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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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La Voz de Aztlan

http://www.aztlan.net

March 20, 2003

To: Congressman Brian Baird

From: Albert Wallen, California, USA

Re: Rachel Corrie

Dear Sir,

It was heartbreaking to find out about the death of Rachel Corrie run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. What is troubling about it is that a young woman with a fiery personality would travel to a combat zone to put her and others in a very dangerous situation. What was Rachel Corrie doing in front of a bulldozer in Gaza from all places? Israel is an American ally and an American passport does insure a preferential treatment in that country. Unfortunately, when the bullets are flying it is hard to check the identity of a person. Our president, George W. Bush, has said that in a war “some unintended casualties are inevitable”.

Gaza is the hotbed for the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc. terrorists, homicide bombers that perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The demolition of houses, as unfortunate as it is, happens to be a necessary deterrent in the conflict against the terrorists. America has gone halfway across the world to fight the terrorist evil. Israel is fighting that evil right in her own backyard. It is known that Israel gives the civilians residing in the buildings an advance notice. The innocent Israeli and even some American citizens who were blown up into pieces by the homicide Palestinian Arab terrorists did not get such notices. The Palestinian Arab leadership has integrated the killings of the innocent civilians into their strategy to defeat and destroy Israel. This is a conflict that is being waged not just on the battlefield but also in the media. In fact, it is expected that Iraq will do exactly the same.

Activism is great! However, it must be combined with a good common sense of reality. Just because Israel is a democratic, open society with more reporters per square mile than any other place on this planet, is no guarantee of safety when one departs for Gaza, the hub of the Hamas terrorists.

There are many other troubled spots in the world like Chechnya, the Indian province of Kashmir, Columbia, the Philippines, Nigeria, Somalia, etc., that require the activists’ attention. However, the networks cannot afford the liability insurance rates that are required to sent the reporters in there. Consequently, the reporting from such places is limited and does not generate the strong emotions.

The late Rachel Corrie had great and honorable intentions. Unfortunately she channeled them in the wrong direction.

...illegal occupation? Can we say wide spread violations of the 4 Geneva Conventions of 1949? Sure we can.

Israel is in the West Bank Illegally and are in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 and have been for THIRTY YEARS!

Sacrifice Bombings did not start until 1994. They are a last desperate act of a desperate people. When all they have left is their lives, made miserable by the ILLEGAL ISRAELI OCCUPATION for THIRTY YEARS one might understand their desperation.

When the Israeli's practice indiscriminate attacks, and revenge, it might, don't you think, cause a little resentment?

The house being Killdozed by the Israeli's was not the house of a known Terrorist or Terrorist Supect but the house of a Doctor. It was being torn down so that ISRAELI SNIPERS would have a better view from their NEW IRON CURTAIN.

Dear Anti-War Brothers and Sisters,

Please join my movement called Protestors Entertainers Newsreporters In Support of Saddam, otherwise known as:

PENIS

Please help us unite against straight people and fight against American unilat.....oh wait, my organization acronyms make up the word penis, oh my, OOPS!

Actually, I eat Husseins penis each and everyday, so yeah, screw the war movement!

WHOOHOO!!!!

NO BLOOD FOR OIL!

CORRIE WAS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT STANDING IN FRONT OF A BULLDOZER COULD GET YOU KILLED?

She knew she was is danger, it's called not being a COWARD

when you know what is right or wrong and are WILLING to

Put your life on the line for your beliefs.

What I don't understand is why the IDF didn't have personnel there to move the fool out of the way.

...to keep repeating the truth to kill the lies.

They did not move her because they have lost their humanity.

The house being Killdozed by the Israeli's was not the house of a known Terrorist or Terrorist Supect but the house of a Doctor. It was being torn down so that ISRAELI SNIPERS would have a better view from their NEW IRON CURTAIN.

Be part of Palestine Terrorism, you lose your hose, OK fine. As the Police here move the Protesting fools out of the way so that I don't run their lame butts over, IDF needs to help the Lame.

.....evil like America and the free world. When will you democratic facists learn that communism is better than you. Come with me to eat more Hussein's cock! MMMmmmmMMMM!!!! Yummy!