happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)

Subject: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 09:27 AM

In spite of solid and unchallenged alibis, Sacco & Vanzetti were executed 8/23/1927. The State maintained they "were morally guilty because they are the enemies of our existing institutions."

[Well, we have the right to protect ourselves, don't we?]

          I was right there in Boston the night that they died.
          I never did see such a sight in my life:
          I thought the crowds would pull down the town
          And I was hoping' they'd do it and change things around.
  
                  "Red Wine," W Guthrie

Nicola Sacco b4/22/1891,
Bartolomeo Vanzetti b6/11/1888

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Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: GUEST,Barrie Roberts
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 11:41 AM

As a dedicated anarchist I've always been a great admirer of Sacco & Vanzetti, but if memory serves me right Upton Sinclair's marvellous book about the case is called 'Boston -- August 22nd' Or am I wrong?

Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 12:09 PM

Yes, the book is BOSTON, a wonderful piece of writing.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 12:39 PM

Posthumous pardons from Gov. Dukakus in 1977.

Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:25 AM

Sacco and Vanzetti

Old MC thread with the lyrics to Andy Irvine's beautiful 'Facing the chair'.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 07:22 AM

Sadly, it only brought home to me that where clashes of the rich and the poor are concerned, it is usually only in fiction that the evil are punished and the good are rewarded. Perhaps that is what accounts for the popularity of fiction.

Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: GUEST,Barrie Roberts
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 10:11 AM

Mark --- Good to hear from another Upton Sinclair admirer. Wasn't it Bernard Shaw who said, 'When people ask me about the times through which I have lived, I direct them to the books of Mr Upton Sinclair'?

Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 23 (Sacco & Vanzetti)
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 01:37 PM

Thurber's (? I think it's Thurber) play, "The Male Animal" is an instance of the defense of Sacco & Vanzetti, and of academic freedom, freedom of speech, "Americanism, other good stuff--all hidden in the guise of a comedy about marriage and romance. May be a bit fluffy for serious anarchists, tho'.    Tw