I know there isnt a day gone by in which we have to wake up to read or hear of yet another atrocity carried out in the name of freedom.

I am not being selfish and do not mean to minimise on the least the lives of the thousands of Palestinian lives murdered until now. Yet today disaster struck even closer to home when I read how Rachel Corrie, an Evergreen student from my adopted town of Olympia, was bullozed to death. Words alone can and will not express the feeling of sorrow, the weight of pain.

And words alone will not express the feeling of rage. This rage will have to be written, yes. This rage will have to be acted upon.

THEIR message is clear. They did not want a Rachel Corrie standing there, listening and watching as they carry out the most barbarous acts of genocide. Turns out they can buy the media to look the other way, but they can not buy Rachel Corries to watch their murderous sprees and remain impressive, silent. So they had to kill her. They had to blatantly bulldoze her. Not only to try and bury her voice, her stance, her courage and humanity--but to send a clear message to fellow peace activists: "stay clear, the carnage must go on".

Well, that is not going to happen. Rachel spirit remains there; standing, watching, fighting. She wasnt forgiving for the atrocities being carried out to Palestinians and she is not going to be any less forgiving now.

Nor will forgive her extended family of activists around the world.

Your memory will be held dearly, Rachel. We will not forget.

Everyone who can onto a plane now. Her spirit waits not under, but atop that demolished home which she defended with her life.

Lets help rebuild it. Lets join her dream of a just and dignified peace for the people she gave everything.