News & Events

Spring Grants Bring Total Awarded to More than $7 Million

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NEW GRANTS Pipeline Protestor Imprisoned $4500 for school tuition for four children, ages seven to 13, whose environmental activist father shut down a pipeline to bring attention to the harm… Read More

Sales of Limited Edition Photo of Pete Seeger Benefit RFC

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In celebration of the 2019 centennial of Pete Seeger's birth, fine art photographer Robert Floyd has produced a limited edition of nine, 13” x 19” prints of his candid 1979 photo of Pete Seeger at a… Read More

Welcome on Board!

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During the past year, three new members joined the RFC Board. Claudia Quintero came to us last fall.

Group Grants Support Multi-Generational Activism

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The RFC turns 30 next year. Many of our supporters have been with us for most, if not all, of the past three decades but I bet even some of them may not know about a small but vital grant program:… Read More

Remembering Pete Seeger

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May 3, 2019, was the 100th anniversary of Pete Seeger’s birth. Pete was a beloved part of the RFC community, a generous founding member (with his wife Toshi) of our Advisory Board, and prior to that… Read More

Guest Blog: Remembering Tom Manning

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30 March, 2010"I'm in the hole down here in Coleman (USP#1) Florida, Hoping to be let out into general population soon, after being dragged through the SHU's (holes) of several prisons over the past… Read More

#CloseTheCamps

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[en español] It was just over a year ago that images of small children in cages on U.S. soil, crying for their parents, caused widespread outrage and disgust towards those responsible for creating… Read More

On the 66th anniversary of my grandparents' executions

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I’ve been thinking a lot about family in the lead up to the 66th anniversary of the execution of my grandparents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In part, that’s because my first emotional connection to… Read More

Remembering Pete Seeger on his 100th Birthday

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In honor of today's centennial of Pete Seeger's birth, I'm re-posting this blog my father, RFC Founder Robert Meeropol, and I wrote following Pete's death in January, 2014. A collection of photos,… Read More

On Going Harassment Makes Support Critical

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Along with the inspiring and affirming messages from our supporters (highlighted in the cover story of our most recent newsletter), we also receive a steady stream of communication from our grantees… Read More

Near-Record Amount Awarded After Flood of Applications

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NEW GRANTS 

MA in March, DC in April

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This spring we’ve got two exciting events planned which promise to be uplifting for attendees while raising funds for our work helping the children of resistance. Both dates will feature activist… Read More

Ongoing Harassment Makes Support Critical

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Along with the inspiring and affirming messages from supporters highlighted in our cover story, we also receive a steady stream of communication from our grantees. These updates come from parents of… Read More

Thank You for Writing

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Day in and day out, we receive touching, feisty and amusing notes from our supporters. They arrive via email and surface mail; printed, typed and handwritten; accompanying monetary or other donations… Read More

2018 Year-End Message from Jenn Meeropol

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“My daughter studied the KKK at school... she is not only worried about the government repression [for my organizing] but about the possibility of racist physical attacks against us as well.”

These kids singing made us feel better this week

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It’s been an ugly, painful week marked by multiple, high profile hate crimes around the country. Unfortunately, this is not an aberration but a continuation of assaults that have intensified since… Read More

Bequests Can Help Fund Our Future

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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.

Nearly $200,000 Awarded as Requests Pour In

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NEW GRANTS Dad Targeted while in Sanctuary $5447 for computer equipment, sports programs and summer camps for four children, ages nine to 19, whose father is an immigrants’ rights leader. Since being… Read More