Below i have cut and pasted an an announcement on the 62nd annual memorial of Julius and Ethel RosenTberg, who were executed in the most infamous political show trial in U.S. history. School children asre still "taught" that they were "atomic bomb" spies. That there was no "secret" of the atom bomb, that completely false evidence was manufactured by the Justice Department and FBI against Ethel, that their attempted appeals were sabotaged by both the Judge and the Attorney General, is known only to serious students of the case. The clear anti-semitic subtext to case also remains largely hidden to most.
The struggle to remember and learn from the tragic history of the Rosenbergs is essential for all of us if we are to resist the kind of managed political hysteria that trickled down from the U.S. government/Justice Department/FBI/ Federal Courts that led them to the electric chair. The remarkable, heroic struggle to save the Rosenbergs, which went on to the day of their judicial murder,and their own courage, in refusing the "offer" of clemency(no execution) if they confessed and "named names" thus fueling the hysteria, also must be remembered if we are to confront the struggles today against secret searches and seizures, preventive detention, torture in violation of the Geneva Rules of War, and other expressions of the managed political hysteria which has accompanied the "war against terrorism."
Norman Markowitz
Dear Friends,
Join me in an act of defiance and memory of the darkest day of a shameful era. We are still here, we remember, the fight will go on:
Gerald Meyer
62nd ANNUAL MEMORIAL for
ETHEL & JULIUS ROSENBERG
with ROBERT MEEROPOL
on Thursday, June 18, 2015 from 7-9:30pm
at: UAW/National Writers Union
256 West 38th Street, 12th floor
New York City (between 7th & 8th Avenues)
Join us in welcoming Robert Meeropol, younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and an authoritative voice on the Case, who will address this Memorial. We will screen the award-winning film “Strange Fruit,” which tells the story of the song (composed by Abel Meeropol, who adopted Michael and Robert Rosenberg) which became the anthem of the anti-lynching Movement and Billie Holiday’s signature song. We are indeed honored to be addressed by Soffiyah Elijah, pioneering criminal justice activist and defender of political prisoners, currently the first woman and person-of-color Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York.
There will be a Question-and-Answer session. Refreshments will be served. Admission isfree―but you MUST RSVP! Books and literature will be available. Please bring your friends. We hope you can observe this 62nd Memorial with us.
In Solidarity,
Tibby Brooks,
Executive Director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Jolie Pataki, President
Monie Itzkowitz, Treasurer
David Alman, President Emeritus
Tibby Brooks, Executive Director
Charles Bayor ♦ Toby Emmer
Robert Meeropol ♦ Miriam Moskowitz
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