#Sacco & Vanzetti

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Learn about the Sacco & Vanzetti trial. — Read on www.mass.gov/info-details/sacco-vanzetti-the-trial

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti died in the electric chair on August 23, 1927. They were accused of killing two men during an armed robbery.

The trial and subsequent appeals attracted enormous interest internationally, and generated vehement protests. Sacco and Vanzetti were considered to be victims of prejudice against immigrants, Italians, Catholics, and anarchists. John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Bernard Shaw, and Albert Einstein were among those who wrote about the case or signed petitions.

The photo above shows a demonstration in Union Square on the day of the men's execution.

Photo: Everett via Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #Sacco & Vanzetti #protest #demonstration #cause celebre #August 23 #23 August #23 Aug. #Aug. 23 #Union Square #political protest #anarchism

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i love you italian characters that arent associated with the mafia i love you italian characters who arent gangsters i love you female italian characters who arent housewives i love you male italian characters who arent violent i love you italian characters with realistic accents

#did you know that in the early 2000s there were a couple polls conducted #and they found that 78% of teens and 74% of adults think the majority of italian americans are associated with organized crime #did you know that the actual stat for italian americans associated with organized crime is around 1 in 6000 #did you know that hundreds of italian immigrants were arrested for organized crime association with no proof #did you know that teddy roosevelt said the lynching of 11 italian immigrants was “a rather good thing” #do you know who nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti are #idk maybe im dramatic #but its really weird when the majority of peoples first thought when they think about italians is like 10 different mafia movies #or just i cooka da meatball #which is funny when its not the only thing said to you ever upon finding out youre italian #anyways thats just about italian-americans wait til yall hear about what other countries are on #italian

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#columbo #season 3 #any old port in a storm #do you think columbo got really indignant about sacco and vanzetti

[radicalgraff]

Memorial mural of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchists who were executed on the 23rd of August, 1927.

Sacco and Vanzetti were falsely convicted of murder during a robbery they did not commit. Despite one of the largest solidarity campaigns in world history, the men were nonetheless executed simply for their conviction as anarchists.

Both men had made their way to America from Italy. Vanzetti worked as a fishmonger, Sacco was a skilled shoe-maker. Both were unionists, Sacco had been arrested for organising and participating in factory strikes. Despite his radical politics, Saccos boss believed he was such an upstanding man he trusted the anarchist with keys to the factory, and publicly defended the anarchist after his arrest.

The evidence of their innocence was overwhelming. Twelve of Vanzetti's customers testified that he was delivering fish to them at the time of the crime. An official at the Italian consulate in Boston testified that Sacco was there organising a passport at the time of the crime. On top of the facts, a man came forward and confessed to the murder. He was not arrested.

The jury had been hand picked from local members of the Masons and conservative organisations. Before the trial had even begun, the foreman of the Jury, Walter Ripley said “damn them! They ought to hang anyway.”

The judge, Webster Thayer, speaking of Vanzetti said “"This man, although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions." A few days after the death sentence was handed down the judge gloated to a friend “"Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards?"

The international solidarity campaign was incredible. In the UK, the campaign was led by philosopher Bertrand Russel. Even the former Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald expressed his disgust at the case. In the US, socialists and labour leaders like James Cannon and Eugene Debs were major figures in the campaign. Even the conservative AFL-CIO, the major trade union body in the United States supported Sacco and Vanzetti. Hundreds of thousands of workers attended public meetings to hear about the case. Often these were broken up by police, and hundreds more workers ended up in jail just for supporting the campaign. In Argentina direct actions by anarchists were undertaken against the US embassy, and the anarcho-syndicalist FORA organised large demonstrations in support of the anarchists. Despite all the public pressure, tragically appeal after appeal was rejected. Finally on 23rd of August, 1927 the anarchists were executed by the electric chair.

After the anarchists met their deaths there was an explosion of outrage across the world. The US embassy in Paris was surrounded by tanks to protect it from an angry crowd of protestors. A riot in London resulted in 40 injuries, the US Consulate in Geneva was surrounded by a 5,000 strong crowd, while huge crowds wearing black armbands marched in Boston and New York.

The brave pair met their deaths with honour. They were aware that the struggle for their freedom had inspired hundreds of thousands around the world. As Vanzetti said “If it had not been for these things… i might have died unmarked, unknown a failure. Now, we are not a failure… This is our triumph. Never in our full lives could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as we now do by accident. Our words - our lives - our pains, nothing! The taking of our lives - the lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler - All! That last moment belongs to us.

That agony is our triumph!”

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La Morte Legale (2018) Silvia Giulietti, Giotto Barbieri

#film #video #streaming #completemovie #mubi #documentary #la morte legale #silvia giulietti #giotto barbieri #sacco e vanzetti #giuliano montaldo #bartolomeo vanzetti #nicola sacco

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#id in alt text #Super mario #Super. Mario Sunshine #Sacco and Vanzetti #nintendo

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Ennio Morricone w/ Joan Baez - Sacco & Vanzetti LP

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Joan Baez - Sacco & Vanzetti, 1971.

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All-time favorite fact about my birthday is that it's European ~Respect & Equality For Persons With Disabilities Day or something to that effect (did not read the little blurb about it in English and don't know what the EU's official language of declaration/ratification was so unsure if the person-first language was translator's intervention), but in Poland and Poland only, it is also. Respect and Equality for Intellectually & Developmentally Disabled People Day. Poland said you have to be nice and respectful to Raya on their birthday because they are autistic about Poland, specifically

#Poland made that day for me. It's to celebrate me actually #My birthday is also Marx's birthday and Napoleon's yahrzeit comma something I think about all the time #And the first time fingerprint evidence was used to convict someone in a court of law #And the day Sacco & Vanzetti were arrested #Red letter day for the 20th century consolidation of the prison-industrial complex and the post-WWI phenomenon of biometric data #To enforce the law & also enforce borders #& this is of course inextricable from the high-profile trial of two immigrant anarchists #friend said whenever I learn new information I integrate it into a Structure very systematically and I build connections out of the #Structure and she is right. I see it in my head like a constellation diagram but there's no border it's points that connect in various ways #It's geometry basically #Vogel was right about Cubo-Constructivism as the legend of the age #I need to learn more math so I can model connections between concepts as unstable Shapes

[ilfascinodelvago]

Dov’è il rispetto per la vita umana? 

Dove sono il rispetto e l’ammirazione per la dignità e la bontà della natura umana?

#sacco e vanzetti #dignità #il fascismo è reato

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927)

 «Remember, Dante, remember always these things; we are not criminals; they convicted us on a frame-up; they denied us a new trial; and if we will be executed after seven years, four months and seventeen days of unspeakable tortures and wrong, it is for what I have already told you; because we were for the poor and against the exploitation and oppression of the man by the man.» – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, from The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, Edited by Marion Denman Frankfurter and Gardner Jackson, The Viking Press / The Vanguard Press, New York, 1928-1930, p. 323

(image: Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)

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La notte del 23 agosto 1927, dopo sette anni di estenuanti processi, i due migranti italiani Nicola Sacco e Bartolomeo Vanzetti vennero ammazzati sulla sedia elettrica a Dedham, nel Massachusetts.

La loro ingiusta esecuzione innescò rivolte popolari in varie città d'Europa.

Giusto 50 anni dopo, il 23 agosto del 1977, il governatore Michael Dukakis avrebbe assolto i due anarchici italiani dal crimine che gli era stato attribuito.

#vanzetti #sacco #sacco e vanzetti #a #anarchia #anarchici #errori giudiziari #pena di morte #stati uniti #sedia elettrica #esecuzione capitale

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Was just minding my business listening to assorted Wes Anderson soundtracks, now I’m crying bc of Joan Baez’s beautiful song for Sacco and Vanzetti:

Here’s to you, Nicola and Bart

Rest forever here in our hearts

The last and final moment is yours

That agony is your triumph.

For more on the tragedy of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:

#joan baez #Sacco and Vanzetti #Nicola Sacco #Bartolomeo Vanzetti #here’s to you Nicola and Bart #weeping #communism #socialism #red scare #20th century #1920s #protest music #anarchist #Spotify