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Tuesday March 18, 2003

Family of Rachel Corrie to Attend Vigil

in Front of Israeli Embassy

The family of the 23 year old peace activist who was

deliberately crushed to death by an Israeli army

bulldozer on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, will be

attending a candlelight vigil in front of the Israeli

Embassy in Washington D.C. this evening at 5:30 P.M.

(EST). Parents Craig and Cindy Corrie, along with

their son, Chris Corrie said that they will attend

the candlelight vigil in memory of their daughter

Rachel.

Rachel was protesting the Israeli policy of

demolishing Palestinian homes and was standing in

front of a home in Rafah, located in the Gaza Strip,

urging the bulldozer driver to stop, when the Israeli

Army driver ran over her forwards and backwards.

The bulldozer crushed her head and chest and she died

a few minutes later in a Palestinian hospital. A

number of witnesses said that the Israeli Army

bulldozer driver ran over Rachel Corrie on purpose.

The public in the area is encouraged to attend the

vigil to commemorate the life and protest the tragic

death of the courageous American peace activist,

Rachel Corrie. Her friends and family will not let

her death go in vain and will continue to fight the

inhumane Israeli policy of destroying Palestinian

homes, and for the freedom and justice that Rachel

gave her life for. The Israeli Embassy in Washington

D.C. is located at International Drive and Van Ness

Street.

In addition, today at 2pm, residents of Los Angeles

who have been to Palestine as human rights observers

will hold a Press Conference at the Offices of

Zionist U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer located at 312 N.

Spring Street.

The organizers of the press conference are calling on

the United States Government to: 1) Conduct a Full

and Independent Inquiry in the Death of Rachel Corrie

at the hands of the Israeli Military; 2) Take

Responsibility for the Role that United States

Military Aid played in her death; 3) End all US

Military Aid to Israel; and 4)Condemn the violent

escalation of Israeli military actions in Palestine

that have claimed hundreds of lives in the past few

weeks.

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Other Israeli Embassies and Consulates

that may see protests in the near furure:

Los Angeles

6380 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1700

Los Angeles, CA 90048

San Francisco

456 Montgomery Street, Suite 2100

San Francisco, CA 94104

New York

800 Second Avenue (between 42nd and 43rd)

New York, NY 10017

Chicago

111 E. Wacker Dr., Suite 1308

Chicago, IL 60601

Boston

20 Park Plaza, Suite 1020

Boston, MA 02116

Houston

24 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1500

Houston, Texas 77046

Miami

100 North Biscayne Blvd. Suite 1800

Miami, FL 33132



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