Word: ku
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Last Friday at 12:10 a.m., it was Henry Francis Hays' turn to die. His execution was cause for some self-congratulation in Alabama because, unlike most of those who have been put to death before him, Hays is white. What's more, he is the son of a Ku Klux Klan leader who, the prosecution said, ordered him to lynch a black as a "show of strength" in 1981, after a jury failed to convict a black man accused of killing a white police officer. Hays and a friend snatched 19-year-old Michael Donald off a Mobile street...
More than 10 people picketed in front of the Science Center in an effort to publicize the upcoming trial of three men charged with assault and battery during a Chicago anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in June...
...three anti-Ku Klux Klan activists--Labor Coordinator of the Partisan Defence Committee Gene Herson, Refuse & Resist! supporter Jeffrey Lyons and a young black worker named Dennis Glass--stand trial for the "crime" of protesting against racist Klan terror. They face from one to two years in jail on trumped-up charges of assault and battery stemming from a successful demonstration that turned back a potentially lethal assault by Klan terrorists. This blow against the KKK's racist genocidal designs was a victory for all working people, blacks and minorities...
...June 29, 1996 in Chicago's Daley Plaza, thugs from the Arkansas "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," armed with bolt-studded shields and heavy flagpoles wielded as lances, marched provocatively towards the demonstration of over 100 anti-fascist protesters. After the protesters successfully defended themselves and stopped these lynch-rope terrorists, the Chicago police intervened to return the Klan's weapons to them and then turned to exact revenge against the anti-Klan terrorists...
...Maybe it's some form of rationalization," says Ku. "After being here, you convince yourself you like...