向卢森堡致敬，纪念抵抗
皮泊·洛萨诺
50年代冷战最初的几年，由威斯康辛共和党参议员麦卡锡掀起的反共歇斯底里高潮中，成千上万的人， 从车间工人到好莱坞人物，都成为受害者。
数百人被美国联邦调查局追杀、驱逐或冤枉下狱，包括亚瑟和朱利.卢森堡夫妇。
1953年6月19日卢森堡夫妇被无耻地枉称向苏联提供制造原子弹的“机密”而被处决。现在，他们被誉为民主与和平的英雄。
他们的儿子，罗伯特.墨洛泊，现今60岁，已是两个成年女儿的父亲，他说，他今天的工作主要是将来源于他幼年时的经历扩大。1990年墨洛泊创办罗森堡儿童基金(RFC) ，这是一个公共基金会向那些他们的父母因从事政治活动而受到迫害的儿童提供的教育和活动经费。多年来，RFC已拨款超过350万元使数百名儿童受益。
今年6月19日，RFC将在卢森堡被处决54周年的日子举办庆祝“欢乐儿童抵抗”演出活动，节目包括戏剧、音乐和诗歌。
这个活动将在波士顿约翰.汉考大厅的回湾活动中心举行，安吉拉.戴维斯，爱华.安瑟勒，大卫.史特泰恩，霍华德.润和许多其他知名人物将会出席。
墨洛泊在一个电话采访中说：“我们正在尝试通过制作这个节目去纪念我的父母英勇的抵抗”。
墨洛泊说，他永远忘不了他的父母在狱中给他和他兄弟迈克写的最后的一封信。信中说他们的死“是为了捍卫他们所相信的知识，在他们死后会有人继续坚持下去。”
今天，墨洛泊认为RFC受益者及其家属正是这样去做。
“进步的社区组织正在凝聚起来给予我们援助”，他说。“虽然他们当时没能拯救我的父母，但他们正在拯救我和我的兄弟”。
“今天，我们正尝试通过RFC去恢复捍卫这些知识。”墨洛泊补充。“我们正在努力地在活动家的父母与子女之间做出积极正面的联系，使社会正义的捍卫者能世代相传。”
他说：“在麦卡锡时代，政府说有一个国际共产主义在进行阴谋破坏美国的生活方式，而且说，只有通过增加军费和用灌输恐惧的恐吓策略手段，才可以解决这个问题。现在，阴谋破坏美国生活方式的事情正在各地发生着，但是，它不是‘共产主义’，而是‘恐怖分子’的阴谋。这是一个错误的假设。过去是过去，现在是现在。”
基于布什政府和极右势力，墨洛泊继续说，“我们正生活在一个暴虐的时期，进步力量受到越来越多的攻击。”
在此次活动中发言的其中一位是反对伊拉克战争的抗议者31岁的卡米洛.梅吉亚，他在美军服务了近九年，包括2003年在伊拉克的5个月，直到他决定不再归队。
梅吉亚，是已知的第一个拒绝在伊拉克作战的老兵，出于良心他于2004年申请拒服兵役。为此，他被控逃兵罪而被判处一年徒刑，服刑九个月后被释放。梅吉亚6岁的女儿桑曼萨成为RFC的受益者。
“当一个活动家被起诉，将会给这个家庭带来困境，尤其是像桑曼萨这样的孩子。”梅吉亚在电话上告诉记者。“人们需要认识到，一个活动家的背后有一个家庭在支持着他，因而需要更多的像RFC这样的群体组织去做这样的慈善活动。”
“基于为了世界的资源”是全球反恐战争的一种婉言，梅吉亚说，“派遣更多军队到伊拉克去，就意味着更多的死亡和更多的暴力。”
“我们并不是生活在一个民主国家中，利润是美国最高优先而且我们不能够把跨国公司与我们的斗争分割开。”他补充说。
这些天来，梅吉亚在劝说一些老兵和他一起到学校、社区中心及教堂去做巡回演讲。他撰写并出版了一本新书《在通往阿拉.马迪的路上——上士梅吉亚的独立造反》。
墨洛泊强调RFC主要的信息和各种活动都是突出以儿童为本位的观点。
墨洛泊说：“我们从儿童的需要考虑，而不仅是为了施舍，但是，我们相信通过这种延续性斗争方式去培养跨世代的活动者并构建进步和活跃的社区。”
欲知详情，访问www.rfc.org
：皮泊.洛萨诺([email protected])，是《人民的世界周刊》的作家和编辑委员会成员，是一个RFC受益人。
原文：
Honoring the Rosenbergs, celebrating resistance
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Author: Pepe Lozano
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/31/07 12:25
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In the 1950s, during the height of the anti-communist hysteria led by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, thousands of people, from shop workers to Hollywood figures, became victims during the Cold War’s initial years.
Hundreds were hunted down by the FBI, deported or wrongfully imprisoned, including Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
Then on June 19, 1953, the Rosenbergs, now remembered as heroes for democracy and peace, were shamefully executed for allegedly giving the Soviet Union the “secret” of the atom bomb.
Their son, Robert Meeropol, now 60 and the father of two grown daughters, says his work today is largely based on his experiences as a child.
Robert Meerepol
In 1990, Meeropol founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC), a public foundation providing for the educational and emotional needs of U.S. children whose parents have been targeted for their political activities. Over the years, the RFC has made grants of over $3.5 million to benefit hundreds of children.
This June 19, the RFC will commemorate the 54th anniversary of the Rosenbergs’ execution with “Celebrate the Children of Resistance,” a program of dramatic readings, music and poetry.
The event will take place at the John Hancock Hall at the Back Bay Events Center in Boston. Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, David Strathairn, Howard Zinn and many other notable figures will be featured.
“What we are trying to do with this program is to celebrate the heroic resistance of my parents,” Meeropol said in a phone interview.
Meeropol said he never forgets the words his parents wrote to him and his brother Michael, in their last letter to them from prison, saying that they died “secure in the knowledge that others would carry on after them.”
Today, Meeropol believes RFC recipients and their families are doing just that.
“The progressive community rallied to our aid,” he said. “They may not have saved my parents but they saved my brother and me.”
“We are trying to replicate that today through the RFC,” Meeropol added. “We are trying to make a positive connection between the activists-parents and their children in order to transmit generations of social justice advocates.”
“During the McCarthy era the government said there was an international communist conspiracy out to destroy the American way of life,” he said. “And the only way they could solve this was to increase military spending and instill fear as a scare tactic. Now, the same thing is happening all over, but it’s not a ‘communist’ but rather a ‘terrorist’ conspiracy. This is a false assumption. It was then, and it is now.”
With the Bush administration and the ultra-right, Meeropol continued, “We are living in an oppressive period with a growing attack on the progressive forces.”
Speaking at the event will be Iraq war resister Camilo Mejia, 31, who served in the U.S. military for nearly nine years, including five months in Iraq in 2003, before refusing to return.
Mejia, the first known Iraq veteran to refuse combat, applied for conscientious objector status in 2004. Instead he was convicted of desertion and sentenced to one year in prison. He was released after serving nine months. Mejia’s 6-year-old daughter Samantha is an RFC recipient.
“When you prosecute an activist, it brings hard times to the family, especially for children like Samantha,” Mejia told the World by phone. “People have to realize there is a family behind activists, and there should be more groups like the RFC.”
The global war on terror is basically a euphemism to go after the world’s resources, Mejia said. “Sending more troops to Iraq means more death and more violence.”
“We’re not living in a democracy; profit is the top U.S. priority and we can never separate the corporations from our struggles,” he added.
These days Mejia counsels veterans and tours the country speaking at schools, community centers and churches. He is the author of a new book, “Road from Ar Ramadi, The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia.”
Meeropol emphasized that the main message of the RFC and the event is to highlight the child’s point of view.
“We want to take the needs of children into account, not as do-good softies, but we believe this is the way to invest in the continuity of struggle across generations and to embrace the progressive and activist community,” said Meeropol.
For more information, call (413) 529-0063 or visit www.rfc.org.
Pepe Lozano (plozano @pww.org), a PWW staff writer and editorial board member, is an RFC beneficiary.
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