thepalestineyoudontknow:In Memory of Rachel Corrie : A Palestinian hero .Rachel Corrie was a 23-year
thepalestineyoudontknow:In Memory of Rachel Corrie : A Palestinian hero .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 Palestinian family from demolition.I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.– Rachel Corrie, in an email to her mother, February 28 2003Read Rachel’s emails from Palestine. -- source link