SACCO AND VANZETTI 3rd ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY (Event Over)

Sacco and Vanzetti
Woody Guthrie

Oh say there, have you heard the news
Sacco worked at trimming shoes
Vanzetti was a rambling man
Pushed his cart round with his hands

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Two good men's a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti are gone
Two good men's a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song

Sacco came from across the sea
Somewhere over Italy
Vanzetti born of parents fine
Drank the best Italian wine

(chorus)

Sacco was a family man
Sacco's wife three children had
Vanzetti was a dreaming man
A book was always in his hand

Sacco made his bread and butter
Being the factory's best shoe-cutter
Vanzetti worked both day and night
Taught the people how to fight

(chorus)

I'll tell you if you ask me
About the payroll robbery
Two clerks were shot in the shoe factory
There in the streets of old Braintree

I'll tell you the prosecutors' names
Katman, Adams, Williams, Kane
Them and the judge were the best of friends
Did more tricks than circus clowns

The judge he told his friends around
"Gonna put them rebels down"
"Anarchist bastards" was the name
The judge he gave these two fine men

(chorus)

Vanzetti docked in '98
Slept upon a dirty street
Taught the people how to organize
Now in the electric chair he dies

All us people oughta be
Like Sacco and Vanzetti
Every day find ways to fight
On the union side for workers' rights

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SACCO AND VANZETTI THIRD ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY

On Saturday, August 23rd, Boston will remember 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) invites all to attend and participate in the third annual march and rally.   We will begin by gathering in Copley Square at 1PM, followed by a march to the North End at 3PM, and conclude with a rally at 5PM at the Paul Revere Mall at 416 Hanover Street featuring a number of speakers, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner.

For the third year in a row, the SVCS has sought to bring public attention to the wrongful execution of the two Italian immigrant workers in 1927.   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 fearmongering and the repression of dissidents is as prevalent today as it was during the Red Scare in the early 20th century.   The way in which immigrants workers are rounded up, detained and deported today 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 majority of developed nations have abolished the death penalty, the retention of capital punishment in the United States keeps the U.S.  in alarmingly poor company with other countries notorious for human rights abuses.

More information about the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and the upcoming events can be found at http://saccoandvanzetti. org