Not Afraid to Look

Please join the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s kick-off Martin Luther King memorial weekend with an (early) 7 am skype call January 18th with our comrades in Gaza City, Edinburgh, and London! These three cities are concurrently displaying a photo exhibit, Not Afraid to Look: In Loving Memory of Tom Hurndall and Rachel Corrie.

Saturday, January 18th, marks the five-year anniversary of the end of “Operation Cast Lead,” a three week long military assault on Gaza. January 13th, the day the exhibit opens, marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of Tom Hurndall in 2004, an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist wounded on April 11, 2003, in Gaza by an Israel Defense Forces sniper.

The photo exhibit, Not Afraid to Look: In Loving Memory of Tom Hurndall and Rachel Corrie is organized by the Network of Photographers for Palestine. The compilation of photographs Rachel and Tom took while in Gaza in 2003, as well as recent photos highlighting the current situation in Gaza, is being displayed simultaneously across the world.

The 7 AM Skype Call in Olympia will connect our community and the three cities currently displaying the exhibit (Gaza City, Edinburgh, London). The intention is to help forge solidarity and connections across borders. At 7:10 there will be a series of musical and spoken performances, followed at 7:40 by a discussion between the four hosting communities. The call will end at 8:30 a.m. with opportunity for local groups to debrief among themselves. Bagels and coffee will be available!

If you want to be a part of this early morning, international conversation, please RSVP to [email protected] or call the Rachel Corrie Foundation office at (360) 754-3998 by Monday, January 13th, so we can make appropriate accommodations for all interested. We look forward to honoring the memory of Martin Luther King by raising our voices for justice and freedom in Gaza.