A-Infos (en) US, Boston, Anarchist journal BAAM #13 - Third Annual Sacco and Vanzetti Parade by The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society

Lessons from Beyond the Grave: Sacco and Vanzetti Case Still Relevant Today
On Saturday August 23, Boston remembered the 81st anniversary of the execution 
of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and committed 
anarchists 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) 
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, featuring a number 
of speakers, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, Pasqualino Colombaro, 
May Day's Dorotea Manuela, and BAAM/LPC's own Molly Adelstein.

    Councilor Turner presented the SVCS with
an official proclamation passed by the Bos-
ton City Council declaring August 23, 2008
Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day in
the City of Boston.
    The march counted the distinguished par-
ticipation of the Emperor Norton Stationary
Marching Band, which contributed beauti-
ful music and garnered much attention from
passer-bys. The march also marked the One-
year anniversary of the release of the first is-
sue of the BAAM Newsletter, and this year
BAAM members distributed around 400
copies of Issue #12 to bewildered onlookers
along the route to the North End.
    We invoke our local history not only to
remember Sacco and Vanzetti, but also to
demonstrate how little has changed in the 81
years following their execution. Nationalist
fear-mongering and the repression of dissi-
dents are as prevalent today as it was during
the Red Scare in the early 20th century. To-
day, the method in which immigrant workers
are regularly detained and deported under the
pretext of a War on Terror, a War on Drugs
or securing our borders, is eerily similar to
the Palmer Raids targeting immigrants in the
1920s. And while the overwhelming major-
ity of developed nations have abolished the
death penalty, the retention of capital punish-
ment in the United States keeps the U.S. in
alarmingly poor company with other coun-
tries notorious for human rights abuses. For
the third year in a row, the SVCS sought to
bring public attention to these wrongs in hope
for a better tomorrow.

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