By Alice Zillah on Dec 14, 2007 in News and Updates
2007 was an exciting and productive year for the Rachel Corrie Foundation. We’d like to share our accomplishments with you and invite you to be a part of our work.
By Alice Zillah on Nov 8, 2007 in Events
On Friday, October 19th, the Rachel Corrie Foundation was hosted by the local Fellowship of Reconciliation for an afternoon rush-hour demonstration in downtown Olympia. Read the rest
By Alice Zillah on Oct 17, 2007 in Events
A Photographic Exhibition
Evergreen State College Library
Thursday, Oct. 17th
7:00 pm
Opening Reception with Muna Hamzeh,
Palestinian-American journalist and poet
and Cindy and Craig Corrie
By Alice Zillah on Oct 16, 2007 in News and Updates
3,800 grave markers lined the wet grass of Heritage Park near, near the edge of Capitol Lake in Olympia on Sunday and Monday in honor of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. This is the fourth year that Veterans for Peace Rachel Corrie Chapter 109 has brought the traveling Arlington Northwest Memorial to town. Read the rest
By Alice Zillah on Oct 2, 2006 in Peace Works 2006, Peace Works
“This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore. I still want to dance around to Pat Benetar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop.”
In April of 2006 hundreds of people came to Olympia, WA, from around the world for The Rachel Corrie Foundation’s inaugural Peace Works event. The two-day conference in April followed pre-conference activities and events and focused on the struggle in Palestine and Israel.
The foundation plans to conduct annual events to analyze war, racism, global economic inequality, oppression of women, and other forms of injustice, and to formulate a hopeful vision of a world community that responds constructively to its inhabitants’ rights, needs and aspirations.
The following films were produced from the first annual Rachel Corrie Foundation Peace Works - April 2006, courtesy pdxjustice.org.
PART 1
Diana Buttu - “From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State”
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer. In 2000, she left North America to move to Palestine in order to assist with the then “peace” negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel as one of the PLO’s legal advisors. With the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising against Israel’s occupation (and the breakdown of negotiations) Diana decided to remain in Palestine.
PART 2
Amira Hass - “From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State”
Amira Hass lives and works in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In 1993 she became the first Israeli reporter to live in Gaza, reporting on the Israeli occupation for Ha’aretz, an Israeli daily newspaper, which is available in English translation through their website. Amira Hass received the International World Press Freedom award for her work in the Gaza Strip. Her time there also resulted in her first book, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege. She is also author of Reporting from Ramallah : An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land. She spoke, along with Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, Diana Buttu, on the topic “From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State.”
These are a selection of photos from the Peace Works conference, held at South Puget Sound Community College, in Olympia, WA: See photos here.
• “Palestinian activists gather in Corrie’s hometown” by Simone Sagovac for the The Arab American News
• “Journalist describes daily life for Palestinians” by Diane Huber for The Olympian
By Alice Zillah on May 2, 2006 in Peace Works 2006
This are two of the speakers at The Rachel Corrie Foundation’s 2006 Peace Works Conference.
Jerry and Sis Levin are based in Palestine where they work for an authentic peacemaking environment, a condition they say “clearly does not exist.” The Levins promote nonviolent resistance and report about their first-hand experience with the Israeli occupation.
Jerry Levin works full time with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron and is the author of West BankDiary. He was the CNN Middle East Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1984 when he was kidnapped by extremists and became the first of the “forgotten American hostages.” He escaped 11 ½ months later through efforts by Sis Levin and an interfaith team of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends in the U.S. and across the Middle East. Read the rest
Five families — the Corries and four Palestinian familes — are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. over violations of international and state law. The case can at first seem confusing to those who have not been following the issue. , The Center for Constitutional Rights offers an in-depth, nicely organized look at the case, similar cases and the issues around "Corrie et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc." — Factsheet: Home Demolitions and Caterpillar
Phyllis Bennis' newly updated “Understanding the Palestinian-Israel Conflict” is an invaluable source for those wishing to have a better understanding of the roots of the violence in the Middle East. — Link
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