$4725 for tuition and sports programs for four children, ages 13 to 15, from two families. Fathers in both families lost their jobs and faced harassment for their public-facing anti-racist organizing work.
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$9000 for a wide range of programs for seven kids, ages six to 18, from three families involved in the fight for racial justice in education. Some parents are students and others are teachers, but all have worked to improve equity in schools and universities. Parents have been harassed, threatened and/or lost their jobs as a result of continued organizing.
$1508 for music lessons and art supplies for the 10 and 14-year-old daughters whose incarcerated father advocates for prison abolition in his poetry and writing. His advocacy has resulted in prolonged periods in solitary confinement, violent attacks and being barred from communication with his family.
$2000 for educational supplies and sports for two kids, ages nine and 13, whose father participated in a hunger strike at a detention center to protest the detention of immigrants and unsafe conditions during the pandemic. As a result, he was threatened with deportation, told he would not be eligible for release and taunted by prison guards.
$3000 for cultural programs for the nine and 12-year-old sons whose mother created an alternative program for incarcerated communities in a federal penitentiary. She was accused of conspiring with a political prisoner and threatened with prosecution.
$3000 for tuition and therapy for the 15-year-old twins whose father was incarcerated for anti-apartheid efforts and continues to face targeting for his work to free political prisoners.
$4500 for educational support and recreational activities for three children, ages 12 to 17, whose mother advocates for individuals wronged in the criminal justice system, and, due to targeting, can’t find work within a 100-mile radius of her home.
$7500 for school tuition and sports for five children aged 11 to 18 from two families. Both fathers, themselves the sons of political prisoners, have experienced harassment and job loss because of their activism.
$1000 for physical therapy for the 17-year-old daughter whose father, a member of a peace and international solidarity group, had his home raided and was threatened with arrest but refuses to testify before a grand jury investigating anti-war activists.
$1500 for tuition for the 14-year-old grandson whose grandmother (with whom he lives part time) travels the U.S. advocating for social justice. In response to her activism, her vehicle has been vandalized on numerous occasions and drivers have tried to run her off the road.