DA AL – HEWAR

Peace activist Rachel Corrie is shown at the Burning Man festival in a photo from September 2002, in Black Rock City, Nev. Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. Israeli military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal called her death an accident. State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said the U.S. government had asked Israeli officials for a full investigation. (AP Photo/Denny Sternstein)

On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American college student and peace activist from Olympia, Washington was murderously crushed under the tracks of a 60-ton American made Caterpillar bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier while he was demolishing the Rafah home of Palestinian Dr. Samir Nasrallah in the Gaza Strip. Rachel had been working for seven weeks in Gaza opposing the destruction homes as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. Corrie is the first foreign peace activist to be killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising for freedom more than 29 months ago. Rachel was a student at Evergreen College in Olympia and is described as a campus leader and a person of keen intellect, bravery, and gentleness.

Recently, she wrote to her mother: “Just want to write to my Mom and tell her that I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious, genocide and I’m scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for all of us to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore.”

Protest Israel’s deliberate and senseless murder of an American citizen. Demand that the Congress freeze continued American aid to Israel by contacting your senators and representative through: http://cflweb.org

Call the White House Comment Line at (202) 456-1414. Express your outrage about Rachel’s murder and in her memory demand that the United States refuse to grant Israel an additional $14 billion in aid as long as the Palestinian genocide continues during Israel’s brutal military occupation of Palestinian territory. 

Contact Caterpillar, Inc. and demand that Caterpillar end its business relationship with Israel. Caterpillar, Inc., 100 N.E. Adams St., Peoria, Illinois 61629, (309) 675-1000.