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October 20, 2011
Hope Reichbach's family launches memorial fund in honor of young political activist
NY Daily News
by Katie Nelson
The News picks up on a story first reported by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle last week.
Burgeoning political activist Hope Reichbach's efforts to build a better Brooklyn were tragically cut short earlier this year, but a new memorial fund created in her honor will give others the chance to continue her altruism.
...At least one boldface name is already funding the cause. The family of Brooklyn Nets owner and real estate developer Bruce Ratner has pledged $15,000 a year for the next five years.
Ratner and Gus Reichbach are decades-old friends who lived together while attending Columbia Law School.
The Ratner family hopes the donation will help "keep some version of Hope's amazing heart beating," said Ratner's daughter Lizzy, a journalist. "Some version of her brilliant mind thinking. Some version of those amazing boxing-trained biceps fighting for a better world."
"It's a wonderful idea, excellent because it empowers and provides opportunity," Lizzy Ratner said. "But is also going to create a generation of young people who can help realize Hope's vision and live out her ideals of social justice and build on them."
NoLandGrab: Maybe some of those empowered young people will fight against the kind of eminent domain and subsidy abuse for which Lizzie's dad is famous.
Posted by eric at October 20, 2011 11:58 AM