Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Rachel Corrie


Related Topics

In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  ei: CORRIE, Rachel -- Peace Activist
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 a Palestinian doctor, his wife, and three children from demolition.
On 16 March 2003, Photo story: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist, a report about the killing of Rachel Corrie was progressively published by EI founders Nigel Parry and Arjan El Fassed, as details of the events unfolded.
Rachel Corrie: On the Anniversary of a Death, Alison Weir (16 March 2005)
electronicintifada.net /bytopic/people/8.shtml   (816 words)

  
  In memory of Rachel Corrie - Palestine Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Corries expressed particular concern for international activists and Palestinians who are seeking to prevent home demolitions, as Rachel Corrie was on the Sunday she was killed.
Rachel Corrie, who was due to graduate this year from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was a longtime activist on environmental, social justice and peace issues.
Rachel Corrie's parents are not the only ones being inspired to action by her death.
www.palestinemonitor.org /Activism/Rachel_Corrie_echo.htm   (631 words)

  
 Death of a dreamer - Salon
The Israeli army maintains that Corrie's death was a "regrettable accident." Blaming her for recklessly interfering with a military operation, the IDF claimed she fell in front of the Israeli bulldozer, whose operator was not able to see her because of the bulldozer's small window.
Corrie had been engaged in various types of human shield work in the occupied territories, including walking with schoolchildren to protect them from Israeli fire, trying to save Palestinian wells from demolition, and the risky practice that resulted in her death, standing in front of massive bulldozers about to demolish Palestinian houses.
Corrie was also active in a variety of antiwar groups and environmental causes, and spent some of her time at Behavioral Health Resources, working with people who suffer from mental illness.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/03/21/corrie/index.html   (1298 words)

  
 CATERPILLAR D9 USED TO MURDER RACHEL CORRIE
Rachel and seven other ISM activists were in the Hi Es Salam area of Rafah, Gaza, trying to prevent the razing of Palestinian land and property.
Rachel's fellow activists have dug her a little out of the sand and are trying to keep her neck straight due to spinal injury.
Rachel was sitting in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her.
alawda.rso.wisc.edu /rachelcorrie.htm   (1029 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raised in Olympia, Washington, Corrie was the daughter of Craig Corrie, an insurance executive, and Cindy Corrie, an amateur flautist.
Corrie was struck by dirt and a slab of concrete resulting in her death...
The correspondence of Rachel Corrie, The Guardian, December 29, 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachel_Corrie   (3518 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie: A Real American Hero
Rachel represented all that is good about America, what we once were: brave, compassionate, caring, humane, seekers of peace and people who do something about what is wrong with the world instead of complaining in complacency.
Rachel Corrie lies on the ground fatally injured by the Israeli bulldozer, Rafah, Occupied Gaza, 16 March 2003.
Of late the story shifted from denying that Rachel was run over by the bulldozer, to maintaining that Rachel was not actually touched by the bulldozer, (despite the fact its imprints are visible on her) but killed by falling on a concrete block.
www.couplescompany.com /Features/Politics/2004/RachelCorrie.htm   (2716 words)

  
 Statement on the murder of Rachel Corrie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Rafah, Gaza Strip today Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American woman from Olympia, Washington, who was a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by the Israeli Army.
Rachel was standing in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her.
The murder of Rachel Corrie was clearly NOT an accident.
www.veteransforpeace.org /Statement_Rachel_Corrie_031703.htm   (522 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Activist who died for conviction
Rachel Corrie, the American killed by an Israeli army bulldozer, was a committed peace activist even before her arrival in the Gaza Strip in 2002.
Ms Corrie - who was wearing an orange fluorescent jacket to alert the bulldozer drivers to her presence in pictures taken by her colleagues - had previously described the hazards of her work.
Rachel's father Craig Corrie, speaking to the AP news agency from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, said: "We've tried to bring up our children to have a sense of community, a sense of community that everybody in the world belonged to.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2856433.stm   (662 words)

  
 Baird calls for U.S. investigation of Rachel Corrie's death   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corrie, a 23-year-old activist from Olympia, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer Sunday while protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes in the Rafah refugee camp.
Corrie, a senior at Evergreen State College in Olympia, was part of an international group that went to the Gaza strip to protest the tactics used by the Israeli military in Palestinian refugee camps.
Rachel's body is expected to return to the United States by the end of the week.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/113221_baird19ww.shtml   (839 words)

  
 US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : Support the Rachel Corrie Resolution!
Rachel Corrie was a 23 year-old American college student who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to prevent nonviolently the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003.
Rachel Corrie died protecting the home of a family from being demolished by the army of a foreign military occupation.
Rachel Corrie was a 23 year-old American college student who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bulldozer while trying to prevent nonviolently the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003.
www.endtheoccupation.org /article.php?id=83   (1192 words)

  
 Saving Private Lynch, Forgetting Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie, the activist, died in Israeli-occupied Palestine.
In a way, Corrie was harnessing the very thing that she disliked most about her country — the belief that American lives are worth more than any others ­ and trying to use it to save a few Palestinian homes from demolition.
Corrie's death, which made the papers for two days and then virtually disappeared, has met with almost total official silence, despite the fact that eye-witnesses claim it was a deliberate act.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0521-01.htm   (1365 words)

  
 Death of Activist Rachel Corrie
On March 16, 2003, in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza, Rachel Corrie, 23, an "international peace protester," dropped to her knees in front of an Israeli bulldozer.
The "before" picture shows Rachel standing in front of the bulldozer with a megaphone, some distance away and foreshortened by perspective, making her appear to be in clear sight of the bulldozer.
Rachel Corrie, an American college student from Olympia, Washington, was a pro-Palestinian activist and member of the International Solidarity Movement.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_current_rachel_corrie.php   (1108 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie's Legacy (Seattle Weekly)
The Corries believe that Caterpillar cannot separate itself from this devastation, and by suing the company they are joining a growing effort to hold corporations liable for international human-rights abuses carried out with their products or in the course of commerce.
"Unfortunately, Corrie and her friends decided that the house had to be the target and went to protect it," he writes in a follow-up e-mail, which fails to explain how the bulldozer came roaring toward her as she stood, foolishly or not, in front of that house.
Rachel Corrie's Legacy — The 23-year-old's 2003 death in Israel poses challenging questions — in court and out.
www.seattleweekly.com /news/0619/rachel-corrie.php   (1380 words)

  
 Rachel-Corrie.com - Articles, Photos, Writings On Israel's Murder Of Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie, the activist, died in Israeli-occupied Palestine.
Corrie's death, which made the papers for two days and then virtually disappeared, has met with almost total official silence, despite the fact that eyewitnesses claim it was a deliberate act.
During the attack on Iraq, some of Corrie's friends e-mailed her picture to MSNBC asking that it be included on the station's "wall of heroes," along with Jessica Lynch.
www.rachel-corrie.com   (1352 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie Palestinian Propaganda
Rachel Corrie was described as being seated on the ground, not standing when she was accidentally run over by the Bulldozer.
Her friends are holding Corrie in this photo, despite the report I read of one witness saying that she claimed her back was broken.
Rachel Corrie was accidentally killed in Gaza when she stood atop a mound as a bulldozer was excavating tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza.
www.geocities.com /rachav/Rachel_Corrie_Propaganda.html   (1023 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie Murdered By Israelis |  U.S. News & World News Digest | USNEWSLINK | © 2003
Corrie described a Feb. 14 standoff in which members of her group "stood in the path of the bulldozers and were physically pushed with the shovel backwards, taking shelter in a house." She added that "the bulldozer then proceeded on its course, demolishing one side of the house" with the protesters still inside.
Rachel was a very modest and responsible person who was the heart and soul of the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, a group she had originally beginning working with as part of her study in the Local Knowledge program taught by Anne Fischel and Lin Nelson.
Rachel was standing in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her.
www.usnewslink.com /rachelcorrie.htm   (4926 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie - Topic Index : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rachel Corrie was in clear view of the Israeli bulldozer driver no matter what else is said.
Rachel Corrie, 23 year old activist with the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza, was deliberately run over by an Israeli Forces tank when she tried to prevent a home...
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was killed on March 16 when she was run over by an Israeli bulldozer.
sf.indymedia.org /corrie/corrie13.html   (605 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie Memorial Website
Rachel Corrie: Answers needed Seattlepi.com Monday, August 15, 2005 Hurndall's shooter, ex-sergeant Taysir Hayb, is now the first Israeli soldier to be convicted of manslaughter since the start of the intifada five years ago.
We chose Rachel's words rather than those of the thousands of Palestinian or Israeli victims because of the quality and accessibility of the writing: as Rickman says, "The activist part of her life is absolutely matched by the imaginative part of her life.
Rachel Corrie was killed when an Israeli Army bulldozer crushed her during an operation in March of this year.
www.criticalconcern.com /rachelcorrie.html   (3171 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie page
For me, these will be joined by the image of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old college student, especially the blurry snapshots of Rachel standing in front of a bulldozer trying to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor and his family.
Rachel Corrie, whose photograph is on the cover, died on March 17 when the bulldozer driver, whom Rachel had been speaking to minutes before, ran over her, crushing her body in a heap of dirt.
And many are already experiencing the benefits of creating the foundations of a better world, since the process itself can feed the soul, nourish families and communities, and infuse life with a meaning far larger than that provided by domination or over-consumption.
www.spinninglobe.net /corrierachel.htm   (567 words)

  
 Something... and Half of Something
Yes, on March 16, 2003, in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza, Rachel Corrie, 23, an "international peace protester," dropped to her knees in front of an Israeli bulldozer during an IDF anti-terrorism action.
The group to which Rachel Corrie belonged, the International Solidarity Movement, published "before" and "after" pictures claiming to show that the bulldozer operator could in fact see her.
You might have heard of Rachel Corrie, the demented anti-American moonbat with a particular grudge against Israel who famously displayed the wisdom for which her kind is so well known by deliberately standing in front of an Israeli bulldozer in...
www.lindasog.com /mt/archives/2005/03/rachel_corrie_r.html   (1222 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie: A Beautiful Flower Plucked By Heartless Monsters - Murder By Army Bulldozer 17 March 2003
Rachel had been working as an ISM [International Solidarity Movement] activist in Rafah for seven weeks when she was killed trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes and property in the Hi Salaam area of Rafah.
Rachel was sitting in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her.
Rachel joins 1,900 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since September 2000, Rachel had been staying in Palestinian homes threatened with illegal demolition, and today Rachel was standing with other non-violent international activists in front of a home scheduled for illegal demolition.
www.doublestandards.org /corrie1.html   (854 words)

  
 We Won’t Forget Rachel Corrie
Rachel and a handful of others practicing Gandhian nonviolence in the Gaza Strip had been pleading with Israeli soldiers for two hours not to destroy a Palestinian family home.
Rachel Corrie’s death may prove to be another pivotal point of escalation.
On the 16 March, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer.
www.ifamericansknew.org /cur_sit/corrie.html   (849 words)

  
 CNN.com - Israeli bulldozer kills American protester - Mar. 25, 2003
Friends and family remember the 'loving spirit' of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old killed by a bulldozer in Gaza while protesting against Israel occupation.
The woman, Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Washington, was taken to a hospital, where she died of her injuries.
Corrie had recently appeared in a televised mock trial in Gaza in which President Bush was accused of war crimes for his alleged support of Israel's actions in Gaza.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/16/rafah.death   (701 words)

  
 Rachel Corrie Links
Rachel's friend Alice from ISM on Sept, 11th - I honestly feel that if it had to happen anywhere, I'm glad it happened in America.
Rachel Corrie was in Gaza under the sponsorship of the International Solidarity Movement.
Rachel Corrie wears her dove headgear while working on a model of Earth.
www.landofisrael.info /News/2003/3/18/Rachel_Corrie_Links.html   (652 words)

  
 The Death of Rachel Corrie
Corrie aspired to be a writer or an artist, filling her messy apartment with half-finished sculptures and poetry, and dabbled in political activISM.
Corrie was so shaken by the experience that she resumed the smoking habit she had quit a year earlier.
Corrie had "one seven-centimeter cut on the left side of her upper lip, hematoma, and severe cyanosis of the full face, neck, and upper body indicative of suffocation." Her lungs had been crushed, her left clavicle and ribs were fractured, vital organs had ruptured.
www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2003/09/ma_497_01.html   (7582 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.