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Monday, April 21, 2003
Remembering Rachel Corrie
Thursday March 20, 2003
The Guardian
Millions remember a Chinese man standing in front of a tank in Beijing in 1989. I am ashamed to say that I never knew his name. This week a young American woman was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer as she stood with arms outstretched, trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian Arab house in the Rafah refugee camp. I know her name: Rachel Corrie (Rachel's war, G2, March 18). She was 23 years old. George Bush has been silent about her death, but she should be remembered as representing the best of America. He will be remembered as representing the rest.
Bill Speirs
General secretary, Scottish TUC
No one reading Rachel Corrie's emails can fail to be moved by the death of a brave young woman whose life was crushed from her as she tried to protect Palestinian homes from destruction. Every day Palestinian lives, no more or less important than Rachel's, are lost in similar ways. Their homes are bulldozed and their land stolen as they are herded into small areas, in what is fast becoming a giant open-air prison.
It is more vital than ever that internationals continue to travel to the Palestine territories to show we support the right of refugees to return to their homes and to exercise their right to democratic statehood.
Chris Dunham
International Solidarity Movement
contact@ism-london.org
While weightier issues obviously preoccupy people at the moment, I wondered what press reports we might read if a 23-year-old US peace activist had been killed by an Iraqi bulldozer while trying to prevent it destroying people's homes.
Joseph Cocker
Leominster, Herefordshire
Remembering Rachel Corrie
Thursday March 20, 2003
The Guardian
Millions remember a Chinese man standing in front of a tank in Beijing in 1989. I am ashamed to say that I never knew his name. This week a young American woman was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer as she stood with arms outstretched, trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian Arab house in the Rafah refugee camp. I know her name: Rachel Corrie (Rachel's war, G2, March 18). She was 23 years old. George Bush has been silent about her death, but she should be remembered as representing the best of America. He will be remembered as representing the rest.
Bill Speirs
General secretary, Scottish TUC
No one reading Rachel Corrie's emails can fail to be moved by the death of a brave young woman whose life was crushed from her as she tried to protect Palestinian homes from destruction. Every day Palestinian lives, no more or less important than Rachel's, are lost in similar ways. Their homes are bulldozed and their land stolen as they are herded into small areas, in what is fast becoming a giant open-air prison.
It is more vital than ever that internationals continue to travel to the Palestine territories to show we support the right of refugees to return to their homes and to exercise their right to democratic statehood.
Chris Dunham
International Solidarity Movement
contact@ism-london.org
While weightier issues obviously preoccupy people at the moment, I wondered what press reports we might read if a 23-year-old US peace activist had been killed by an Iraqi bulldozer while trying to prevent it destroying people's homes.
Joseph Cocker
Leominster, Herefordshire
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