Big Think, “5 flavors of anarchy”
byIt may come as a surprise to some to find that anarchism comes in as many flavors as Ben ‘n Jerry’s. Anarchists are often…
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Salon, “Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global fallout still matters”
byBut fairly soon, it emerged that the two men were not anyone’s idea of typical bandits. Rather, they were active in Italian anarchist circles…
JSTOR Daily, “Is There a Place in Public History for Sacco and Vanzetti?”
byThe case slowly grew into an international cause célèbre. Sacco and Vanzetti were avowed anarchists, devoted to the idea of destroying all government. They…
Huffington Post, “Sacco, Vanzetti, and Mary Dyer”
byToday, August 23, marks the 90th anniversary of the deaths by execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and self-avowed anarchists…
Tablet Magazine, “Dear Antifas: A Note About Your Ancestor”
byTresca was the Cold War anarcho-syndicalist. He was a super-radical who, even so, did not remove himself from the larger American system. My old…
The Atlantic, “Why Liberalism Disappoints”
byFrankfurter worked tirelessly to save the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti from the accusations that sent them to death row. He eloquently transformed their fate…
Smithsonian Magazine, “The Biggest Trial of the 1920s Continues to Resonate”
byBoth men were involved with a direct-action anarchist movement, the same group that was later blamed for the 1920 Wall Street bombing while they…
The Boston Globe, “This day in history”
byIn 1921, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham of murdering a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and…
WNYC, “Muslim New Yorkers Now Have Someone Watching the Cops Who Watch Them”
byAs detailed in the book about post-9/11 Muslim surveillance, Enemies Within by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, the NYPD has long investigated specific communities: Italians and…
The Western News (MT), “Libby middle school students hold mock trial”
byThe trial the students prepared was the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born American anarchists accused of murdering two people during an…