Honoring Sacco & Vanzetti in a Time of Heightened Repression In Cambridge

 

Honoring Sacco & Vanzetti

in a Time of Heightened Repression

This year marks the 91st anniversary of the August 23, 1927 execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both immigrant working-class activists and anarchists. We call your attention to two events being held next week in their honor. On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, the Sacco Vanzetti Commemoration Society and the Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge, will host "We Still Remember… A look at the case that rocked Boston and the world from 1920-1927." 7:00 p.m. at the Dante Alighieri Auditorium at 41 Hampshire St. Cambridge, MA 02139

Rare film footage of the funeral  LA MARCIA DEL DOLORE (The March of Sorrow)  Reading from Bartolomeo Vanzetti's  Events and Victims edited by Jon Curley  Readings from a new novel  The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti by David Rothauser    Public discussion and commentary led by  Gov. Michael Dukakis  Mining the Archives: in the Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti  Prof. Michele Fazio  Music inspired by the story of Sacco and Vanzetti  Jake and the Infernal Machine