For the Fifth time the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society will march and rally to remember Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, their lives, their struggle and their martyrdom.
We are calling people to start gathering at Copley Square, Boston, by the water fountain, at 2pm. We will start marching at 3pm towards the North End for a rally at the Paul Revere Mall at 4pm. All individuals and organizations are welcome to bring your own signs and slogans.
This year a candlelight memorial for Sacco and Vanzetti will be held beginning at midnight Sunday, August 22, in Charlestown, close to the actual site of the executions and at the same time they occurred. Bunker Hill Community College now stands where most of the old prison once stood. The memorial will begin at the corner of New Rutherford Avenue and Austin Street, at the Austin St Bridge [known formerly as the Prison Point Bridge.] Selections from the letters of the two men will be read during the vigil.
BOSTON/North End - August 22, 2010. – Despite steady rain, approximately 40 people came out Sunday afternoon to the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration’s Society 5th annual rally and march to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the 1927 executions of Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
The rally began in Copley Square and included a speech by labor and immigrant rights activist Sergio Reyes, as well as performances of songs about various political struggles. An hour into the rally, flanked by Boston police officers, the group began a march through the streets of Boston to the North End’s Paul Revere Mall. Participants held anarchist banners, waved black and red flags and played commemorative music from a cart. Reyes remained in front with a bullhorn, periodically shouting “Sacco and Vanzetti” with the crowd responding “Presente!”
The Sacco and Vanzetti Association will commemorate Sacco and Vanzetti Day with a vigil for human rights on Monday, August 23rd, 8PM at Torremaggiore. In particular the Association will concentrate on demanding that the Italian government allow the reentry into Italy of a nigerian national, Faith Aiworo. Faith Aiworo, 23 years old, was arrested and deported from Italy to Nigeria, her country of origin. She now risks death by hanging, in contempt of the Geneva Convention and international agreements regulating humanitarian protection and aid. During the vigil there will be a table with information about the rights of immigrants and the case of Faith Aiworo. The event will end at the monument to Sacco and Vanzetti erected on the Torremaggiore cemetery.
On Sunday, August 22nd, in Boston, the 83rd anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be remembered. They were two Italian immigrants and committed anarchists whose trial is regarded as one of the great miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants and radicals, the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society (SVCS) invites all to attend and participate in the fifth annual march and rally.
Are you tired of dragging the weight of the rich on your backs? Sick of watching our families, friends, and neighbors struggle while the big banks and corporations get bailouts? Fed up with the government punishing you for the mistakes of the powerful?
On May 1st, we say No More! Together, we can dump the bosses!
Join the Black and Red Anti-Authoritarian, Anti-Capitalist Contingent. Meet at 11am at the Rose-Kennedy Green Way at Hanover St, in the North End of Boston.
(This is an article that appeared on the Boston Globe on April 14, 2010)
BRAINTREE — Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Frederick Parmenter, Alessandro Berardelli: four names forever linked by tragedy 90 years ago.
Yet to most, only Sacco and Vanzetti are immediately recognizable, as the Italian immigrants convicted of an armed robbery and brutal double murder that took place April 15, 1920, in South Braintree Square.
History has not determined definitively whether the two were convicted and executed based on hard evidence or bias. They were foreigners, draft dodgers, and self-proclaimed anarchists as America was still reeling from the horror of World War I. To this day, some people still believe testimony that might have cleared the pair was never introduced at their trial.
Cultural celebration with food & drinks, political updated, information about Tarek Mehanna, and of course, socializing.
Laila Murad will provide an update on Tarek Mehanna’s case, followed by an open mike.
So, if you have anything on your mind you’d like to say in terms of event announcements, political and social struggles you participate on, recite a poem, or just want to sing an inspiring song or two, here’s your chance. Bring your ideas, your voices, musical instruments, and good cheer to the Community Church of Boston this Saturday at 7:00pm.
The Church is located at 565 Boylston Street, Boston, opposite Copley Square.
For information on Tarek Mehanna’s case go to freetarek.com
For information on the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society go to www.saccoandvanzetti.org
Friday, March 12, 2010 -- 7PM
Community Church of Boston -- 565 Boylston St., Boston
Program: Short video, a presentation by an anarchist activist and a socialist activist, music, and a lively debate to understand the revolutionary message of Howard Zinn.
Sponsored by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, BAAM, ABC, Community Church of Boston, Mass. Global Action, Socialist Party, Boston May Day Committee, Stop the Wars Coalition, and all those who fight against capitalism and for a better society.
27/01/2010 - The last time we interacted directly with Howard Zinn was June 11, 2009 when a small crew of young and old volunteers invaded his personal home to record his views on the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Among the crew was Bob D'Attilio, "Mr. Sacco & Vanzetti" as Howard used to call him and Fred Clow, our very active retired photographer and member of the Society. Not long before that, Howard Zinn had lectured on the Meaning of Sacco & Vanzetti for the SVCS at the Dante Alighieri Center, where he said that he was surprised to see so many people interested in the subject matter.
Howard Zinn's contribution to the theory of social analisys of U.S. capitalism and working class struggle will definitely outlive him and remain as a tool to understand and change society for a long time.
At the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society, we say raising our fists: "Howard Zinn, presente! Now and forever in the struggle!"
Photo by Fred Clow
To read an article written by the Globe on his death click the title above.
The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society printed a limited amount of buttons with the images of Sacco and Vanzetti, with the text "August 23, 1927" on top and "www.saccoandvanzetti.org" at the bottom. They were first released during the march and rally of last August 23, 2009. The size is 2 inches. The solidarity contribution requested is $3 for both buttons. Please include $.88 for shipping for 2 buttons.
Send us a check or money order to "Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society, PO Box 381323, Cambridge, MA 02238-1323" and we will mail them to you. Thank you!
On August 23, 2009 the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society marched for the fourth time on the streets of Boston to remind people of how justice was crucified in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The slogans, "Sacco and Vanzetti, presente!, Mumia Abu Jamal, presente, Leonard Peltier, presente, Puerto Rican political prisoners, presente, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, presente!" resounded on the streets of Boston.
For the third time, the Boston City Council passed a resolution introduced by Councilors Chuck Turner and Charles Yancey designating August 23rd. as "Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day" in the City of Boston.
Sunday, August 23rd Gather at 2pm at Copley Square Water Fountain in Boylston Street to march to the North End
Rally at the Paul Revere Mall, 416 Hanover Street, North End, Boston, MA 02113 - 4pm
RAIN LOCATION: Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
Sponsored by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society
Endorsed by:
- Mass. Global Action
- Boston May Day Committee
- BAAM
- Community Church of Boston
- NEFAC
- Job with Justice Massachusetts
- Dr. James D. Cockcroft, Ph.D., State University of NY
- Radio Free Maine
- Roger Leisner, Videographer
- 492 Cafe
- Boston Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
- Socialist Party Boston
- Prison Book Project (Amherst, Mass.)
- Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights
- AK Press
- Lucy Parsons Collective
To read the full text of the Boston City Council Resolution designating August 23rd. "Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day in Boston" click here.
On November 7, 2008, the noted historian and activist Howard Zinn offered a lecture on “The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti” at the Dante Alighieri Society Italian Cultural Center, in Cambridge, MA. Nearly 250 people attended the event, sponsored by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society (SVCS) and graciously hosted by the Dante Alighieri Society.
Historian Bob D'Attilio started the program with notes about the funeral procession that took place in Boston in August 1927. The procession started in the North End and ended at the Forest Hill Cemetery, where the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti were cremated. D'Attilio's narration accompanied film footage from the procession. Later on actor and film maker David Rothauser introduced Zinn's lecture with readings from the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti. David Rothauser is the writer/producer of the docudrama, "The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti" aired on WGBH-TV in 2004 and 2005.
To see a low definition 35-min Windows media format video of Howard Zinn's lecture click here.
The noted historian and activist Howard Zinn will give a lecture on “The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti”, Friday, November 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm, Dante Alighieri Society Italian Cultural Center, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born immigrants, workers, and anarchists, who were tried and convicted in 1921 for the armed robbery and murder of two payroll guards. After 7 years of legal appeals and international protest, the two men were finally executed on August 23, 1927 in Boston for a crime that many felt they did not commit and by a judicial system that was patently biased and unjust. In his lecture Howard Zinn will indicate the relevance of the Sacco and Vanzetti Case for America today.
David Rothauser will introduce the lecture with readings from the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti.
On Saturday, August 23rd, Boston remembered the 81st anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and committed anarchists whose trial is widely regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants and radicals, the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society (SVCS) gathered in Copley Square at 1PM, followed by a march to the North End at 3PM, which concluded with a rally at 5PM at the Paul Revere Mall, 416 Hanover Street featuring a number of speakers, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, Pasqualino Colombaro, Dorotea Manuela, and Molly Adelstein.
Councilor Turner presented the SVCS with an official proclamation passed by the Boston City Council declaring August 23, 2008 Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day in the City of Boston. To see the resolution click here.
The march also counted with the distinguished participation of the Emperor Norton Stationary Marching Band, which contributed beautiful music to the march.
For a video already published in YouTube see below:
02/12/2007 - Nearly 40 people braved the Boston cold on Saturday, December 1st. 2007, to unveil and rededicate a historical marker for Sacco and Vanzetti in the North End. The plaque was reinstalled at 256 Hanover Street, the place where the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee functioned from 1925 to 1927. An original plaque had been installed there in 1976, during the bicentennial of the U.S. independence, as part of the Freedom Trail. Early in the 80s, however, the plaque disappeared. The Sacco and Vanzetti Society formed this year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti decided to correct this situation and now there is a new plaque in place with the original wording and marking as it was in 1976.
To view a Windows Media video (9mb) of the event click here.
Pictured is Jake Carman from the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement
On November 5, 2007 the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park, built on top of the "big dig", was officially opened to the public. The opening ceremony was attended by Governor Deval Patrick and Senator Edward Kennedy. According to the note in The Globe, "The North End park opened on Monday during a ceremony, which took part on the south side of Hanover Street between Cross Street and the Surface Artery.
The Greenway is named after Sen. Kennedy’s mother, who died in 1995 at the age of 104. Rose Kennedy grew up in the North End. One year after her death, the then-Gov. William Weld signed legislation naming the Greenway in her honor."
A timeline of historical events are contained in a series of plaques. One of them refers to the wrongful execution of anarchist labor organizers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The plaque reads:
1927
On August 23, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for a 1920 robbery and murder. The men claim to be victims of prejudice against radicals and immigrants. Many prominent intellectuals campaign unsuccessfuly for a retrial. One hundred thousand people visit the bodies at Langone Funeral Home on Hanover Street. In 1977, Governor Michael Dukakis exonerates them proclaiming that the case should be pondered "by all who cherish tolerance, justice and human understanding." (Photo by Frederick G.S. Clow)
A low-definition video of the march in Boston to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is available now on this website. This video is in windows media player format only. If you would like to have a copy of the video in DVD please email info[@]saccoandvanzetti.org (don't use the brackets in the address). Please be adviced that the size of the file is 53 megabytes.
30/08/2007 - Amidst a seeming wave of domestic terrorism, the 1920 murder of two payroll guards in Braintree, Massachusetts, exploded into what could arguably be described as the trial of the century. Earlier that year, a plot had been exposed in which thirty bombs, disguised as free samples from the Gimbels department store, had been sent to such pillars of American capitalism as J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, as well as to U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer was responsible for the prosecution and deportation of thousands of radicals, including labor organizers, peace advocates, and other “undesirables.” Although the plot had not succeeded for lack of sufficient postage, in the resulting atmosphere of shock, fear, and repression, two working-class Italian Americans with anarchist connections, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, were not only accused of the crime, but also became scapegoats in the reaction to the supposed threat of the combined forces of labor unrest, new waves of immigration, and the advance of the “red menace” that followed the end of World War I.
This exhibition both commemorates the eightieth anniversary of the execution of the much-mythologized “good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler,” and celebrates the 1967 installation of the Ben Shahn mural at the heart of the Syracuse University campus. It is not our purpose to determine the guilt or innocence of the defendants in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Rather, we wish to highlight not only the creative response to the perceived injustice of the prosecution and sentence, but also the decades of continuing protest over what Katherine Anne Porter described as “the never-ending wrong.”
25/08/2007 - Continuing with the program designed by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society a group of talented artists presented their work in homage to Sacco and Vanzetti, executed by the State of Massachusetts 80 years ago. The event took place at the Community Church of Boston, at its main room where the bas-relief of Sacco and Vanzetti is proudly displayed. ...
The Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty (MCADP) marked the eightieth anniversary of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, on August 23, 2007 with a program that begun at 11:00 a.m., in front of the Paul Revere statue (in the Prado) at the Paul Revere Mall, Hanover Street in the North End.
Speakers included Former Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Robert Meeropol (Ethel & Julius Rosenberg's son), Robert Renny Cushing, and David M. Ehrmann. ...
24/08/2007 - A group of about 70 people marched through the streets of Boston yesterday to the chants of "Sacco and Vanzetti: We Will Not Forget!". Carrying banners that made the historical links between the repression and judicial murder of these two anarchist workers in 1927 and the repression today we could see the banners that carried the messages: "You can kill us, but you cannot kill the Idea!, "Stop the raids and deportations!", "Arab workers are not our enemy!", "No worker is illegal!", "Sacco and Vanzetti live!".
21/08/2007 - Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the writer Bruce Watson presented his book "Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind", published by the Penguin Group, from New York. Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, and Yankee magazine. The writer currently lives in Leverett, Massachusetts, although he prided during his talk to "have been born in California".
This Thursday, August 23rd we will march on the streets of Boston to honor the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian workers executed in Boston 80 years ago, wrongfully accused of a crime they did not commit. We will gather in Copley Square at 3:00 PM at the sound of music of struggle and street theater. Then, we will march at 4:00 PM down Boylston Street, Washington Street, and Hanover Street. We will stop at 256 Hanover Street to affix a replacement for a historical marker pointing to the location of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. We will continue then toward the Langone Park in Commercial Street. There we will hold a rally. Boston City Councilor Felix Arroyo will present the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society with a City Council resolution acknowledging the significance of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The following organizations (in alphabetical order) endorsed the actitivies to commemorate Sacco & Vanzetti's 80th anniversary of their wrongful execution:
- AK Press
- Anarchist Archives Project
- Boston Anarchist Black Cross
- Boston Anti Authoritarian Movement - BAAM Boston
- Boston May Day Coalition
- Cape Cod Resistance
- City Life / Vida Urbana
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) - Boston Chapter
- Mass. Global Action
- Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights
- reVoltairine (Western Massachusetts)
- Satewide Harm Reduction Coalition (SHaRC)
- Socialist Alternative
- Stop the Wars Coalition
- The Anarchist Communist Union of Boston
- The Community Church of Boston
- The Lucy Parsons Collective
- Voice of Voiceless Student Club
If you would like to endorse and participate of the August 2008 activities, please send us an email to info [at] saccoandvanzetti.org. Thank you.
Until sometime in the 1980s, a plaque to the right of the entrance to 256 Hanover Street in Boston's North End indicated the former site of the offices of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. The plaque was one of a number of historical markers put up by the City of Boston in 1976 and was located along the Freedom Trail.
This was the text of the plaque:
Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee In may 1920, two Italian immigrants were arrested for the murder of two payroll guards in South Braintree. A group of friends and fellow anarchists organized a defense committee for the accused men, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. For the next seven years the committee struggled to free the two, whose cause became a passionate controversy the world over. In 1925, the committee moved to upstairs rooms at 256 Hanover Street, where the drama intensified. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in 1927, but theirs is "the case that will not die."
For the Fifth time the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society will march and rally to remember Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, their lives, their struggle and their martyrdom.
The Sacco and Vanzetti Association will commemorate Sacco and Vanzetti Day with a vigil for human rights on Monday, August 23rd, 8PM at Torremaggiore. In particular the Association will concentrate on demanding that the Italian government allow the reentry into Italy of a nigerian national, Faith Aiworo. Faith Aiworo, 23 years old, was arrested and deported from Italy to Nigeria, her country of origin. She now risks death by hanging, in contempt of the Geneva Convention and international agreements regulating humanitarian protection and aid. During the vigil there will be a table with information about the rights of immigrants and the case of Faith Aiworo. The event will end at the monument to Sacco and Vanzetti erected on the Torremaggiore cemetery.
Fellow Workers!
(This is an article that appeared on the Boston Globe on April 14, 2010)
Friday, March 12, 2010 -- 7PM
27/01/2010 - The last time we interacted directly with Howard Zinn was June 11, 2009 when a small crew of young and old volunteers invaded his personal home to record his views on the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Among the crew was Bob D'Attilio, "Mr. Sacco & Vanzetti" as Howard used to call him and Fred Clow, our very active retired photographer and member of the Society. Not long before that, Howard Zinn had lectured on the Meaning of Sacco & Vanzetti for the SVCS at the Dante Alighieri Center, where he said that he was surprised to see so many people interested in the subject matter.
The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society printed a limited amount of buttons with the images of Sacco and Vanzetti, with the text "August 23, 1927" on top and "www.saccoandvanzetti.org" at the bottom. They were first released during the march and rally of last August 23, 2009. The size is 2 inches. The solidarity contribution requested is $3 for both buttons. Please include $.88 for shipping for 2 buttons.
On August 23, 2009 the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society marched for the fourth time on the streets of Boston to remind people of how justice was crucified in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The slogans, "Sacco and Vanzetti, presente!, Mumia Abu Jamal, presente, Leonard Peltier, presente, Puerto Rican political prisoners, presente, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, presente!" resounded on the streets of Boston.
Sunday, August 23rd
On November 7, 2008, the noted historian and activist Howard Zinn offered a lecture on “The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti” at the Dante Alighieri Society Italian Cultural Center, in Cambridge, MA. Nearly 250 people attended the event, sponsored by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society (SVCS) and graciously hosted by the Dante Alighieri Society.
On Saturday, August 23rd, Boston remembered the 81st anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and committed anarchists whose trial is widely regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants and radicals, the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society (SVCS) gathered in Copley Square at 1PM, followed by a march to the North End at 3PM, which concluded with a rally at 5PM at the Paul Revere Mall, 416 Hanover Street featuring a number of speakers, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, Pasqualino Colombaro, Dorotea Manuela, and Molly Adelstein.
02/12/2007 - Nearly 40 people braved the Boston cold on Saturday, December 1st. 2007, to unveil and rededicate a historical marker for Sacco and Vanzetti in the North End. The plaque was reinstalled at 256 Hanover Street, the place where the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee functioned from 1925 to 1927. An original plaque had been installed there in 1976, during the bicentennial of the U.S. independence, as part of the Freedom Trail. Early in the 80s, however, the plaque disappeared. The Sacco and Vanzetti Society formed this year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti decided to correct this situation and now there is a new plaque in place with the original wording and marking as it was in 1976.
On November 5, 2007 the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park, built on top of the "big dig", was officially opened to the public. The opening ceremony was attended by Governor Deval Patrick and Senator Edward Kennedy. According to the note in The Globe, "The North End park opened on Monday during a ceremony, which took part on the south side of Hanover Street between Cross Street and the Surface Artery.
A low-definition video of the march in Boston to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is available now on this website. This video is in windows media player format only. If you would like to have a copy of the video in DVD please email info[@]saccoandvanzetti.org (don't use the brackets in the address). Please be adviced that the size of the file is 53 megabytes.
30/08/2007 - Amidst a seeming wave of domestic terrorism, the 1920 murder of two payroll guards in Braintree, Massachusetts, exploded into what could arguably be described as the trial of the century. Earlier that year, a plot had been exposed in which thirty bombs, disguised as free samples from the Gimbels department store, had been sent to such pillars of American capitalism as J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, as well as to U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer was responsible for the prosecution and deportation of thousands of radicals, including labor organizers, peace advocates, and other “undesirables.” Although the plot had not succeeded for lack of sufficient postage, in the resulting atmosphere of shock, fear, and repression, two working-class Italian Americans with anarchist connections, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, were not only accused of the crime, but also became scapegoats in the reaction to the supposed threat of the combined forces of labor unrest, new waves of immigration, and the advance of the “red menace” that followed the end of World War I.
25/08/2007 - Continuing with the program designed by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society a group of talented artists presented their work in homage to Sacco and Vanzetti, executed by the State of Massachusetts 80 years ago. The event took place at the Community Church of Boston, at its main room where the bas-relief of Sacco and Vanzetti is proudly displayed. ...
The Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty (MCADP) marked the eightieth anniversary of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, on August 23, 2007 with a program that begun at 11:00 a.m., in front of the Paul Revere statue (in the Prado) at the Paul Revere Mall, Hanover Street in the North End.
24/08/2007 - A group of about 70 people marched through the streets of Boston yesterday to the chants of "Sacco and Vanzetti: We Will Not Forget!". Carrying banners that made the historical links between the repression and judicial murder of these two anarchist workers in 1927 and the repression today we could see the banners that carried the messages: "You can kill us, but you cannot kill the Idea!, "Stop the raids and deportations!", "Arab workers are not our enemy!", "No worker is illegal!", "Sacco and Vanzetti live!".
21/08/2007 - Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the writer Bruce Watson presented his book "Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind", published by the Penguin Group, from New York. Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, and Yankee magazine. The writer currently lives in Leverett, Massachusetts, although he prided during his talk to "have been born in California".
This Thursday, August 23rd we will march on the streets of Boston to honor the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian workers executed in Boston 80 years ago, wrongfully accused of a crime they did not commit. We will gather in Copley Square at 3:00 PM at the sound of music of struggle and street theater. Then, we will march at 4:00 PM down Boylston Street, Washington Street, and Hanover Street. We will stop at 256 Hanover Street to affix a replacement for a historical marker pointing to the location of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. We will continue then toward the Langone Park in Commercial Street. There we will hold a rally. Boston City Councilor Felix Arroyo will present the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society with a City Council resolution acknowledging the significance of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Until sometime in the 1980s, a plaque to the right of the entrance to 256 Hanover Street in Boston's North End indicated the former site of the offices of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. The plaque was one of a number of historical markers put up by the City of Boston in 1976 and was located along the Freedom Trail.
