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”.
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Since the white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville that killed Heather Heyer and injured 30 others four years ago today, fascists & far-right bigots have murdered at least 971 others & injured 3347 more in over 2000 attacks around the world.
In 2017 we launched The International Violent Hate Crimes Research Project to track hate-motivated and far-right violence around the world. We are the only research project that attempts to document all of this globally.
You can read our timelines and reports (and help us continue & expand our research) with the link above.
In the wake of the 2017 Charlottesville attack, the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund stepped in to help two of the survivors who’d given up receiving help from others who talked a big game but came up well-short when they were needed.
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