Fire and Flames

Today marks a new anniversary of the states legal lynching of Sacco and Vanzetti. The state crucifying anarchists is however under no circumstances a phenomenon purely of the past. In Greece, Thodoris Iliopoulous remains in jail, the final prisoner of those arrested during last Decembers uprising. He is currently on hunger strike, and this Monday will mark the 45th day. At least in one German city, Hamburg, a „kundgebund“ is planned as part of the international day of solidarity with him…

Montag, 24.08.09 – 20:00 Uhr
Solidaritätskundgebung Valentinskamp / Neue ABC- Straße
Click here for more infos about his case.

On Sunday, in Boston…

Endorsed by:

- Mass. Global Action
- Boston May Day Committee
- Boston Anarchists Against Militarism
- Community Church of Boston
- Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists-Boston
- Job with Justice Massachusetts
- Dr. James D. Cockcroft, Ph.D., State University of NY
- Radio Free Maine
- Roger Leisner, Videographer
- 492 Cafe
- Boston Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
- Socialist Party Boston
- Prison Book Project (Amherst, Mass.)
- Murder Victims‘ Families for Human Rights
- AK Press

More info: http://www.saccoandvanzetti.org/

Here is a video of last years demonstration:

I have to say, old school as I am, I like the „aesthetic“ of the demonstrations more the way we used to organize them in Boston. You know, something like this…

:-)