RACHEL CORRIE: 15 YEARS LATER

Posted on February 12, 2018

Please join RCF on March 16th & 17th to remember Rachel Corrie and celebrate 15 years of Palestinian solidarity and community organizing!

There are two special events this year, both featuring guest speakers Huwaida Arraf and Cindy & Craig Corrie, in Olympia and Seattle:

March 16th: Annual Community Potluck (Olympia, WA)

March 17th: Fundraiser to raise $15,000 for work in Rachel’s name (Seattle, WA)

Both events are free and open to the public but do require an RSVP through our ticketing pages.

Please contact RCF at (360) 754-3998 if you have any questions.

Environment & Politics, US to Palestine

Posted on November 10, 2016

*Artwork by Ethar Hamid

10 December 2016 – International Day of Human Rights – 6 to 9pm

Abigail Stuart House – 1002 Washington St. SE, Olympia, WA 98501

$35 ticket includes dinner and 2 drinks

On Human Rights Day, 6 to 9pm Saturday 10 December 2016, the Rachel Corrie Foundation will host a social justice bash in Olympia, Washington.

The featured discussion will highlight the first-hand experiences of people working on the front lines of environmental and political activism in the US and Palestine. Our guest speakers this year, MorningStar Means and Earth-Feather Sovereign, will present “Standing Rock, Human Rights and Women” in a keynote talk. We hope to generate discussion of key questions including: How does settler colonialism in North America compare to settler colonialism in Palestine? How are struggles of indigenous people collaborating and what can we do to support? This conversation will assist in developing our understanding of how powerful principled allyship and what ‘showing up’ to support struggles should look like. Join us on our Facebook page.

These are some of the main themes we will discuss together while we enjoy delicious food by local chefs Twana Catering and a musical performance by Benjamin SittingBull a Plains Indian singer, flutist and drummer. We will serve locally-brewed beer donated by 3 Magnets. RCF is committed to practicing engaged solidarity. We have much in store and to reveal for 2017.

This fundraiser will benefit RCF projects to continue their grassroots efforts and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Water Protectors continue their fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

#WaterIsLife #NoDAPL

Join us for the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s commemoration of Human Rights Day 2016 for an evening of music, food and conversation. Click here to purchase your tickets now! We are very excited to see you December, 10th. Join us on our Facebook page.

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

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On 10 December 1948, the newly founded United Nations General Assembly adopted the universal declaration of human rights considered to be the origin of the era of rights and human rights. Human rights day has been officially commemorated since 1950. 48 countries voted for adopting the commemoration and 8 abstained.

The UDHR, together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, form the so-called International Bill of Human Rights.

Follow #Standup4Rights, #HumanRightsDay

The Exiled Palestinians: Stateless Palestinians from the Camps in Lebanon

Posted on May 11, 2016

Thursday, May 26th at 7:30 pm
Fircrest United Methodist Church
(6308 South 19th) in Tacoma, WA

On May 14, 1948, as Zionist leader David Ben Gurion was proclaiming a Jewish state in Palestine, his heavily armed troops seized the ancient Palestinian Arab town of al-Zeeb and drove out most of the inhabitants. Eighteen-year-old Mariam Fathallah was one of them. She and her young husband and their families were forced to flee to Lebanon, along with most of the town. By the end of the year, the 4,000 year old community had been leveled to the ground. More than half the Arab Palestinians in Palestine were killed or expelled and more than half of the cities, towns and villages of Palestine were made to disappear, a crime that Palestinians call al-Nakba (the Catastrophe).

Mariam, now 86 years old, wants to meet you and tell her story in person. So does Amena Ashkar,the granddaughter and great granddaughter of other Nakba survivors, who has known no other home than refugee camps.

COME AND HEAR THEIR STORIES. COME AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS.

Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Tacoma and The Rachel Corrie Foundation.

May 3 — Peace Works 2016: The Inaugural Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture featuring Ilan Pappé

Posted on January 22, 2016

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice Presents Peace Works 2016

The Inaugural
Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture

Featuring world-renowned historian & activist

Ilan Pappé
“Why is Palestine Still the Issue?”

May 3, 2016 — 6:30 PM
The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at
The Evergreen State College

This event is free and open to the public, but you must RSVP to reserve a seat. Click here to reserve your spot today!

Co-Sponsored By:

**ReInterpreting Liberation: Third World Movements and Migrations; U.S. Foreign Policy & The Roots of Terrorism; Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights**; Creative Solutions: Activism, Advocacy and Self-Determination in Indian Country; A New Middle East?: Diagrams, Diagnosis, and Power; Americans Committed to Justice and Truth; Jewish Voice for Peace – Portland; Rebuilding Alliance; Diversity, Multiculturalism and Public Education; Political Economy and Social Movements: Race, Class, and Gender; Tree of Life Educational Fund; Northfielders for Justice in Palestine; Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network; Jewish Voice for Peace – Tacoma; G.I. Voice

* – Evergreen State College Program

We need your help! We welcome cosponsors who want to be a part of spearheading this inaugural Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture and to ensure that it is a success for years to come. Your support will provide for the staffing and organization, the promotion, and the realization of this first and future event. You will help make possible the much needed conversations that this new project will provide. Can you help us? We would love to include you, your organization, or your business as a cosponsor for 2016 Peace Works and for its launch of the Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture!

Donation levels begin at $50.

Simply fill out the Peace Works 2016 – Cosponsorship Support Form OR go to our online Co-sponsorship page and let us know how you can contribute, so we can proceed confidently, knowing you are with us!

Questions? Feel free to contact us by email or call (360) 754-3998.