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From the Vault:FTV 0250 Sacco and Vanzetti |
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FTV 0250 Sacco and Vanzetti |
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| Mark Torres |
Pacifica Radio Archives |
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In 2011, the American workforce is reeling from several years of a down-turned economy and Labor issues have moved front and center in the nation's consciousness.
As a wave of conservative politicians were elected into office in 2010 claiming they were the party that would put people BACK to work, ironically, conservative Governors and legislators across the nation are taking the opportunity to balance state budgets by CUTTING the public employee workforce and weakening unions that represent them.
To get a historical perspective on the uneasy relationship between Politics and Labor struggles in America, we turn back the clock almost a hundred years to 1920,
as we present the compelling story of Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case and a Drama, produced by Ed Markman for Pacifica Radio in September of 1990. |
The tale of Sacco and Vanzetti by Ed Markman |
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This week on From the Vault we gain historical perspective on the uneasy relationship between politicians and organized labor in America, turning back the clock almost a hundred years to the 1920's.
At a time when the forty-hour work week was only a dream, the immigrant workforce was feared, and the Courts generally sided with corporate barons, two Italian immigrants named Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for their alleged murder of two men in a robbery of a shoe company in Massachusetts.
Many believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent, and overwhelming evidence suggested the same. The fact that these men held radical political beliefs (they were anarchists) was cited as a reason they were so easily tried, convicted, and put to death.
The case of Sacco and Vanzetti garnered international attention, including an 1927 essay by H.G. Wells, the 1928 Upton Sinclair book Boston, as well as personal appeals from Albert Einstein and George Bernard Shaw.
A massive petition in support of a retrial to introduce new evidence (Celestino Madeiros's murder confession) to the tune of 5 million signatures worldwide found no mercy from presiding judge Webster Thayer, known for his extremely conservative views on free speech (and dislike of anarchists). Judge Webster Thayer quickly refused the retrial, and Sacco and Vanzetti's fate was sealed.
Today, we present the compelling recording Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case and a Drama, produced by Ed Markman for Pacifica Radio in September of 1990. |
Produced and Written by Mark Torres and
Brian DeShazor
The Original 1990 program Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case and A Drama was produced by Ed Markman. |
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| Education/Reference | Politics and Activism | History | Historical | Anarchism | Capitalism | Labor | Socialism | Free Speech | Torture |
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Los Angeles, Pacifica Radio Archives |
2011-02-25 |
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