Note by Hunterbear: I was very much a kid in the mountains of Northern Arizona when I read John Dos Passos' great USA -- the huge 1930 trilogy with the three epochal components: The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen, and The Big Money. I've always remembered much of it and certainly the section, "The Camera Eye [50]," on the massively protested 1927 execution of the two framed-up anarchists -- Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- in Massachusetts. This is a small and appropriate excerpt for this tragic day and era [The Big Money, page 413]:
"They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers [listen businessmen college presidents judges America will not forget her betrayers] they hire the men with guns the uniforms the police cars the patrol wagons . . . . they have built the electricchair and hired the executioner to throw the switch all right we are two nations." =============== Out of that hideous tragedy -- the judicial murder of Sacco and Vanzetti -- as with the execution and imprisonment of the Haymarket martyrs -- came much of the impetus and vision for movements great and massive and good. As Then, so Now. Hunter Gray [Hunterbear] www.hunterbear.org Protected by NaŽshdoŽiŽbaŽiŽ and Ohkwari' In our Gray Hole, the ghosts often dance in the junipers and sage, on the game trails, in the tributary canyons with the thick red maples, and on the high windy ridges -- and they dance from within the very essence of our own inner being. They do this especially when the bright night moon shines down on the clean white snow that covers the valley and its surroundings. Then it is as bright as day -- but in an always soft and mysterious and remembering way. [Hunterbear] _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
