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08/23/07
Sacco & Vanzetti Died for Your Sins
80 years to the day.
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.
source http://www.utne.com/issues/200.....630-5.html
Film Reviews: SACCO AND VANZETTI
By Staff, Utne Reader, July / August 2007 Issue
(First Run Features; on DVD)
Considered enemies of the state, railroaded by the U.S. justice system, and declared guilty of crimes they did not commit, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927, but their story resonates powerfully today. Peter Miller’s penetrating investigation into the famous murder case that centered on the two Italian anarchists–”terrorists” of the 1920s–reveals the bogus evidence against them and the xenophobia and jingoism that contributed to their deaths by electric chair. Borrowing clips from Giuliano Montaldo’s 1971 classic movie of the same name and structured like a historical courtroom exposé, the film also shows Sacco and Vanzetti–via letters read aloud by actors John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub–as thoughtful and passionate champions of the dispossessed. While the staid storytelling may not live up to the duo’s revolutionary ardor, Sacco and Vanzetti painfully conveys the all-too-frequent evisceration of the nation’s ideals during wartime. -Anthony Kaufman
Also, hear this on National Public Radio:
SOURCE http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....d=13890458
New Book, Film Explore Sacco and Vanzetti Case
by Karen Grigsby Bates
Day to Day, August 23, 2007
On this day in 1927 80 years ago, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants for the murder of two payroll clerks that the men insisted they didn’t commit. The executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti were considered a travesty. A new book and documentary draw parallels to our feelings about immigration then and now.
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