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DESCRIPTION:LISTEN to live music while you \nWATCH a silent film and then\nENJOY a 
 feature film about lefties.\nRadical!\n\nThe Feature:  Sacco and Vanzetti 
 (1971)\nThe Silent : Footage from 1920s labor struggles\nThe Music: 
 Anti-capitalist ditties from Puglia and Emilia-Romagna.  Ballads about 
 Sacco and Vanzetti by Woody Guthrie\nThe Musicians: Jewlia Eisenberg and 
 Devin Hoff\n\nTwo musicians avoid rubber bullets at an anti-war 
 demonstration and ask questions.  Why does the left always eat itself?  
 Will revolution come to our shores?  Why do we feel alienated and crabby at 
 a perfectly good demonstration? To build community and have a good time, we 
 decide to make a traveling movie house for the red and the black.  This is 
 a meeting place for the new left and the what’s left, 
 anarcho-syndicalists and leafy Greens, social democrats and democratic 
 socialists.   Guaranteed a popcorn- and politics-filled good time for all. 
 \n__________________________________________________________\n$5-10 Sliding 
 scale.\n\nMORE INFO ABOUT SACCO AND 
 VANZETTI\n\nwww.saccovanzettiproject.org\n \n\nIn 1920, two men were shot 
 dead while carrying the payroll of a shoe factory. The two robbers took 
 cash, got into a car and were driven away. \n\nSeveral eyewitnesses claimed 
 that the robbers looked Italian. A large number of Italian immigrants were 
 questioned but eventually the authorities decided to charge Bartolomeo 
 Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco with the murders. Although the two men did not 
 have criminal records, it was argued that they had committed the robbery to 
 acquire funds for their anarchist worker’s campaign. \n\nThe trial 
 started on 21st May, 1921. The main evidence against the men was that they 
 were both carrying a gun when arrested. Both men had good alibis. Vanzetti 
 was selling fish in Plymouth while Sacco was in Boston with his wife having 
 his photograph taken.  \n\nThe judge, Webster Thayer, announced at the 
 beginning of the trial that he would “hang the anarchist bastards.”  He 
 refused to acknowledge the confession of the Morelli gang—the people who 
 actually committed the robbery.  \nVanzetti and Sacco were accused of 
 unpatriotic behaviour by fleeing to Mexico during the First World War. The 
 trial lasted seven weeks and on 14th July, 1921, both men were found guilty 
 of first degree murder and sentenced to death. \n\nTheir conviction 
 resulted from prejudice against them as anarchists and as Italian 
 immigrants. \n\nVanzetti commented to a journalist: "If it had not been for 
 this thing, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to 
 scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are 
 not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life 
 can we hope to do such work for tolerance, justice, for man's understanding 
 of man, as now we do by accident. Our words - our lives - our pains - 
 nothing! The taking of our lives - lives of a good shoemaker and a poor 
 fish peddler - all! That last moment belong to us - that agony is our 
 triumph. On 23rd August 1927, the day of execution, over 250,000 people 
 took part in a silent demonstration in Boston.  \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/26473.php
SUMMARY:Radical Film Series #3
LOCATION:Temescal Arts Center \n511 48th  @ Telegraph 
 \nOakland\nwww.temescalartscenter.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/26473.php
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