The Olympia Film Festival proudly presents the Northwest premiere of Simone Bitton’s (Wall) documentary Rachel, about Olympia native and Evergreen State College senior Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 while attempting to prevent a Palestinian family’s home in the Gaza Strip from being bulldozed by the Israeli Defense Force. The film is a meticulous […]

Ali Abunimah, author and co-founder of the online publication “Electronic Intifada,” will speak. Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist, a graduate of Princeton and the University of Chicago, and the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. South Puget Sound Community College, March 8 7pm. SPSCC Building 26, Room 105. It […]

A talk by Cindy and Craig Corrie What is the current situation in Gaza and the U.S. responsibility in it? How can we, as U.S. citizens, take a constructive role in creating a foreign policy in line with universal human rights? Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while protecting the […]

On the seventh anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie - the Olympian woman crushed to death by an Israeli military Caterpillar bulldozer as she stood protecting a Palestinian families home in Gaza - we come together to remember Rachel and to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people who continue to suffer under Israeli […]

Rabbi Brant Rosen, Ta'anit Tzedek Ta'anit Tzedek - Jewish Fast for Gaza has begun a new initiative: "Resisting the Siege: Conversations With Gazans." On each monthly fast day (the third Thursday of every month) we will convene a conference call featuring a Gazan Palestinian who will discuss his/her experience of life in Gaza, the effects […]