Remember Rachel Corrie

Please visit this site to learn more about Rachel Corrie and find out what you can do to support her memory and further her struggle:

And here is a Democracy Now report marking the sixth anniversary of her death.

Rachel died a year before I got to college. I learned about her in a discussion about The Diamondback, my university's (The University of Maryland's) student newspaper. Some friends of mine planted themselves inside The Diamondback's newsroom and refused to leave in protest because of a nasty political cartoon ridiculing Rachel's death and claiming that she was doing nothing more than "protecting terrorists" and basically got what she deserved.

The more I learn about her, the more I wish I had met her. How does a privileged blond girl from Washington state become a martyr for the Palestinian cause? Why hasn't there been more outrage from her fellow countrymen? Do Americans still not understand that Israel routinely bulldozes the homes of innocent Palestinians for no other purpose than to expropriate their lands?

Rachel died a noble death. I'm sure all of those who continue to defame her (most of them in ignorance, acting as if she wanted to be crushed when in fact the bulldozer had trapped her) secretly wish they had an iota of her courage. They wish their lives had such a purpose -- that they, too, can fight for something greater than themselves and not simply repeat the same propaganda justifying the illegal actions of the Israelis until it becomes fact.

When will the masses of this country stand up for what is just and condemn the military support their country provides Israel to maintain its occupation?