|
|
|
PHOTOS [PAST] Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day in Boston, 2008 On Saturday, August 23rd, 2008, Boston remembered the 81st anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The crowd 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.
[PAST] December 1, 2007 Re-Dedication of Historical Plaque at 256 Hanover Street, Boston 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.
Photos from the August 23-25, 2007 Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Events 28/08/2007 - These photos captured the spirit and attendance to the events organized by the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society from August 23rd to August 25th. They are presented as they have been sent to us by different photographers.
The First Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Parade, Forest Hills 2006 These are pictures of the first S&V Parade, which took place in Jamaica Plain on Sunday, August 27, 2006. People gathered under the rain at the Stony Brook Park for a rally. The speakers included mostly young people who either read poems, the writing of Sacco and Vanzetti from prison, or presented reports on their own struggles. The Boston May Day Coalition contributed Jesse Diaz, an immigrant rights leader from Los Angeles, who made the connections between repression of immigrants in the days of Sacco and Vanzetti and now. Jesse was one of the organizers of the successful May Day demonstration in Los Angeles, which gathered more than half a million people demanding immigrant rights. The parade went through Jamaica Plain to end at the Forest Hills Cemetery, where the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti were cremated after their execution in 1927.
|