Thirty years later, we need to prevent future Greensboro massacres

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. We need to recall it so something like it never happens again. On the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, at the corner of Carver and Everitt streets in Greensboro, N.C., 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis took out shotguns and automatic weapons from the trunks of their cars and opened fire on black, white and Latino anti-Klan demonstrators and union organizers who had gathered at Morningside Homes, a black housing project. The KKK and Nazi members shot at anyone who wasn't hiding while four television news teams and one police officer recorded the action. The murderers then got back into their cars and sped away, leaving five people dead and 11 wounded. All five were members of the Workers Viewpoint Organization, and four of them were rank-and-file union leaders and organizers. Let us remember the victims.