$1600 for tutoring and a CIF award for two children, ages 17 and 21, whose father lives in exile in the U.S. He faced threats to his life for his advocacy in his home country for rural communities’ right to their natural resources.
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$3800 for three children, ages three to 17, from two families. Both families have spent years organizing against environmental racism in their communities and have faced targeting by employers and police.
$8600, including a CIF award, for six children, ages six to 19, from three families. Their parents helped disrupt pipeline operations and bring attention to the impact of the fossil fuel industry. One parent was physically assaulted, another faced felony charges and another was forced to relocate.
$14,920 for a broad range of programs and one CIF award for 12 children, ages seven to 20, from four families. Some parents were beaten and arrested while marching against environmental racism, while others were attacked or imprisoned for their organizing work.
$1500 for tutoring for the eight-year-old daughter whose father, a journalist, was attacked while covering a neo-Nazi rally. He was arrested and had his camera confiscated while his attacker walked free.
$1500 for dance and music lessons for a six-year-old girl whose mom went public about being stopped by a Customs and Border Patrol agent because she was speaking Spanish. She took legal action and had to move to escape the harassment she endured for speaking out.
$4000 to support two children, ages eight and 12, whose father leaked documents that exposed racist surveillance tactics in the U.S. He was sentenced to prison and forced to liquidate all assets to pay legal fees.
$6000 in homeschooling expenses for four children aged eight to 15 whose family fled the U.S. to escape the FBI’s harassment of their father for his public opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He was arrested, tortured and extradited back to the U.S., which forced the family to relocate once again.
$7000 for a broad range of programs for five children, ages four to 18, from four families whose parents were fired for advocating for equity in schools, racial justice and free press rights.
$1500 for early childhood education for the four-year-old son whose parent, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, was followed, doxed and harassed by police and white supremacist groups.