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Robert Meeropol and Jenn Meeropolguardian.co.uk, Saturday 15 June 2013 08.30 EDT

Date: 06/14/2013Contributor: Karen Brown Dateline: Easthampton, MA  

Sam Roberts, Urban affairs correspondent, "New York Times"Posted: 06/12/2013 12:24 pm

By MADELEINE LIST Gazette Contributing Writer Friday, June 14, 2013(Published in print: Saturday, June 15, 2013) EASTHAMPTON — The Rosenberg Fund for Children’s slogan is “carry it forward.” For its... Read More

We’re still feeling the effects of lost sleep, but we’re also basking in the glow of the most dramatically successful program we’ve ever produced.  Sitting in the darkened theater Sunday... Read More

The RFC’s program, Carry it Forward, will take place this Sunday evening, June 16th, just days before the exact date of the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution.  In response to this timing... Read More

Only ten days until Carry it Forward, the RFC’s program at Town Hall in New York City to commemorate the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution, will take place.  It has become extremely... Read More

We Are Your Sons, the book my brother and I published in 1975, was translated into several languages, including Turkish.  Last year the woman who did that translation contacted me again and... Read More

Earlier this week I read that Lynne Stewart, the radical lawyer who is serving a ten-year prison for distributing press releases on behalf of a client who was convicted of terrorist conspiracy, had... Read More

Next week will be a nervous time for me at the RFC because we should receive a flood of ticket orders for our program CARRY IT FORWARD: Celebrate the Children of Resistance.  We’ve been planning... Read More

On Monday, April 22nd, the RFC lost one old friend and I found out about the passing of another.  They are both on my mind.

For the second week in a row I am compelled to write about someone represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and more particularly by my daughter, Rachel Meeropol, who is a senior... Read More

This fall the RFC awarded almost $180,000 to 82 families with 155 children in 23 states and Puerto Rico. Seven are new grants, the remaining 75 are renewal grants to current RFC families. This brings... Read More

I received a moving email early in 2013 from “Amy,” the new RFC contributor (pictured here with her parents in the 1970's), who wanted to explain why she supports the RFC and what this connection... Read More

This is my last report as Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children. When our next newsletter is published in September, Jenn Meeropol, my daughter, will be filling this ­position.... Read More

Sixty years ago this June, a mother and father wrote to their little boys, ages six and 10, for the last time. In that letter from Sing Sing Prison’s death row, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg told... Read More

 In January, Trevor Aaronson, a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, published The Terror Factor: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on... Read More

Guest blog by Amber Black, RFC Public Relations & Technology Coordinator With panels like, “Anarchy and Democracy: What’s the Difference?” and “State Repression of Social Movements in the U.S.... Read More