Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society

TODAY! PICNIC: Come one, come all and bring some food! Help us remember Sacco and Vanzetti on the anniversary of their ex*****on by the state. 8/23 4-6pm at Constitution Beach, East Boston

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Join us 7/20, 7/27, and 8/3 from 2-4pm to read and discuss Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background by Paul Avrich!

This event is organized by The Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society.

Attending all sessions and reading ahead of time is not required!

Cost: Free

Location: Zoom

An extensive and detailed article was published on the Harvard Crimson, by Olivia Pasquerelle last February 13, 2025. She conducted extensive interviews with members of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and the Community Church of Boston, including me.

Interestingly, quite a few things were left out:

1. The main objective of the society, to build and establish a monument to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, and why to the day, we have not been able to accomplish that.
2. The role of some councilors of color in the Boston City Council such a Felix Arroyo, Chuck Turner and Charles Yancey in supporting the Society define August 23 as Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Day in Boston, with every marche we organized each year.
3. The Michael Dukakis August 23, 1977 proclamation "to resolve, to prevent the forces of intolerance, fear and hatred, from ever again uniting to overcome the rationality, wisdom and fairness to which our legal system."

All in all, however, I think this is a good article, which in particular has the courage to look inwards on the conservative role of Harvard University in Massachusetts, and promoting the efforts made to learn from our history. The forces of intolerance that Dukakis mention, however, continue to be active and present in particular in the persecution of radical ideas and immigrants of color.

Please read the article and thank Olivia Pasquerella for her writing. Great accomplishment.

They Won’t Let Sacco and Vanzetti Die | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their ex*****ons — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought to disrupt it. In the Community Church of Boston, their memory has found a temporary resting pla...

East Cambridge remembers Sacco & Vanzetti! The Sts. Cosmas & Damian feast carries on traditions built by immigrants like Jenny Salemme, an Anarchist and filodrammatica from Naples whose group was performing in East Boston the day of the Braintree incident. Salemme later made her home in East Cambridge, right around the corner from the feast location.

Thank you to all who came out to remember, to honor, and to build. Last night's commemoration was full of camaraderie, education and a delicious meal shared in the spirit of the revolutionary culture that Sacco and Vanzetti were a part of. We look forward to growing and strengthening relationships with our allies in the struggle for the new world in our hearts. Viva Sacco e Vanzetti! Lunga vita ai ribelli!

Join us next Frday evening!

Long live March 8, International Women's Day!

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.

Speakers, music and more!

Ricardo Flores Magón 100