$3600 for six CIF awards for textbooks and school supplies for six beneficiaries, ages 18 to 24, from 5 families. Their parents advocate for racial justice, prisoners’ rights, and human rights.
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$4420 for driver’s education, orthodontia, and two CIF awards for 4 children, ages 16 to 22, whose activist mom received death threats from the Klan for her efforts to desegregate a public housing complex.
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$5540 for tutoring, athletic expenses, and cultural programming for four children, ages nine to 18, from two families, whose mothers were both targeted for their anti-racist organizing in the workplace, fired without cause and have been prevented from working in their fields.
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$8,800 for childcare, school tuition, and school supplies for five children, ages 4 to 18, from three families whose parents received death threats and other threatening messages because of their advocacy for racial justice.
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$12,400 for tuition, tutoring, recreational activities and cultural programming for eight kids, ages nine to 15, from four families, whose dads faced repression for their racial justice organizing. Two lost jobs, one was arrested more than 40 times, others faced surveillance, arrest and harassment.
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$2560 for a computer and educational materials for the eight and 12-year-old daughters whose incarcerated father advocates for prison abolition in his poetry and writing. His views have resulted in prolonged periods in solitary confinement, violent attacks, additional charges and denial of communication with his family.
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$3200 for school tuition for the 13-year-old twins whose father was incarcerated for anti-apartheid efforts and continues to face ongoing targeting for his work to free political prisoners.
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$6800 for cultural programs and educational support for four children, ages seven to 18, from two families whose mothers were threatened for advocating for better programs and treatment of inmates.
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$8000 for school tuition and an online coding program for five kids, ages nine to 16, from two families whose fathers are both children of political prisoners. Their activism on behalf of political prisoners’ rights has resulted in police harassment and lost jobs.
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$650 for a computer for the 14-year-old son whose soldier father refused deployment to Iraq, fled to Canada and became active in the Canadian anti-war movement. After being deported back to the U.S., he served 15 months in the brig and is unable to re-enter Canada to see his son.
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