Play based on diaries of peace activist killed in Gaza is moved from New York to the West End
By Anthony Barnes - from the Independent

Rachel Corrie’s proud parents will walk into a West End theatre today, past their late...

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Published on Thursday, April 13, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
by Norman Solomon

Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,” the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media.

A Los...

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Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Peace Works Conference
Olympia, Washington, USA

April 20th, In Lecture: Arun Gandhi, Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
April 21st, Putting Justice into Action: Exchanging...

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1) Katharine Viner, co-editor of the play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie”, on the controversy over the postponement of her play. Link
2) Debate Between NY Theater Workshop and Katharine Viner. Transcript...

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Friday, March 24, 2006

By MAKEBA SCOTT HUNTER
HERALD NEWS

Despite the cancellation of a theater production based on the writings of the late human-rights activist, some 1,200 people packed into Harlem’s Riverside Church Wednesday night for an alternate production - pulled together in two weeks by friends...

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By Starhawk

March 17, 2006

Yesterday was a sad day. The third anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, crushed by a bulldozer in Rafah, in the Gaza strip. All day the sky glowered, dark and oppressive, while from time to time drenching showers rained down, as if nature herself were weeping.

Three...

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Originally printed in The Nation

by Philip Weiss

The slim book that was suddenly the most controversial work in the West in early March was not easy to find in the United States. Amazon said it wasn’t available till April. The Strand bookstore didn’t have it either. You...

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As part of a day of actions to on the anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s murder, ISM activists laid down in front of a D9 Caterpillar bulldozer at Qalandia checkpoint, spattering themselves with red paint. Soldiers looked on as contractors...

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Today, March 16th, the third anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie, events in honor of her memory are taking place in 13 different countries. Nine events are taking place in Palestine and Israel and 41 events are taking place in the US.

For details...

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In his March 6, 2005 New York Times article “Too Hot to Handle, Too Hot Not to Handle”, New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein comments on the New York Theatre Workshop’s “postponement”...

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