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Howard Zinn's autographs WTC7 info card at event listed below.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Cambridge

HOWARD ZINN: THE MEANING OF SACCO AND VANZETTI

The noted historian and activist Howard Zinn will give a lecture on "The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti." David Rothauser will introduce the lecture with readings from the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born immigrants, workers, and anarchists, who were tried and convicted in 1921 for the armed robbery and murder of two payroll guards. After 7 years of legal appeals and international protest, the two men were finally executed on August 23, 1927 in Boston for a crime that many felt they did not commit and by a judicial system that was patently biased and unjust. In his lecture Howard Zinn will indicate the relevance of the Sacco and Vanzetti Case for America today. Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and eventually received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught as a tenured professor at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He has received among others, the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award.

David Rothauser is the writer/producer of the docudrama, "The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti" aired on WGBH-TV in 2004 and 2005.

The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society, the sponsor of this event, seeks to preserve the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti and to honor their efforts in trying to radically change the society they lived in. We wish to bring out their place in the history of radical Massachusetts, to help draw useful connections between the struggle of Sacco and Vanzetti and similar struggles today, and to inform our community about their living legacy, We stand against the death penalty, the persecution of political dissidents, as well as the persecution and scapegoating of immigrants. We hope that by raising a monument to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston's North End, a bronze bas-relief by the American sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, the same Borglum noted for his iconic sculptures of four American presidents in the hills of South Dakota, we can keep these issues fresh in the minds of our city, our state, and our nation.

Free admission. Discussion and coffee to follow the lecture. Donations for a Sacco Vanzetti Memorial Monument to be placed in Boston's North End will be gratefully accepted.

7PM
Dante Alighieri Society Italian Cultural Center, 41 Hampshire Street

The Dante Alighieri Society is conveniently located near Kendall Square, on the corner of Hampshire Street and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue. The Kendall Square / MIT stop on the MBTA Red Line is within ten minutes walking distance from the Center. Limited parking is available.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

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• wearechange.org
• infowars.com
• trueworldhistory.info

[Harpakhrad11]

It would seem to me, Zinn is engaging in psychological evasion brought on by the anxiety over his position in academia. I don't know the man, but that is my guess.

[Harpakhrad11]

While 9/11,(which has been used to initiate two wars, eroded valuable civil liberties, and brought about the restructuring of the contemporary worlds most powerful organization) well, that is not important at all.

[Harpakhrad11]

So, let me get this strait; a murder trial that happened 80 years ago is important enough to warrant songs, poems, books, annual lectures, to many books to mention, a local organization established in their remembrance, and a seemingly endless number of articles in syndicalist periodicals.

[ConspiracyNut]

wow, newjackoff, you don't have a girlfired, a freind or a hobby either? Like I said, you are a loser just like me.  I bet you like with your mom work a mcdonald's too! good thing the turth moove-ment has people like us!!

[Ecothearcy]

its made to be a dead end so u fools still keep talking about jfk 1963. why not set up a lincoln was killed by an inside jon group?

[newjack31622]

har har har! that was almost funny you you friggin sheep. baaaaaa, baaaaaaa. question though. what does it say about the guy who goes to the effort to make a youtube account to "bash" people who question the official 9/11 story? bit too much time on your hands there huh lemming? need a girlfriend? a friend? a hobby? poor guy.....

[ConspiracyNut]

rite-on newjackoff31622. you and me are just a like, both total dumfuks, but we kno 91/11 was an onside job becuz we sawr it on the internet. what more do you need. time for a revolushun of the dumfuks!

[10thave]

one big whopping plate of fail, truthers

[newjack31622]

typical hero worship from another lemming. seriously kid, try thinking for yourself and stop letting Lord Chomsky and Zinn do your thinking for you. does the term "steam valve effect" mean anything to you? you fall for it, it should. besides, Zinn flip flopped on this issue after the Chomskyites got to him. he endorsed 3 of Griffins 9/11 truth books before lemmings like you got to him and told him its a "waste of time". was your hero Zinn wrong when he did that? or is he wrong now? hmm....

[11SeptInsideJob]

Zinn is a gatekeeper & a fool to say that 9/11 is a dead end & it doesn't matter who really murdered JFK & perpetrated 9/11!!!