4th Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial March and Rally, August 23, 2009

north america / mexico | anarchist movement | anarchist communist event Monday August 17, 2009 20:24 by Jake - Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society

4TH SACCO AND VANZETTI MEMORIAL MARCH AND RALLY, AUGUST 23, 2009

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Start assembling at 2pm in Copley Square Water Fountain on Boylston Street
March towards the North End at 3pm
Rally at 4pm in the North End's Paul Revere Mall, 416 Hanover Street, Boston, MA 02113

On August 23, 2009 the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society will march for the fourth time on the streets of Boston to remind people of how justice was crucified in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

For the third time, the Boston City Council has passed a resolution introduced by Councilors Chuck Turner and Charles Yancey designating August 23rd. as "Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day" in the City of Boston.

Prof. Howard Zinn summarized the importance of actively remembering the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti as follows: "The case of Sacco and Vanzetti revealed, in its starkest terms, that the noble words inscribed above our courthouses,'Equal Justice Before the Law', have always been a lie. Those two men, the fish peddler and the shoemaker, could not get justice in the American system, because justice is not meted out equally to the poor and the rich, the native born and the foreign born, the orthodox and the radical, the white and the person of color. And while injustice may play itself out today more subtly and in more intricate ways than it did in the crude circumstances of the Sacco and Vanzetti case, its essence remains."

This case touches upon many of our contemporary struggles against the war, for migrant workers rights, for freedom of expression, against the oppression of the state, for equal justice for all, against racism, against the death penalty, for the radical change of society, but above all for human rights and human dignity.

All are invited to participate.

Endorsed by:

- Mass. Global Action
- Boston May Day Committee
- BAAM
- Community Church of Boston
- NEFAC-Boston
- Job with Justice Massachusetts
- Dr. James D. Cockcroft, Ph.D., State University of NY
- Radio Free Maine
- Roger Leisner, Videographer
- 492 Cafe
- Boston Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
- Socialist Party Boston
- Prison Book Project (Amherst, Mass.)
- Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights
- AK Press