News & Events
Basking in the Glow
Blog Post
We’re still feeling the effects of lost sleep, but we’re also basking in the glow of the most dramatically successful program we’ve ever produced. Sitting in the darkened theater Sunday… Read More
The Final Days of My Parents’ Lives
Blog Post
The RFC’s program, Carry it Forward, will take place this Sunday evening, June 16th, just days before the exact date of the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution. In response to this timing… Read More
10 Days To Go
Blog Post
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… Read More
The FBI Took the Pictures
Blog Post
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… Read More
One Bright Spot
Blog Post
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… Read More
Nervous Time
Blog Post
Next week will be a nervous time for me at the RFC because we should receive a flood of ticket orders for our program CARRY IT FORWARD: Celebrate the Children of Resistance. We’ve been planning… Read More
Goodbye Old Friends
Blog Post
On Monday, April 22nd, the RFC lost one old friend and I found out about the passing of another. They are both on my mind.
Imprisoned for Blogging
Blog Post
For the second week in a row I am compelled to write about someone represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and more particularly by my daughter, Rachel Meeropol, who is a senior… Read More
Activism Skyrockets, RFC Confronts Increasing Need
Newsletter
This fall the RFC awarded almost $180,000 to 82 families with 155 children in 23 states and Puerto Rico. Seven are new grants, the remaining 75 are renewal grants to current RFC families. This brings… Read More
New Donor Honors Family Legacy
Newsletter
I received a moving email early in 2013 from “Amy,” the new RFC contributor (pictured here with her parents in the 1970's), who wanted to explain why she supports the RFC and what this connection… Read More
Executive Director's Report: Goodbye
Newsletter
This is my last report as Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children. When our next newsletter is published in September, Jenn Meeropol, my daughter, will be filling this position.… Read More
June 16: Remember Ethel & Julius and Bid Farewell to Robert
Newsletter
Sixty years ago this June, a mother and father wrote to their little boys, ages six and 10, for the last time. In that letter from Sing Sing Prison’s death row, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg told… Read More
FBI Generated Terrorist Plots
Blog Post
In January, Trevor Aaronson, a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, published The Terror Factor: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on… Read More
Punks & Anarchists Turn Out to Help the RFC
Blog Post
Guest blog by Amber Black, RFC Public Relations & Technology Coordinator
With panels like, “Anarchy and Democracy: What’s the Difference?” and “State Repression of Social Movements in the U.S.… Read More
Helping Activist Parents Protect their Children
Blog Post
Guest blog by Jenn Meeropol, RFC Associate Director
We often talk about the families who receive our grants as part of the “RFC community.” I was reminded of the strength of the connections and… Read More
60th Anniversary Event Progress Report
Blog Post
Since the turn of the year we’ve received an increasing number of inquiries about our program, Carry it Forward: Celebrate the Children of Resistance, to be held on June 16th, 2013 to commemorate the… Read More
Big Surprise: U.S. Secret Police & Big Banks Conspire to Smash Dissent
Blog Post
In November 2011, shortly after the violent government crackdown on the two-month old Occupy Wall Street movement, I blogged here, “It is not surprising that OWS became intolerable to the… Read More
Thanksgiving & Leonard Peltier
Blog Post
A confession – I love Thanksgiving. My wife and I, plus our children and grandchildren, celebrate on Cape Cod with my brother and his family. It is such a warm and cozy break from what is… Read More