Bill
Kunstler loved life and hated racism. He was brilliant, humorous, witty,
passionate, and fearless. Journeying south to defend civil rights demonstrators
in 1964, he found himself and his life's work. Bill was tireless and
uncompromising. In his memory, his family and friends have established
the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice to help continue
the fight he loved so well. The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice
Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, makes grants to fierce
and energetic projects to help guarantee Bill's legacy, and helps to
coordinate and implement projects and inititiatives in the interest
of racial justice. For the past five years, the Fund has helped organize
vigils of families affected by the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York
City and throughout the state. In the last year, the Fund has begun
to investigate how the 'War on Drugs' is being fought across the country,
and has helped mobilize families and publicize the unduely harsh sentencing
and racially biased enforcement of drug legislation throughout the United
States.