IN MEMORIAM: Rachel Corrie 1979 – 2003 March 12, 2010
EDITOR’S NOTE: On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corrie was mowed down by an Israeli bulldozer in Palestine. She never had a chance as she bravely faced the armed bulldozer in a vain bid to stop it demolishing a home where she had been welcomed by a Palestinian family. Being a US citizen had not protected her, nor had her orange flak jacket as the bulldozer advanced pushing the dirt up against her and running over her as she fell. She had come to Palestine as a peace activist wanting only to help a people denied justice and freedom. Her death was a big price to pay for championing human rights, but the tragedy spawned in death what it would never have in her life – a growing recognition the world over about Israel’s shocking oppression of Palestine and a strong and lasting connectedness between activists everywhere to free Palestine. She remains alive in many people’s hearts and memories and she herself would have said that her death is no more tragic than that suffered by Palestinians almost every day. And so, in a place where heroic acts loom larger than life, there is no greater tribute to Rachel Corrie than to continue the struggle for human rights and peace in any way we can.
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Thanks so much, I am going to use this as I visit Meditation groups in two prisons tomorrow. We will sit, practice, and chant in her memory and for peace in Palestine!
That is a lovely tribute Bob.