August 8/30: Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day Rally

3pm Boston Common, Food, speakers, music

August 8/30: Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day Rally
3pm Boston Common, Food, speakers, music

Join the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society, friends and allies to REMEMBER SACCO AND VANZETTI this August 30th.

Meet at 3pm at Parkman Plaza (near the Boston Common visitor center, at Park Street across the street from West Street) to hear speakers bring to life the times and tribulations of Sacco and Vanzetti’s generation, and to highlight the common threads between movements and struggles then and today. We’ll have light food, music, and a marching band for a short march.

In 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were judicially murdered by the state of Massachusetts. These two Italian immigrants, workers and anarchists both, dedicated their lives to lighting the way toward a world free from capitalist exploitation and oppression under authoritarian governments. After a long and thoroughly unjust trial, where they were convicted of murder and robbery, the two men were electrocuted on August 23rd. Their funeral procession was the largest gathering in Massachusetts until 2002, and their words and bravery inspired generations of people across the planet to struggle for a better future. Sacco and Vanzetti died hopeful, knowing that people like you would continue their fight.

Authoritarian governments continue to murder and beat down the weak, vulnerable, and marginalized, specifically targeting foreign-born workers, and reserving special vitriol for political idealists with dreams of a better world.

Since 2006, the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society has held annual events to carry on the memory and dreams of Sacco and Vanzetti. For the past two decades, we have worked with current social movements to highlight the connections between the struggles of a century ago and today. On Sunday August 30 at 3pm, help us to continue our tradition of fighting for freedom today by standing on the foundations laid by yesterday’s revolutionaries.

We still have a few slots open for speakers who can connect Boston’s history of radical movements and state repression to today’s struggles, and are looking for other volunteers and sponsors. To get involved, contact us at: committee@saccoandvanzetti.org