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| SACCO AND VANZETTI EIGHTH ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY - Boston, Massachusetts On Saturday, August 24th, Boston will remember the 86h anniversary of the execution of Italian anarchist immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 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) invites all to attend and participate in the eighth annual march and rally. We will begin by gathering at the Boston Common Visitor information Center, on Tremont Street across from West Street, at 2 PM, followed by a march to the North End at 3 PM, and conclude with a rally at 4 PM at the Paul Revere Mall off Hanover featuring speakers and live music. For the eighth year in a row, the SVCS has sought to bring public attention to the wrongful execution of these two Italian immigrant workers in 1927. We call attention to this case in our local history not only out of reverence for Sacco and Vanzetti, but to demonstrate how little things have changed in the 86 years following their execution. Nationalist fearmongering and repression of dissidents is as prevalent today as it was during the Red Scare years in the early 20th century. | ||||
| SACCO AND VANZETTI EIGHTH ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY August 1, 2013 - Boston, Massachusetts On Saturday, August 24th, Boston will remember the 86h anniversary of the execution of Italian anarchist immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 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) invites all to attend and participate in the eighth annual march and rally. We will begin by gathering at the Boston Common Visitor information Center, on Tremont Street across from West Street, at 2 PM, followed by a march to the North End at 3 PM, and conclude with a rally at 4 PM at the Paul Revere Mall off Hanover featuring speakers and live music. For the eighth year in a row, the SVCS has sought to bring public attention to the wrongful execution of these two Italian immigrant workers in 1927. We call attention to this case in our local history not only out of reverence for Sacco and Vanzetti, but to demonstrate how little things have changed in the 86 years following their execution. Nationalist fearmongering and repression of dissidents is as prevalent today as it was during the Red Scare years in the early 20th century. The way in which immigrants workers continue to be rounded up, detained and deported today under the pretext of a War on Terror, a War on Drugs, or simply securing our borders, is eerily similar to the Palmer Raids which targeted radical immigrants in the 1920s. And whereas the overwhelming majority of developed nations have abolished the death penalty, the retention of capital punishment in the United States keeps the U.S. in alarmingly poor company with other countries notorious for human rights abuses. Furthermore, this year we want to once again protest FBI’s continued attacks on muslims, among them a resident of Massachusetts, Tarek Mehana, convicted of aiding terrorists and sentenced to 17.5 years in prison. We demand and end to holding political prisoners in the U.S. More information about the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and the upcoming events can be found at http://saccoandvanzetti.org ### Contact: 617-290-5614 info (at) saccoandvanzetti.org | ||||
| See also: http://www.saccoandvanzetti.org/ | ||||
Sunday, August 18, 2013
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ReplyDeleteSacco and Vanzetti - Guilty
Even though their guilt was known, anti death penalty folks allowed riots and other violence to take place, based upon the fraud of their innocence.
"Sacco and Vanzetti: Guilty After All?"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...
Of all of those proclaiming the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, by far, the most famous was author and activist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair met with Sacco and Venzetti's defense counsel, who told Sinclair that they were both guilty and that he had concocted all the alibis. The letter indicates why Sinclair didn't expose that conversation.
"My wife is absolutely certain that if I tell what I believe, I will be called a traitor to the movement and may not live to finish the book," Sinclair wrote Robert Minor, a confidant at the Socialist Daily Worker in New York, in 1927.
"He also worried that revealing what he had been told would cost him readers. "It is much better copy as a naive defense of Sacco and Vanzetti because this is what all my foreign readers expect, and they are 90% of my public," he wrote to Minor." Even knowing this, Sinclair, published "Boston", a novel which was a novelized version of the Sacco and Vanzetti case and which proclaimed them innocents murdered by the capitalist system - the mantra of leftists supporting S&V.
There was much violence, worldwide, based upon the presumption that both Sacco and Vanzetti were innocents railroaded by the US. Sinclair, as others, throughout, withheld this knowledge. Despicable.
"Sinclair Letter Turns Out to Be Another Expose", Jean O. Pasco, LA Times, December 24, 2005
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/24/local/me-s...
Ideale Gambera, whose father was a Boston anarchist in the 1920s, said there was a strict code of silence to protect the group (anarchists) and hide the nature of their activities. He said his father, Giovanni Gambera, a member of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, told him before he died in 1982 that Sacco was one of the killers."They all lied," said Gambera, a retired English professor living in San Rafael. "They did it for the cause."
Anti death penalty "innocents" executed frauds, as with Sacco and Vanzetti, are quite common.
Please review that case and many others, here:
The Innocent Frauds: Standard Anti Death Penalty Strategy
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-innocent...
more evidence of their guilt, here:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sacc...