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March 20, 2008
Group launches stop-hate campaign
PROVIDENCE -- Advocacy groups and legislators today announced a campaign against hate and hate speech in Rhode Island that will call on all Rhode Islanders to participate.
The initiative was prompted by a recent incident involving a Providence storeowner who demanded to see Social Security cards of two Spanish-speaking customers, then threatened to call immigration authorities after they did not.
State Sen. Juan Pichardo, one of the speakers today, said, “All this hate speech -- we need to stop this wave. It is not the America we pursue …”
Miguel Sanchez-Hartwein, executive director of the Center for Hispanic Policy and Advocacy, said the campaign will involve educational forums at universities, schools, businesses and other settings, and a petition that he asked all Rhode Islanders to sign.
-- Journal staff writer Karen Lee Ziner
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How does a guy asking people for Social Security cards translate to hate speech? What he did was stupid, but a Philadelphia pizza shop owner just this week won the right to serve only people who speak English. What I "Hate" are the people who use this to advance their cause, when no problem exists. It's great that the Projo assigned their resident Ethnic Scholar, Ms. Ziner, to cover this in a fair and equitable fashion, as she always does.
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