On April 10, Rachel’ Corrie’s birthday, the community is invited to attend the rededication of the Rachel Corrie Memorial at The Evergreen State College (TESC).
There will be readings of Rachel’s writings, poetry, music, and more to celebrate TESC’s commitment to continue to honor Rachel.
Due to weather this event on March 13 has been rescheduled. The same organizers are moving the event to happen on March 16 at Cherry Street Village, 720 – 25th Ave, Seattle.
Join the Palestine Narrates film series for a screening and discussion of Rachel (2009) to mark Rachel Corrie’s 23rd yarzheit – the anniversary of her death. The investigative documentary, made 6 years after Rachel’s killing by an Israeli armored bulldozer, shows the life, activism, and legacy of a young international solidarity activist from Olympia.
After the movie, Rachel’s parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, and representatives of the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led non-violent resistance movement which guided Rachel’s activism in Gaza, will offer their thoughts and answer audience questions. As always, the Nablus Collection will bring Nabulsi olive oil, soap, za’atar and other items.
This film will bring up themes of international solidarity, the double meanings of witness/shaheed/martyr, and the continuities in Gaza from 2009 to today. We hope to see you and your beloveds there.
Palestine Narrates is a project of JVP Seattle.
This event is free and open to the public.
Shoes For Sidra is a community art installation dedicated to Sidra Hassouna, a 7-year-old Palestinian girl, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Join us to show grief to Sidra and over 16,500* children killed in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Friday, April 11, 2025, 7-9 PM
The United Churches of Olympia Social Hall
110 11th Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98501
Sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice (RCF) & Palestine Action of Sound Sound (PASS)
Dr. Mimi Syed, a local emergency room physician who made two recent trips to the Gaza Strip will speak in Olympia, Friday, April 11th, 7-9 pm, at The United Churches of Olympia Social Hall, 110 11th Ave SE, in downtown Olympia.
Dr. Syed is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and an assistant clinical professor at the University of Washington and Washington State University. From August 8 to September 5, 2024, and from December 3 to December 31, 2024, Dr. Syed served in both al-Aqsa and Nasser Hospitals in Gaza. She will discuss her experience there and the impact of the current and ongoing war on Gaza’s children, the injuries she saw and treated, the targeting of hospitals and healthcare workers by the Israeli military, and the lack of “basic life essentials” for the people of Gaza. Some images in this presentation may be unsettling.
Dr. Emily Antoon-Walsh, pediatrician, will introduce Dr. Syed and talk about her own work with the Institute for Understanding Anti-Palestinian Racism. The presentations will be followed by Q&A.
The educational event is sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS) in remembrance of activist Rachel Corrie’s stand in Gaza on March 16, 2003, as she stood to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home and whose birth day is celebrated on April 10th. Palestinian sweets will be provided. The free event is open to the public and all are welcome.
For information contact info@rachelcorriefoundation.
The Olympia Film Society, in conjunction with the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, will screen the documentary film Foragers, Thursday, April 11th, at the Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave SE, in Olympia. Doors open at 6 p.m, and the film will screen at 7 p.m.
With “wry humor and a meditative pace,” the film depicts the dramas around the Palestinian custom of foraging for wild edible plants, and the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The film’s director, Jumana Manna, is a Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker whose “work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place.”
The 64-minute documentary will be followed by a post-film presentation and Q&A with Savvina Chowdhury, Political Economy and Environmental Justice Professor at The Evergreen State College, and by Peter Bohmer, representing the recently formed Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS).
The film event will mark and celebrate the 45th birthday of local activist Rachel Corrie, killed by the Israeli military in 2003 as she stood to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Gaza. Rachel’s mother, Cindy Corrie, will introduce the documentary. Proceeds from the film screening will benefit Palestinian children in Gaza.
Olympita, the Palestinian owned food truck, will have a pop up, serving Za’atar pie and other delicious food!
Tickets are available online now and at the box office 60 minutes before showtime.
$13 General Admission & $10 for OFS members
All Proceeds Benefit Palestinian Children in Gaza.
