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From the Executive Director
Jennifer Meeropol is the granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and the daughter of RFC Founder, Robert Meeropol.  Jenn became the Executive Director of the RFC on September 1, 2013.  Prior posts on this page were written by Robert (unless otherwise noted), and represent his opinions, which are not necessarily shared by the RFC.
 
 

I woke up at 4:00am one morning this week thinking about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. It was less than 24 hours after I learned that the New York City police had evicted all those camped in Zuccotti Park. OWS has been full of surprises, but why was I not shocked by the wave of evictions sweeping the country, and why had the initial spark of the September protest in that park set off a nationwide firestorm?

A year ago we reported in our newsletter that a young activist, who was 14 in 2002 when she was illegally arrested at a protest, decided to donate a significant portion of the compensation she received. The donor, now in her 20’s, wrote: “Naturally some of the settlement needs to go back into the activist pot.”

Recently, we received a second very generous donation from another protester who received similar reparation. She wrote: