The Lessons of Sacco and Vanzetti

In These Times | April 1, 2007| | Copyright

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The Lessons of Sacco and Vanzetti

THIS YEAR MARKS the 8oth anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Convicted of a double murder after a notoriously corrupt trial, the anarchists went to their deaths maintaining their innocence.

Director Peter Millers new documentary Sacco and Vanzetti follows the men's lives from their arrival in America to their infamous journey through the U.S. justice system during the '20s red scare.

Throughout their trial, they held to the paradoxical ideas that had guided them as activists. As the film's narrator puts it, "They ...

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