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• "Full of Joy": the 2017 Carry it Forward Gathering

  11 août, par jenn
  The RFC held our ninth Gathering the first weekend in August. Twenty current beneficiaries ages 18 to 24 and three peer leaders (former beneficiaries in their late 20s and 30s who have attended prior Gatherings) joined RFC staff and Board for four days of cultural workshops along with (...)

• Meet Pamela Means

  26 juillet, par jenn
  Most members of the RFC Board of Directors live in western Massachusetts and have strong ties to local, regional and/or national activist communities. They are teachers, community organizers, lawyers, artists, therapists and college professors who are committed to our work supporting the (...)

• Visiting Ethel & Julius in Havana

  20 juin, par amber
  (guest blog by RFC Communications Director, Amber Black) It’s large, the monument. It resides on a nondescript corner of an intersection in Havana, Cuba. The striking portrait in stone honors a young couple, killed by the U.S. government on June 19, 1953. They’re viewed as traitors by some, (...)

• June 19, 2017: Honoring Ethel and Julius and Anne and Abel

  19 juin, par jenn
  On this 64th anniversary of the execution of my grandparents, I’m struck by a related milestone that passed without fanfare a few months ago: the 60th anniversary of my dad and uncle’s adoption by Anne and Abel Meeropol. Taken together, these events capture the spirit of the Rosenberg Fund for (...)

• RFC Families and Kinship of Clover

  5 juin, par jenn
  My mother, Ellen Meeropol, calls herself "a literary late bloomer.” After careers in art and medicine, she started seriously writing fiction eighteen years ago when she was well into her 50s, and has had three novels published in the past six years. Her books explore themes that are likely (...)

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