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Out on a Limb Together

Activists go out on a limb when they fight for social justice. Their children can be left out on a limb when these parents are targeted. The RFC is a community stepping out on that limb together, and enveloping vulnerable activist families in a network of support.

In the Out on a Limb Together blog, the RFC's Executive Director, Robert Meeropol, discusses matters of interest to the RFC community.

 

 

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Rosenberg Case Panel at Left Forum
Mar 10, 2010

On March 20th at 3PM I will participate in a panel discussion at the Left Forum (Pace University, One Pace Plaza, across from City Hall Park in lower Manhattan) entitled Exonerate The Rosenbergs? Robert & Michael Meeropol React to Morton Sobell and Other New Developments. This panel is sponsored by the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case (NCRRC).

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Exoneration: The Rosenberg-Sobell Case in the 21st Century
Mar 03, 2010

This past July I read the pre-publication manuscript of a new book about my parents’ case, Exoneration, the Rosenberg-Sobell Case in the 21st Century by David and Emily Alman, and was moved to give this endorsement:

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Can we Revive the Gathering Program?
Feb 25, 2010

I suppose the RFC is doing as well as, if not better, than one would expect in the midst of the Great Recession (funny the way there is such a resistance to using the “d” word!). Our tremendously loyal and committed supporters have come through repeatedly with thousands upon thousands of modest donations, mostly ranging between $25 and $100. But I’m primarily attuned to our beneficiaries’ needs, and so end up seeing the glass as a quarter empty instead of three-quarters full.

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Mumia: Fast Track to Execution?
Feb 18, 2010

Many of you may have seen the national press coverage of a recent Supreme Court decision in the case of Mumia abu-Jamal. As members of the RFC community you probably know I have been involved in the effort to save Mumia’s life since the mid 1990’s. I consider him the first political prisoner to face execution in the United States since my parents. I wrote about his case in my book, An Execution in the Family, starting on page 227.

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Dump the Lesser Evil? Part II
Feb 09, 2010

Part 2 (Cont'd from last week: www.rfc.org/blog/article/444)

As the sun rose on the morning of January 20th after Scott Brown’s victory it dawned on me that while, in the short term there can be very good reasons for voting for the Democrats (there certainly were good reasons to vote for Obama/Biden over McCain/Palin), by voting the lesser evil into office we make it more likely that the greater evil will soon return.

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