Juan Crow Grows More Violent: Latino Activists Face Death Threats in Georgia [View All]

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Atlanta Latino
News Report
Judith Martínez-Sadri
Posted: May 25, 2008

... Less than a week after Rich Pellegrino called a group of human rights organizations together to protest the sale of a racist T-shirt, he received a shocking death threat at the door of his home ...

Threats against immigrant advocacy groups are nothing new in Georgia.

E-mails with messages such as, "You belong on a rope,” letters and telephone calls from anti-immigrants, and even protests during events organized by the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), have been directed at GALEO's executive director, Jerry Gonzalez, in the last two years ...

“We’ve been experiencing threats since 2006 when they trashed the mobile unit for Latina Woman's Day," says Gines. "For that reason, we moved from the little house in Norcross to Santa Fe Mall, where there was better security." Gines adds that her organization received four threats during 2006 and 2007. All were reported to the police, but they were unable to turn up any leads ...

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http://ofamerica.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/juan-crow-grows-more-violent-latino-activists-face-death-threats-in-georgia/