Taken from today's Working Class History Instagram Post

On this day, 12 August 2017, 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather was one of thousands of people protesting against a Unite the Right rally of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists and antisemites, when she was hit by a car driven at speed deliberately into the crowd by a 20-year-old Nazi, who was pictured previously on the Unite the Right protest holding a shield emblazoned with the logo of Vanguard America, a far right group. Elsewhere in the city, another group of fascists attacked and viciously beat DeAndre Harris, a young Black education worker, leaving him with spinal and other injuries. President Donald Trump said some of the neo-Nazis were "very fine people".

I'm sure for many of us, it felt like the death of Comrade Heyer was a pivotal moment in our understanding of the fight against fascism. We knew who'd be on the streets to fight, who would be out there against us, and most importantly, who would not be there at all. There's still that danger for standing opposed to fascism, but we fight, because we have to, because the violence will be there regardless, because not everyone can, or not everyone will. It's the only check against the coming tide of fascism.

And thanks to @marxisthayaca for suggesting this, I'll include their whole post here.

Could you link to her funeral service: https://youtu.be/CAoqhV48Avg. The stories memorializing our comrade, need to live on.

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I was going to go with a different topic today, but this seemed more relevant, and it was about another passing. But I'll save it for a later date. I'm also announcing a special Mega coming up!