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On Going Harassment Makes Support Critical
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Along with the inspiring and affirming messages from our supporters (highlighted in the cover story of our most recent newsletter), we also receive a steady stream of communication from our grantees… Read More
MA in March, DC in April
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This spring we’ve got two exciting events planned which promise to be uplifting for attendees while raising funds for our work helping the children of resistance. Both dates will feature activist… Read More
Ongoing Harassment Makes Support Critical
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Along with the inspiring and affirming messages from supporters highlighted in our cover story, we also receive a steady stream of communication from our grantees. These updates come from parents of… Read More
Thank You for Writing
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Day in and day out, we receive touching, feisty and amusing notes from our supporters. They arrive via email and surface mail; printed, typed and handwritten; accompanying monetary or other donations… Read More
2018 Year-End Message from Jenn Meeropol
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“My daughter studied the KKK at school... she is not only worried about the government repression [for my organizing] but about the possibility of racist physical attacks against us as well.”
These kids singing made us feel better this week
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It’s been an ugly, painful week marked by multiple, high profile hate crimes around the country. Unfortunately, this is not an aberration but a continuation of assaults that have intensified since… Read More
Bequests Can Help Fund Our Future
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In their final letter to my father and uncle, my grandparents wrote that they were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after them.
Nearly $200,000 Awarded as Requests Pour In
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NEW GRANTS
Dad Targeted while in Sanctuary $5447 for computer equipment, sports programs and summer camps for four children, ages nine to 19, whose father is an immigrants’ rights leader. Since being… Read More
Artist Partnerships Continue in 2018
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2018 is shaping up to be another year of fruitful connections with generous, progressive artists. Over the summer RFC supporters in Brooklyn hosted a benefit featuring music by Grammy-nominated… Read More
Remembering the Rosenbergs in Havana
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On June 19th, 2018, a crowd gathered at the memorial to the Rosenbergs in Havana, Cuba to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the couple’s execution. A singer performed a rendition of Ethel and… Read More
Another World is Possible
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Who are the children of resistance receiving support from the RFC today? They’re preschoolers crying at night, separated from their immigrant parents. They’re youth protesting the people and policies… Read More
Family Separations Hit Close to Home
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by Executive Director Jenn MeeropolImages of small children in cages, crying for their parents or holding signs protesting a parent’s detention or deportation flooded my email and social media this… Read More
Abel Meeropol & "Strange Fruit"
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Last fall the RFC was a sponsor of the first-ever Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award presented by Straw Dog Writers Guild to poet Patricia Smith. The Guild was co-founded by my mother, Ellen… Read More
No Family Separations
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A few weeks ago I received an email from a former RFC beneficiary who I’ve stayed in touch with over the years. She contacted me to respond to the blogs my dad and I wrote about our thoughts on the… Read More
Finally Seeing Angels in America
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Last week Angels in America closed after a triumphant, award-winning revival on Broadway, more than a quarter century after it first took the theater world by storm. During Angels’ first Broadway run… Read More
The Legacy of Family Separation
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Images of small children in cages, crying for their parents, have flooded my email and social media. I’m saddened and enraged as a human being, and as a US citizen I’m appalled by what the government… Read More
On the 65th anniversary of my grandparents' executions
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On today’s anniversary of my grandparents’ execution, I’m thinking about two-year-old Angel and his big brother Bryan, who don’t understand why they can’t live with both parents anymore.