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On this day, 13 August 1973, five Black pro-independence activists were sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences in the US Virgin Islands. After the killing of eight US tourists on a Rockefeller-owned golf course, Fountain Valley, US colonial authorities rounded up dozens of Black people, and viciously tortured five of them to try to extract confessions. Although the jury was deadlocked following the trial, nine jurors testified that during deliberation they were threatened with FBI investigations on themselves and family members. The judge, formerly Rockefeller's private attorney, and lawyer for the golf course, refused to declare a mistrial in order that the jurors could be compelled to deliver guilty verdicts. One of those convicted, Ishmael LaBeet (pictured), later hijacked a plane while being transferred to a different prison and flew it to Cuba where he was jailed for a period but released. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8457/fountain-valley-five-convicted To support our work, join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory

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. Heyer 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. Then-president Donald Trump described some of the neo-Nazis as "very fine people". Over the next few years, over 100 other vehicular attacks took place, mostly targeted at Black Lives Matter protesters, killing several and injuring dozens. Republican lawmakers responded by attempting to introduce laws to legalise attacks, or prevent lawsuits against attackers who killed protesters with their vehicles in at least 15 states, successfully introducing them in states such as Florida, Iowa and Oklahoma. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376/heather-heyer-murdered Learn more about US white supremacists and their relationship with the state in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/insurgent-supremacists-the-u-s-far-right-s-challenge-to-state-and-empire-matthew-n-lyons

Indiana, like its adjoining neighbors, consumed 20 million acres of forestland before 1870 with only axes, grubbing hoes, horses, and oxen. Men carried the fallen trees on handspikes or rolled them into heaps in ravines, where they were set ablaze. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, thousands of fires burned night and day for months on end, turning the skies sallow. Before the conflagration, these forests had provided an unsurpassed hunting area that had drawn the Iroquois south and eastern villagers like the Delaware and Abenaki west to the Ohio River valley. The original 20 million acres of primeval forest that once covered Indiana was nearly enough to encircle the globe one and a quarter times in a mile-wide band. Today, scarcely enough old-growth forest remains to cover the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the same one- mile width. Early Anglo-Americans did to this region what is presently occurring in the tropical forests of Brazil, Borneo, Sumatra, New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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