Remembering Rachel Corrie

"The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie" by Billy Bragg (Article)
The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie

CORRIE, Rachel -- Peace Activist

Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on 16 March 2003, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a a Palestinian doctor, his wife, and three children from demolition. Since her killing, an enormous amount of solidarity activities have been carried out in her name around the world.
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/people/8.shtml



Photostory: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist
Nigel Parry and Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 16 March 2003
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/1248

Rachel Corrie Memorial Website
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/


Rachel Corrie's Echo

Excerpt: "We are speaking out today because of Rachel's fears about the impact of a war with Iraq on the people in the Occupied Territories. She reported to us that her Palestinian friends were afraid that with all eyes on Iraq, the Israeli Defense Forces would escalate activity in the Occupied Territories. Rachel wanted to be in Gaza if that happened," explained Cynthia Corrie. "In the last six weeks, Rachel became our eyes and ears for Rafah, a city at the southern tip of Gaza. Now that she's no longer there, we are asking members of Congress and, truly, all the world to watch and listen." Craig and Cynthia Corrie
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=505


The Second Death of Rachel Corrie
Censorship of the Worst Kind

By VANESSA REDGRAVE

March 6, 2006

I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for--a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman.

This is censorship of the worst kind. More awful even than that.It is black-listing a dead girl and her diaries.A very brave and exceptional girl who all citizens, whatever their faith or nationality, should be proud and grateful for her existence. They couldn't silence her voice while she lived, so she was killed. Her voice began to speak again as Alan Rickman read her diaries, and Megan Dodds became Rachel Corrie.Now the New York Theatre Workshop have silenced that dear voice. Read more...http://www.counterpunch.org/redgrave03062006.html




International Solidarity Movement

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