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 hectic at our office as the results of more than a year of planning reach fruition.

The subject of treason came up in a rerun of the television series I was watching last week.   Naturally, the heroes got involved in foiling a terrorism plot.  While being given classified government information during a briefing they were told that if they divulge anything about it they would be committing treason.  I didn’t think anything of this at the time, perhaps because recently I’ve heard similar statements on several other TV shows.

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 asked my brother and me to update the manuscript so they could publish a new edition.  We agreed, and so Turkey is now the only country in the world where you can purchase an updated version of We Are Your Sons.

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 been recommended for compassionate release to the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  Lynne, a 73-year-old grandmother is terminally ill with stage IV breast cancer.  Later I heard that although the Warden at her prison had recommended this release, the Federal Bureau of Prisons had denied it.  I don’t know whether she’ll be granted compassionate release any time soon.

On May 2nd the FBI placed Assata Shakur on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list.  Simultaneously the New Jersey State Police increased its bounty on her from one to two million dollars.