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‘Meu pai fez espionagem, mas não atômica’, diz filho de Rosenberg

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06.06.12 Vitor Sorano

Filho quer resgatar imagem do Casal Rosenberg

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06.16.12 Vitor Sorano

Heading for Brazil

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I’m convinced that humans make a big deal out of anniversaries in multiples of 10 because we have ten fingers. The RFC is not immune to this trend. We’ve staged major programs in New York City on… Read More

First Person: Robert Meeropol

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My parents were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communists executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. I was three years old when they were arrested and six when they were executed.

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

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I first met Judi Bari in November 1991, just a little over a year after I founded the RFC. We both attended a conference held at the Highlander Center at which 30 environmental and civil rights… Read More

Bad Medicine from the Mainstream Media

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Watching the media coverage of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) just published book, The Evolving Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance – Options for Action, may teach us more about how the… Read More

Executive Director's Report: Our Survival Depends Upon It!

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A Record 19 New Families Join RFC Community in 2011

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This fall we awarded 78 grants totaling almost $180,000. Nine of these awards were to new families. This brings our granting total for 2011 to $369,570, an increase of almost $10,000 over 2010. We… Read More

The Most Exciting Weekend Ever

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Nineteen RFC beneficiaries ages 18 to 24, and four peer leaders, from 13 states plus Puerto Rico, participated in the 2011 Carry it Forward Gathering along with workshop leaders, RFC staff and Board… Read More

60 Years Too Late

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February 25th will mark the 60th anniversary of the United States Appeals Court’s affirmation of my parents’ conviction for Conspiracy to Commit Espionage. As I have explained before, my parents… Read More

The New Jim Crow

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I just finished reading The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, with a forward by Cornel West (The New Press, 2012). I urge people to read this… Read More

The Rosenberg Fund for Children: Another Rosenberg Legacy [in English]

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The privilege of directing the RFC has made the last 21 years the best of my life. The decades that preceded it were more difficult. In the 1970’s my brother and I had been plaintiffs in a lawsuit… Read More

Pourquoi la Fondation Rosenberg pour les enfants (RFC)

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Le privilège d’être à la tête de la RFC ont fait de ces 21 dernières années les meilleures de ma vie. Les décennies qui ont précédé ont été plus difficiles.

PEINE DE MORT. Le combat pour la vie d'un enfant d'exécutés

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An interview with Robert Meeropol by a prominent French periodical, on the eve of World Day Against the Death Penalty, 2011, and Robert's participation in Paris in events marking the occasion...Pour… Read More

Fund Our Future

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I’m often asked how we intend to keep the RFC going. The generation of the 1930’s is passing, and the generation of the 1960’s is aging. My response is, “Bequests!”

Executive Director's Report: Heading for a Dubious Record

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The Rosenberg Fund for Children now makes almost 150 grants annually, but since our priority is to be a consistent source of multi-year support for those we aid, for the last several years over 90%… Read More

20th Anniversary Series Reaps Big Returns

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At the RFC, we plan far ahead for major events and milestones. So it was not unusual that in 2008 we already were thinking about how we would mark our 20th anniversary, which fell in September 2010.… Read More