Yet another young activist was imprisoned last week and could spend up to 18 months behind bars even though she hasn’t been charged with a crime.  24-year-old Leah-Lynn Plante has been jailed for refusing to answer a grand jury’s questions.  Here is a video of Leah making her last statement before her third court date and subsequent jailing, and I’m reprinting the text below.  It is a little longer than most of my blog posts, but I think all RFC supporters will want to read it in its entirety.  And I add my voice to

Last Saturday afternoon I attended the memorial meeting for Ward Morehouse, a dedicated life-long activist and a long-time supporter of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.  Charlie King opened the program with one of Ward’s favorite parody songs:  Send in the Drones, sung to the tune of Send in the Clowns.   I’ve set down some of the words below:

“Isn’t it strange?
Aren’t we a pair?
One sitting safe on the ground
One in mid air

RFC supporters sometimes include notes along with their contributions.  Today I received one that I thought others might find interesting.  So this week, rather than write my own blog, I am posting it instead.

Last Friday evening Elli and I heard Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org*, speak at Amherst College. Bill is probably the leading environmental activist in the country. The 650 people who jammed the original lecture hall, and the 300 more who flooded the video-fed, auxiliary venue, were a testament to his drawing power and the growing unease so many feel about climate change.

I’m writing this on September 4th, 22 years to the day after I started working as the RFC’s first Executive Director in a rent-free office in a friend’s law firm. Today also marks the first day of my last year at the RFC’s helm.