Dr. El-Farra, a Palestinian physician, activist, and mother, founded the Rachel Corrie Children and Youth Cultural Center in 2003. She is the Director of Gaza Projects for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, serves as a health development consultant for the Union of Health Work Committees in Gaza, and is Vice President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Dr. El-Farra is an internationally-recognized human rights leader who speaks regularly at conferences in Europe and is currently writing a book with Noam Chomsky. She will be in Olympia one day only during her first US speaking tour, which will also take her to the US Social Forum in Atlanta, the national conference of United for Peace and Justice in Chicago, and to “The World Says No to Israeli Occupation” – a mass mobilization in Washington DC. All funds raised on Dr. El-Farra’s tour will go directly to serving the needs of women, children, and families in the Gaza Strip.

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Break the Silence Mural Project presents

Art and Action:
Collaborative Murals on Rachel Corrie Center for Children and Youth

Presentation

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By Fawaz Turki
Special to Gulf News
A three-hour ride on the Metroliner from Washington, my hometown, to New York will get you to Gaza. Well, not quite. But the ethos of that tormented strip of land, whose suffering is beyond all rational understanding, is so compellingly evoked on the stage of the off-Broadway Menetta Lane Theatre, that you think you’re there.

The play, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a riveting one-woman show, is the story of Rachel Corrie, the young, all-American youngster who was crushed to death 3 years ago, at age 23, under an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to shield a Palestinian home from demolition, one of 3,000 homes destroyed by the Israeli military in the Rafah region of Gaza between 2001 and 2003. (read the full article here)

By Jeremy Gerard
Bloomberg.com

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Independent publisher W.W. Norton this week acquired the complete writings of Rachel Corrie, the young American killed in March 2003, while trying to prevent an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer from razing a Palestinian home in Gaza. Read the rest

A monologue fashioned from the words of a woman killed in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict creates drama on-stage and off

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Cathleen McGuigan
Newsweek

Oct. 16, 2006 - Do you remember the name Rachel Corrie? Maybe not. She was a 23-year-old American peace activist killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer as she tried to block the destruction of a Palestinian’s house in Gaza in March 2003. She became more than a footnote in the Middle East conflict when her own words—from her journals and e-mails—were shaped into an award-winning one-actor play in London called “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” But when the show’s U.S. opening last spring was cancelled at the New York Theater Workshop (best known for spawning the musical “Rent”), a controversy erupted. The theater’s artistic director had made his decision after talking to leaders in the Jewish community; he later told The New York Times, “It seemed as though if we proceeded, we would be taking a stand we didn’t want to take.” The London producers called the cancellation “censorship.” Read the rest