Last week I concluded a blog I wrote about the Occupy Wall Street movement with a modest proposal. I wrote:

I woke up at 4:00am one morning this week thinking about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. It was less than 24 hours after I learned that the New York City police had evicted all those camped in Zuccotti Park. OWS has been full of surprises, but why was I not shocked by the wave of evictions sweeping the country, and why had the initial spark of the September protest in that park set off a nationwide firestorm?

A year ago we reported in our newsletter that a young activist, who was 14 in 2002 when she was illegally arrested at a protest, decided to donate a significant portion of the compensation she received. The donor, now in her 20’s, wrote: “Naturally some of the settlement needs to go back into the activist pot.”

Recently, we received a second very generous donation from another protester who received similar reparation. She wrote:

In our last newsletter I wrote about the rising tide of new applications we’ve been receiving at the RFC this year. I noted that this was not surprising given a number of factors, including the growing number of those arrested at protests in each year since Obama took office. I wrote:

During the mid-1970’s I traveled to Philadelphia while I was engaged full-time in the effort to reopen my parents’ case. A very young, African-American radio journalist interviewed and provided me a platform to discuss my parents’ frame-up. We agreed about so many things that the show became more of a discussion than an interview. At the end of the show he posed a question I had been asked many times before: if I thought a judicially sanctioned, politically motivated killing - like my parents’ execution - could happen again in this country.