News & Events
These kids singing made us feel better this week
Blog Post
It’s been an ugly, painful week marked by multiple, high profile hate crimes around the country. Unfortunately, this is not an aberration but a continuation of assaults that have intensified since... Read More
Bequests Can Help Fund Our Future
Newsletter
In their final letter to my father and uncle, my grandparents wrote that they were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after them.
Nearly $200,000 Awarded as Requests Pour In
Newsletter
NEW GRANTS
Dad Targeted while in Sanctuary $5447 for computer equipment, sports programs and summer camps for four children, ages nine to 19, whose father is an immigrants’ rights leader. Since being... Read More
Artist Partnerships Continue in 2018
Newsletter
2018 is shaping up to be another year of fruitful connections with generous, progressive artists. Over the summer RFC supporters in Brooklyn hosted a benefit featuring music by Grammy-nominated... Read More
Remembering the Rosenbergs in Havana
Newsletter
On June 19th, 2018, a crowd gathered at the memorial to the Rosenbergs in Havana, Cuba to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the couple’s execution. A singer performed a rendition of Ethel and... Read More
Another World is Possible
Newsletter
Who are the children of resistance receiving support from the RFC today? They’re preschoolers crying at night, separated from their immigrant parents. They’re youth protesting the people and policies... Read More
Family Separations Hit Close to Home
Newsletter
by Executive Director Jenn MeeropolImages of small children in cages, crying for their parents or holding signs protesting a parent’s detention or deportation flooded my email and social media this... Read More
Abel Meeropol & "Strange Fruit"
Blog Post
Last fall the RFC was a sponsor of the first-ever Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award presented by Straw Dog Writers Guild to poet Patricia Smith. The Guild was co-founded by my mother, Ellen... Read More
No Family Separations
Blog Post
A few weeks ago I received an email from a former RFC beneficiary who I’ve stayed in touch with over the years. She contacted me to respond to the blogs my dad and I wrote about our thoughts on the... Read More
Finally Seeing Angels in America
Blog Post
Last week Angels in America closed after a triumphant, award-winning revival on Broadway, more than a quarter century after it first took the theater world by storm. During Angels’ first Broadway run... Read More
The Legacy of Family Separation
Blog Post
Images of small children in cages, crying for their parents, have flooded my email and social media. I’m saddened and enraged as a human being, and as a US citizen I’m appalled by what the government... Read More
On the 65th anniversary of my grandparents' executions
Blog Post
On today’s anniversary of my grandparents’ execution, I’m thinking about two-year-old Angel and his big brother Bryan, who don’t understand why they can’t live with both parents anymore.
I am the granddaughter of a political prisoner (guest blog from an RFC beneficiary)
Blog Post
My name is Jaya and I am the granddaughter of a political prisoner who has been incarcerated my whole life. I am a junior in high school and this is my first year of homeschooling. I love to learn... Read More
Kathleen Chalfant Joins the Advisory Board
Newsletter
We’re thrilled to welcome the newest member of our Advisory Board, actress Kathleen Chalfant. Among her many honors and notable roles in theater and television, Kathleen was nominated for a Tony... Read More
Uncertainty Ahead
Blog Post
2017 was a painful, exhausting year. Wide-spread resistance beat back some of the more egregious assaults on human and civil rights—challenging the Muslim ban, stopping attempts to repeal the... Read More
See You Soon!
Newsletter
The RFC will be on the road in 2018, hosting events around the country. Once again we’re teaming up with generous activist artists to raise funds while we entertain and educate about our work. [Check... Read More
Uncertainty Ahead
Newsletter
2017 was a painful, exhausting year. Wide-spread resistance beat back some of the more egregious assaults on human and civil rights—challenging the Muslim ban, stopping attempts to repeal the... Read More