Tuesday, June 19th- 2007 - all day “Celebrate the Children of Resistance”Rosenberg Fund for Children event the 54th anniversary of Julius & Ethel Rosenbergs' execution. Hosted by Angela Davis, featuring participants: David Strathairn, Martín Espada, Howard Zinn, Pamela Means, Robert Meeropol, and more... Pamela Means will perform the song "Strange Fruit," a powerful indictment of America's brutal lynching past. Named Song of the Century by TIME Magazine, "Strange Fruit" was written by Abel Meeropol. A Jewish schoolteacher and songwriter from the Bronx, who along with his wife, also became the adoptive parents of Robert & Michael Meeropol, the orphaned sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg.
|