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Listen Up: Caterpillar Man song honors Rachel Corrie

Caterpillar Man by Jess Rice Eight years ago, I remember hearing about Rachel Corrie’s death and something inside my soul changed that will never be the same. A few weeks later, my friend and talented singer/songwriter Jess Rice composed a haunting anthem … Continue reading

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Another American family, this time the Jilanis, will have to grieve without justice over Israeli killing

Emily Henochowicz, Tristan Anderson, Furkan Dogan, Brian Avery, Rachel Corrie and more–all American citizens killed or severely injured by Israel with no justice served and barely a peep heard from U.S. authorities. Now, add Ziad Jilani, who was a permanent … Continue reading

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‘Daily Kos’ banned me and smeared Rachel Corrie, but we can’t give up on the Democratic Party

Daily Kos is the “premier online political community with 2.5 million unique visitors per month and 250,000 registered users.”   Its stated purpose is simple: “It’s a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory.” Well, that’s a warning right … Continue reading

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Thinking of Rachel Corrie during the olive harvest in the Galilee

It is olive gathering season and people in Arrabeh are at it again. This year the crop is good. A friend from Jerusalem had asked us for two jerry cans of fresh olive oil direct from the press. Raja Shehadeh … Continue reading

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Corries urge: Press Obama to end sales of Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel

As we have noted, Caterpillar has suspended the delivery of bulldozers to Israel apparently because of the important suit that the family of Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a Caterpillar bulldozer in occupied Rafah in 2003, has brought against … Continue reading

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Caterpillar freeze and ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ honor suggest advance of boycott movement

This is important and I’ve been sitting on it, sorry. Four points: –Caterpillar has temporarily stopped delivering bulldozers to Israel. JPost: Caterpillar, the company which supplies the IDF with bulldozers, has announced that it is delaying the supply of D9 … Continue reading

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Back to Gaza

I arrived in Gaza on Thursday. This the first time I’ve been back to any corner of Palestine since I was deported by Israel in January. It took a week of paperwork and waiting in Cairo to get approval from … Continue reading

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‘Rachel’ doc’y to launch in NY in October

We’ve just learned that “Rachel,” Simone Bitton’s documentary about the killing of Rachel Corrie in Gaza in 2003, will have its official launch for distribution in the U.S. in New York in ten days. And how things go in New … Continue reading

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TIME on the Corrie trial: ‘it has already validated anew Richard Nixon’s timeless observation that it is the cover-up that does you in’

Karl Vick has done it again. A few days after angering the ADL for his reporting on Israeli feelings toward the peace process, Vick reports from the Corrie trial in Haifa. From Israel’s Military on the Spot Over Activist’s Death: … Continue reading

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‘There Are No Civilians In Wartime’: Rachel Corrie’s family confronts the Israeli military in court

In a small courtroom in Haifa’s District Court, a colonel in the Israeli engineering corps who wrote a manual for the bulldozer units that razed the Rafah Refugee Camp in 2003 offered his opinion on the killing of the American … Continue reading

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