The Berkeley opening of the book tour will be airing on CSPAN-2 this weekend at the following times:

Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM EST (4:00 PM PST)
Sunday, May 18, at 2:00 AM EST (Saturday 11PM PST)

Click here to watch

Jen Marlowe, a documentary filmmaker, human rights activist, and family friend of the Corries, recently visited Gaza . Here is a piece she wrote about her experiences, originally posted on TomDispatch.com and reposted with kind permission from Jen.

The Tightening Noose

Gaza under Hamas, Gaza under Siege
By Jen Marlowe

Images from Rafah flicker on my computer screen. Gazans blowing up chunks of the wall that stood between them and Egypt, punching holes in the largest open-air prison in the world and streaming across the border. An incredible refusal to submit.

I learn via email that my friend Khaled Nasrallah rented a truck in order to drive food and medicine from Egypt into the Gaza Strip. He was acting for no humanitarian organization. He’s just a resident of Rafah, a Palestinian town which borders Egypt, with a deep need to help and an opportunity to seize.
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Hi! My name is Flat Stanley! I come from a book about a kid named Stanley whose bulletin board fell on him during the night and made him two-dimensional.
My seven-year old friend Alex drew me as part of his second grade class project and then sent me to his Aunt Jen to take care of for two months. Aunt Jen took me with her to Palestine and Israel and boy did I have an adventure unlike any other Flat Stanley in Alex’s class–in the whole world,I bet!
Hope you enjoy seeing my pictures and hearing my stories!
Your friend,
Flat Stanley

( Read more about my trip… )

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.

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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

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