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We are on Facebook  The year 2007 marked the 80th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The previous year, 2006, a dedicated group of activists carried out a parade from the Stony Brook Park in Jamaica Plain to the Forest Hills Cemetery where the bodies of Sacco & Vanzetti were cremated after their execution. (To watch a 5-min clip prepared by RAI TV Italy click here.) We will be out on the streets of Boston every year around August 23 and besides marching and demonstrating we hope to establish the foundation for a monument to Sacco and Vanzetti in the North End of Boston. Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society Mission The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society exists to preserve the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti's struggle to radically change society. We want to educate our neighbors about Massachusetts' radical history, and draw connections between the struggles of Sacco and Vanzetti and similar struggles today. We stand against the death penalty and political persecution as well as the persecution and scapegoating of immigrants. |
Remember Sacco and Vanzetti Author Catherine Marenghi will be reading from her novel "Our Good Name" at this year's commemorative event sponsored by the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society, August 23rd at 7 pm (EST) held both in person at the Community Church of Boston and virtually on Zoom. Other speakers include Governor Michael Dukakis; Michele Fazio, Professor of English; Ed O’Keefe, member of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation; Virginia Pratt of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Sage Carbone of the Cambridge City Growers; and Jake Carman, founding member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society. David Rothauser will also read from his novel, The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Leonard Lehrman will present excerpts from Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti. A memorial tribute to Fernanda Sacco is also planned.
Gathering on August 21st. and mixed in-person/virtual program August 23rd.
 Maria Fernanda Sacco (1932-2022)  Monday, August 23rd at 7PM On-line round table discussion with: Stephanie Schorow, Stephanie E. Yuhl, Michele Fazio, Adrienne Naylor Co-sponsored by The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and The Community Church of Boston Live broadcast: CCB YouTube Channel Request Zoom link at info@saccoandvanzetti.org Video Recording of Memorial Celebrating the Life of Bob D'Attilio 04/06/2021 [NEWS] - For those who couldn't attend the memorial for Bob D'Attilio, here is the video recording of the nearly 2 hour event. Some of the participants include Gov. Michael Dukakis, Judge Peter Agnes, writer Luigi Botta, novelist Joseph Torra, musicians Jake Carman and Charlie King, Dean Stevens from CCB, labor organizer Pasqualino Colombaro, Pat Zoffreo, Prof. Michele Fazio, playwrighter David Rothauser, and Leonard Lerhman.
This year’s event was co-sponsored by the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and the Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge and featured former governor Michael Dukakis, who spoke on the challenges immigrants have faced throughout American history, Professor Michele Fazio, who spoke on mining archives for materials related to the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, and David Rothauser, who read selections from his own and Vanzetti’s writings. A short film of the funeral, narrated by Bob D’Attilio, was also shown. Music was provided by Jake and the Infernal Machine. Sacco and Vanzetti, a radical commemoration at encuentro5, saturday, August 25, 7pm. 9A Hamilton Place, Boston (near Park St. T station)
The Sacco Vanzetti Commemoration Society With The Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge Present We Still Remember… A look at the case that rocked Boston and the world from 1920-1927. Dante Alighieri Auditorium 41 Hampshire St. Cambridge, MA 02139 PRESENTATIONS: LA MARCIA DEL DOLORE (The March of Sorrow) rare film footage of the funeral of Sacco and Vanzetti Public discussion and commentary led by Gov. Michael Dukakis Readings from the only fiction of Bartolomeo Vanzetti Events and Victims edited by Jon Curley Mining the Archives: in the Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti Prof. Michele Fazio Readings from a new novel The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti by David Rothauser Music inspired by the story of Sacco and Vanzetti Jake and the Infernal Machine Download flyer here. On the 90th Anniversary of their Execution: We Remembered Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston!
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Sunday, August 27,2023, 2-4 PM at the Paul Revere Mall, North End, Boston. We will remember the lives, struggles and death of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the electric chair at the Charlestown State Prison on August 23, 1927.
Ricardo Flores-Magon was born September 16, 1873 in San Antonio Eloxochitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. He dedicated his life to the causes of freedom and social change to favor the poor in Mexico. In that struggle he became an anarchist, and advocated for the elimination of capitalism and the state. He was a revolutionary writer and journalist. Flores-Magon spent a significant amount of his life in prison and died, probably murdered, in a prison in the United States, Leavenworth, Kansas. He died November 21, 1922.
07/29/2022 [NEWS] - Maria Fernanda Sacco, great-niece of Nicola Sacco, died on July 3, 2022. An active member of Amnesty International and an honorary member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Association located in Torremaggiore, Italy, she worked alongside activists, filmmakers, and scholars to preserve the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. Her unwavering passion contributed to the development of both local and international events in the fight against the death penalty and the struggle for social justice, resulting in numerous appearances at conferences and community events. In 2010, she published I miei ricordi di una tragedia familiare (My Memories of a Family Tragedy). In her words, remembering Sacco and Vanzetti "can tell us about the ideals destroyed by an intolerant society" (213). She believed in a future where younger generations could raise their voices to live in a world without discrimination.
05/30/2022 [NEWS] - On Sunday, June 12 at 11AM EDT, Community Church of Boston will host a program of songs in memory of Sacco, Vanzetti and the Rosenbergs. Soprano Helene Williams and tenor Christopher Remkus, will be accompanied by Leonard Lehrman. Included in this program there will be excerpts from what Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) called his magnum opus, the opera SACCO AND VANZETTI.
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01/17/2021 [MUSIC] - To listen to the song in Soundcloud 
12/05/2020 [DOCUMENTS] - Bob D’Attilio’s (*) name was so closely associated with the names of Sacco and Vanzetti and the Italian anarchists of Boston that anyone doing serious research on the subject was almost obligated to get in contact with him. His vast knowledge of the case was only surpassed by his devotion to collecting and preserving everything related to the case and the Italian anarchists to which the two men were so closely connected. This knowledge and devotion made Bob an invaluable resource in exploring every facet of the history surrounding Boston at the time. It was natural that when the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society was forming, Bob was asked to join. 
11/26/2020 [DOCUMENTS] - The news came suddenly and contained the rituality of those compassionate words that leave a lump in your throat and prevent you from going further: Bob D’Attilio is dead. He left suddenly, in silence and solitude, found lifeless in the apartment where he lived alone, in a town on the outskirts of Boston. This was news that leaves you speechless, communicated almost in a whisper by a mutual friend, Jerry, one of the members of the "Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society" of Boston, with which I maintained collaboration, fruitful and constant, which has lasted since the foundation of the Society in 2007, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution of Nick and Bart. No other details of Bob’s death are known.
We are glad to present (space permitting) music dedicated to the memory and the struggle of Sacco and Vanzetti. We encourage musicians to send us their original work regarding this matter. In the case of published and available material for distribution we might include a few representative songs from the album and point the reader to the place where they can obtain the album, if available. The struggle and the ultimate assassination by the state of Sacco and Vanzetti on August 23, 1927 has inspired musicians to write songs about them throughout the world. We know that they continue to inspire musicians today.
08/18/2020 [MEETINGS] - A live video conference presentation, Sat. Aug. 22, 2020 at 7 PM
04/19/2020 [DOCUMENTS] - It’s a tough time in America right now. No one’s disputing that. But it was a tough time a hundred years ago as well, especially for immigrants and civil liberties.
04/19/2020 [DOCUMENTS] - April 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the crime that propelled Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti into the international media spotlight: the robbery and double murder at the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company Factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Arguably the most famous criminals tried in the 20th century, in a trial that incited a flurry of debates over the manipulation and use of insufficient evidence, questionable testimony, and ethnic bias against defense witnesses, Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty and spent seven years in jail until their execution on August 23, 1927.
"Sacco & Vanzetti: Stories of Italian immigration in the United States." Documentary screening, panel discussion, and songs & music, May 11, 2019 from 3-8 p.m. at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center, 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge. Free admission.
"Sacco and Vanzetti" and "The Internationale", two films by director Peter Miller. Saturday, February 23, 2019 - 1:00 PM, at the Somerville Library, 79 Highland Avenue, Somerville.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 6PM-8PM
07/20/2017 [PHOTOS] - In 2016, the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society discontinued its traditional march and rally. We held our first indoor event instead. The venue allowed us to have an on-going slide show of a series of 50 pictures, from the past and the present, depicting the trial and execution and resulting solidarity for Sacco and Vanzetti. The slide show is set to advance by itself every 15 seconds. If you would rather have a static pdf file, we also include it here. The selection and captions were made by SVCS member, Jerry Kaplan.
Lorenzo Tibaldo has written three books on the Sacco and Vanzetti. His most recent one, just published, is Mussolini e il case Sacco-Vanzetti put out by Claudiana publishing. The book details Mussolini’s attitude towards the anarchists using unpublished documents and correspondence from the Italian Embassy in Washington to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome from November 1921 to August 1927. The book includes photographs and copies of documents, including a handwritten letter from Mussolini to the American Ambassador in Rome regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti case. All three books are in Italian.
In 2016, in spite of our difficulties we still managed to remember and honor the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. Instead of our traditional march and rally, we held an indoor event, featuring Robert Knox, author of “Suosso’s Lane” (2015). Bob D'Attilio, from our Society made a historical introduction, and we enjoyed music by Jeffrey Panettieri and Jake and the Infernal Machine. In the pictures from top to bottom, Jake, Bob, two pictures of writer Knox and lastly, Jeff performing music from Italy. Our thanks to Encuentro5 for providing the venue for this event. The struggle continues.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 – 7PM
The primary sources for this bibliography have been the WorldCat database, Anne Folger Decker's extensive bibliography, and the Anarchist Archives Project collection. Other sources have included bibliographies from a number of books and searches on the internet. Source(s) for entries are available upon request.
