About Rachel Corrie

“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 2003

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.

Since her killing, an enormous amount of solidarity activities have been carried out in her name around the world.

Rachel’s Writing: Rachel Corrie’s journals and emails from her time in Palestine have been published in a variety of forms, published in books, plays and around the internet on various websites. Here are a selection of locations where you can read them for yourself:

Rachel Corrie: In her own words, Electronic Intifada
Rachel’s War, The Guardian
Rachel’s War (additional e-mails), The Guardian
Order booklet “Rachel’s Letters,” If Americans Knew
Download a PDF of the booklet for free, at If Americans Knew
Rachel’s emails, Rachel Corrie Foundation

A message from Rachel’s parents

On March 16, our daughter and sister Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer while she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Rachel chose to go to Rafah, a city at the southern tip of Gaza, because she believed the world had forsaken this place.During her time there, Rachel became our eyes and ears of as she told us about the tanks and bulldozers passing by, about the homes with tank-shell holes in their walls, about the rapidly multiplying, Israeli army towers with snipers lurking along the horizon, about apache helicopters and invisible drones buzzing over the city for hours at a time, about wells and greenhouses, and olive groves destroyed, and about the giant metal wall being built around Gaza.

— Read the rest of this here.

Memorials and article archives on Rachel

Electonic Intifada has a detailed photo story regarding Rachel’s killing in Rafah, a list of links to subsiquent court actions, Eyewitness reports and official statements and numerous articles on Rachel Corrie.
MIFTA.org has set up a tribute page that includes several photographs and links to articles.
Archive of articles on Rachel at the International Solidarity Movement website
All articles on Rachel at the Electronic Intifada
The Rachel Corrie Memorial Website has Rachel’s E-mails, public statements, news Reports and editorials regarding her death, videos of memorial events and more.
Song: “The Death of Rachel Corrie” by David Rovics
Poetry: “On the brink of…” by Suheir Hammad

Rachel’s Words

“My Name is Rachel Corrie” was scheduled to open at the New York Theatre Workshop on March 22nd. Amid political pressure, the play was “postponed indefinitely,” and The “Rachel’s Words” initiative was born. It was made up of a broad spectrum of groups and individuals who believed that Rachel’s words and her message of human rights and justice should be heard. “Rachel’s Words” was an event in March of 2006 to keep Rachel’s message form being censored. It has since become a movement. Read all about it here.