Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture 2018: Huwaida Arraf

Join keynote speaker Huwaida Arraf as she speaks about Women, Activism, and Freedom.

SPSCC Olympia Campus
Building 26, Room 102
March 19, 12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian-American attorney and human rights activist. Over the past two decades Huwaida has been involved in a number of legal and grassroots initiatives for Palestinian rights. In 2001, she co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led non-violent resistance movement, which has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Huwaida is the former Chairperson of the Free Gaza Movement, and from August to December 2008, led 5 successful sea voyages to the Gaza Strip to confront and challenge Israel’s illegal blockade on the 2 million Palestinians living there. Huwaida is co-editor of the book “Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement.” She currently practices civil rights law in Detroit.

Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on 16 March 2003, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.