News & Events
For Love and Liberty
Blog Post
[guest post by RFC founder, Robert Meeropl]
For Love and Liberty, a collection of photographs of Tom Manning’s paintings was released last week. I was eager to see the finished product. I have a… Read More
Seeger Fest Photo Essay
Blog Post
From July 17th-21st, 2014, thousands of people came together at locations around New York City and NY state to take part in Seeger Fest, a celebration of the lives, work, activism and music of… Read More
Five-Day Seeger Fest Steps Off July 17th, Includes Livestreaming 7/20
Blog Post
[guest post by Amber Black, RFC Communications Director]The five-day, multi-city Seeger Fest, honoring Pete and Toshi Seeger and created by their grandson Kitama Cahill-Jackson, with help from Gina… Read More
The RFC Community Remembers June 19, 1953
Blog Post
This June 19th was the first anniversary of my grandparents’ executions I observed as the Executive Director of the RFC. While I’ve been here for other anniversaries, this was the first time… Read More
June 19, 2014
Blog Post
My grandparents were executed 61 years ago today. In their final letter to my father and uncle they wrote they “were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after us.” (Click… Read More
Carrying it Forward at Left Forum 2014
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[guest post by Amber Black, RFC Communications Director]
From indigenous artists using hip hop and digital media to fight colonization, to how the War on Terror is criminalizing entire communities;… Read More
RFC Sponsors Seeger Fest
Blog Post
I am thrilled to announce that the RFC will co-sponsor Seeger Fest (www.seegerfest.org), a five day celebration (July 17 – 21) of the lives, work, activism and music of Pete and Toshi Seeger.
See Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Rosenberg/Meeropol family members, and others on screen in Berkeley May 14th and NYC May 31st in CARRY IT FORWARD: Celebrate the Children of Resistance
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In the next few weeks, the RFC will bring our CARRY IT FORWARD: Celebrate the Children of Resistance film to both the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. Coming up first is the west coast… Read More
Robert Meeropol, former chief of Rosenberg Fund for Children in Easthampton, to be honored
Press Coverage
By Lu FeorinoApril 18, 2014
EASTHAMPTON — The Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild plans to honor Robert Meeropol, former executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children in… Read More
Why I’ve Served on the RFC Board for Almost Two Decades
Blog Post
[Guest blog by Rafael Rodríguez Cruz]
As I read the Winter/Spring issue of Carry It Forward, I realized that I have been a member of the RFC Board for almost 17 years. I still remember my first… Read More
Finding Community in Difference
Blog Post
My book group almost exclusively reads fiction; usually political fiction, often written by women.
Grants Top $5 Million!
Newsletter
This fall the RFC awarded over $165,000 to 62 families to aid 131 children, plus two group grants supporting dozens of additional families and youth. Six are new awards, the remaining 58 are renewal… Read More
Executive Director's Report: Long-Term Aid is Vital
Newsletter
2013 was a milestone year at the RFC. In addition to transitioning the leadership of the organization from our founder, my father Robert Meeropol, to me, we also commemorated the 60th anniversary of… Read More
Carry it Forward in YOUR Town
Newsletter
“Riveting…fabulous…informative…moving.”
“This film was powerful because it put words to names, faces to words. I felt that we heard the story from the source.”
“It made me think about paying more… Read More
New Named Fund Celebrates Parents' Activism
Newsletter
I am delighted to announce the creation of the Moish and Lillian Antopol Fund which will provide significant annual support for “the children of targeted activists who face the unintended… Read More
News from Our Community
Newsletter
Many RFC beneficiaries and their families are living through heart-wrenching circumstances as the activist parents wage daunting struggles for social and environmental justice. However there are… Read More
CARRY IT FORWARD film premiere, January 12th, 2014
Blog Post
Thanks to all who joined us on January 12, 2014, for the premiere screening of CARRY IT FORWARD: Celebrate the Children of Resistance. This 90-minute film presented a condensed version of the June… Read More
The Knowledge That Others Will Carry On
Blog Post
(This guest post by RFC founder and former executive director, Robert Meeropol, originally appeared on his Still Out on a Limb blog at www.robertmeeropol.com/blog.)
In her final hours my mother,… Read More
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