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Remembrance: Rachel Corrie 1979-2003

Mary La Rosa | 17.03.2005 04:24 | Repression | World

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Remembrance: Rachel Corrie 1979-2003


I would never call it final a resting place
the spot where she was crushed and smashed
into the landscape of a brutal Occupation

I would call it the restless spot

the place where a soul's liberation rises above
the one act that could best depict
the oppression she stood so firm against

Though crushed and smashed
oppression did not smash her spirit
and leaving traces of herself
beyond the mortal bruises
her unholy sacrifice
reclaims the spirit of non violent resistance

We pick up bits and pieces
We scoop up Rachel
and carry her along

We sing her spirit's song


What else do we do ?
Do we drive over other young women?
Do we blow ourselves up?
Do we tear down all of the homes in an entire town?
to build more walls and ghettoes?

In a restless place
there is Soul
that rises above hatred
and hovers in righteousness
and has no vengeance
only longing longing longing
for a peaceful
resting place.

In remembrance, Rachel Corrie 1979-2003


Mary La Rosa
March 16 2005

Mary La Rosa

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Rachel Died Because the ISM Lied

10.01.2006 03:58

The ISM's faked photograph
The ISM's faked photograph

Rachel Corrie was more useful to her "friends" dead than alive. The ISM Lied and Rachel Corrie Died.

*  http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85 "Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement, George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle that the recruitment of American student volunteers is useful to the Palestinian Movement because "if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.""

# A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel was worth more dead than alive. "'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday. '...Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs.'" Making of a Martyr by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers

# The ISM posted photomanipulated fake photos in conjunction with Rachel Corrie's death. Note that the man next to Rachel in the photo has no feet. She casts a shadow to her left but the much bigger bulldozer casts no shadow in that direction.

# Although several of Rachel's "friends" in the ISM testified vigorously about their eyewitness accounts of her death, but not one of them lifted a finger to pull her out of the slowly-moving bulldozer's path. This suggests at best a callous disregard for the young woman's life, and perhaps something even worse.

Fred the Redbeard

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