On April 11, 2026, hundreds of community members gathered at First Churches in Northampton, Mass. to celebrate resistance across generations of activists and 35 years of the Rosenberg Fund for Children serving the kids of targeted activists and targeted activist youth. In the midst of our nation’s current reality, in which authoritarianism is on the rise, gender affirming care and reproductive rights are under attack, friends and neighbors are kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol agents and the current administration wages war abroad, it was especially powerful and moving to come together to honor those who have resisted and are resisting, winning hard fought victories across the country and around the world.

To both mark our 35th anniversary and try to make sense of the current moment, we heard poetry from Martín Espada, remarks from RFC Founder Robert Meeropol and RFC Executive Director Jenn Meeropol, stories of targeting and resistance from RFC beneficiary families from the RFC’s granting coordinator, Cleo Rohn, and a moving personal testimonial from an RFC beneficiary parent, Kirby Amour. We closed the program with music, and a rousing singalong  from singer-songwriter, Pamela Means. While we were looking forward to also hearing remarks from the incomparable Angela Y. Davis about her decades of powerful activism and resistance, she became ill right before our event and unable to participate as scheduled. We wish her a swift and full recovery.