Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an educational, research, and human rights nonprofit devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes. The Foundation was authorized by a unanimous Act of Congress and signed as Public Law 103-199 by President Clinton in 1993.

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Letter to California Officials regarding the ESMC

December 18, 2020

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Co-Signatories include:

American Cold War Veterans | Fr. Charles Nalls, President

Ankor Cambodian Foods | Channy Chhi Laux, CEO & Founder

Campaign for Uyghurs | Rushan Abbas, Founder & Executive Director

Center for a Free Cuba | John Suarez, Executive Director

Chinese Democracy Education Foundation | Fang Zheng, President

Cuba Decide Initiative | Rosa María Payá, Coordinator

Friends of Falun Gong | Alan Adler, Executive Director

Friends of the Imperial City of Hue | Nguyen-mau Trinh, Chairman

Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation | James R. Fisher, Executive Director

His Excellency Martin Palouš | Former Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Nations, Director of Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Democracy

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers | Reggie Littlejohn, Founder & President

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“[California officials are] already mulling some 200 changes, none ultimately change the underlying representation of California and America. Many make it worse … We must understand the dark to appreciate the light, but to see only darkness is to be blind. The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum will leave blind future generations unless it is profoundly changed. It must be made to reflect the light that drew so many of the weary and oppressed from the world over…"
- *Orange County Register | Murray Bessette*