Friday, August 23, 2013

SACCO AND VANZETTI EIGHTH ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY
03 Aug 2013
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

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Contact: 617-290-5614
info (at) saccoandvanzetti.org
See also:
http://www.saccoandvanzetti.org/

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