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For years beneficiaries and their families have raved about our Attica Prison Visit Program. They’ve described the importance for children of reconnecting with loved ones and the enormous joy the... Read More

Host Kathy Partridge interviews Robert Meeropol on "Connections" on KGNU Community Radio in Boulder, CO, about the connection between his parents and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange; his visit and... Read More

03.07.11

This fall we awarded 69 grants totaling $178,566, bringing the total for our 20th Anniversary year to $350,000. Four are new awards and 65 are renewals.

A stunning legal victory. A joyful family reunion for an activist imprisoned for more than 30 years. And a young activist shares the settlement from her unlawful arrest with other RFC families...

Last October, the RFC hosted our 20th Anniversary Gala in Northampton, MA. The event was fantastic: close to 250 people — traveling from around the region and as far as California — filled the venue... Read More

Thanks to extremely generous support from several foundations and RFC contributors, we are happy to announce that after a three year absence we are re-instituting the Gathering Program!

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and public speaking about the Espionage Act of 1917. I view this law as a lifelong nemesis. My parents were charged, tried and ultimately executed after... Read More

It started when Robert Meeropol posted a blog about how the Espionage Act of 1917 links his parents to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (see Executive Director's report here for related article).

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 By BRIAN STEELE bsteele@repub.com AMHERST - Robert H. Meeropol was 6 years old when his parents were executed as spies. Now he is offering his perspective on WikiLeaks,... Read More

By Tom Sturm January 20, 2011

By SUZANNE WILSON Staff Writer Tuesday, January 18, 2011 NORTHAMPTON - ...Robert Meeropol, executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children in Easthampton, linked the fate of his birth parents... Read More

Published: Monday, January 17, 2011, 3:47 PM Updated: Monday, January 17, 2011, 6:24 PM By Sandra Constantine, The Republican

program: The Digital Divide program date: Fri, 01/14/2011 Rabia Yeaman interviews Robert Meeropol, attorney and the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. We'll discuss the governments attempts to stifle... Read More

The US Espionage Act of 1917 is a threat to an open society; used to send dissenters to prison for voicing their opinions, transforming dissent into treason, argued Robert Meeropol. Will WikiLeak’s... Read More

December 30, 2010- As the Justice Department considers charging WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917, we speak with Robert Meeropol, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg—... Read More

The Espionage Act is a huge danger to our open society; it's been used to send hundreds of dissenters to jail just for voicing their opinions, transforming dissent into treason. December 29, 2010

Raymond Luc Levasseur was a militant activist who was acquitted of sedition during a trial in Springfield in the 1980s. He was convicted on other charges stemming from the Ohio seven's bombing of... Read More