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(This guest post by RFC founder and former executive director, Robert Meeropol, originally appeared on his Still Out on a Limb blog at www.robertmeeropol.com/blog.) In her final hours my mother,… Read More

(guest post by Students for a Democratic Society)Student activists from across the country convened on the campus of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee on the weekend of Oct. 11-… Read More

This spring the RFC awarded grants to 72 families totaling just over $200,000. One is a new special Group Grant, the remaining 71 are renewal grants to aid 145 children. The continuing targeting of… Read More

One of the themes of the CARRY IT FORWARD program was the transmission of progressive values to future generations (see full story here).

In their final letter to my father and uncle, my grandparents wrote that they were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after them.

This is my first report as Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a job I assumed on September 1st from the founder and only previous leader of the RFC, my father Robert Meeropol.

Several major moves have happened recently at the RFC office. After six years running our granting program and other duties, Jennifer Meeropol has taken over from her father (the RFC’s founder,… Read More

By James Sullivan, September 3, 2013 EASTHAMPTON — When Jenn Meeropol’s second-grade teacher began introducing her students to social studies, her first question for them was, “What does government… Read More

August 12, 2013 - Robert Meeropol considers Bradley Manning a hero, and in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, declared, "...those responsible for the things Manning revealed will go… Read More

Robert Meeropol and Jenn Meeropolguardian.co.uk, Saturday 15 June 2013 08.30 EDT

Date: 06/14/2013Contributor: Karen Brown Dateline: Easthampton, MA  

Sam Roberts, Urban affairs correspondent, "New York Times"Posted: 06/12/2013 12:24 pm

By MADELEINE LIST Gazette Contributing Writer Friday, June 14, 2013(Published in print: Saturday, June 15, 2013) EASTHAMPTON — The Rosenberg Fund for Children’s slogan is “carry it forward.” For its… Read More

We’re still feeling the effects of lost sleep, but we’re also basking in the glow of the most dramatically successful program we’ve ever produced.  Sitting in the darkened theater Sunday afternoon… Read More

The RFC’s program, Carry it Forward, will take place this Sunday evening, June 16th, just days before the exact date of the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution.  In response to this timing, my… Read More

Only ten days until Carry it Forward, the RFC’s program at Town Hall in New York City to commemorate the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution, will take place.  It has become extremely hectic at… Read More

We Are Your Sons, the book my brother and I published in 1975, was translated into several languages, including Turkish.  Last year the woman who did that translation contacted me again and asked my… Read More

Earlier this week I read that Lynne Stewart, the radical lawyer who is serving a ten-year prison for distributing press releases on behalf of a client who was convicted of terrorist conspiracy, had… Read More