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Showing posts with label rachel corrie. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Geopolitiks: Eva Bartlett of InGaza on Human Rights in Palestine
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Monday, May 31, 2010
worldwide condemnation of israel attack on gaza aid ship
israel will once again get away with murder
from kurt nimmo: Israel will not suffer meaningful consequence for its brutal attack on a flotilla of ships headed for Gaza earlier today. It is reported the attack killed 20 humanitarian activists. The military commando raid set off a storm of international protest and drew condemnations from leaders of Spain, Sweden, France, Germany, the U.N., the European Union and Arab League.
Not that it matters. Israel is basically allowed to kill anybody who opposes its annexation of Arab land and the wanton murder of Palestinians.
The Israeli military killed 34 and wounded 171 crew members aboard the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, during the Arab-Israeli war and suffered no consequence. Israel said it had confused the intelligence ship for an Egyptian vessel. Many intelligence and military officials dispute Israel’s explanation, but that does not matter. Israel has a carte blanche to murder at will. It is almost completely irrelevant when nations and aggrieved parties complain.
from kurt nimmo: Israel will not suffer meaningful consequence for its brutal attack on a flotilla of ships headed for Gaza earlier today. It is reported the attack killed 20 humanitarian activists. The military commando raid set off a storm of international protest and drew condemnations from leaders of Spain, Sweden, France, Germany, the U.N., the European Union and Arab League.Not that it matters. Israel is basically allowed to kill anybody who opposes its annexation of Arab land and the wanton murder of Palestinians.
The Israeli military killed 34 and wounded 171 crew members aboard the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, during the Arab-Israeli war and suffered no consequence. Israel said it had confused the intelligence ship for an Egyptian vessel. Many intelligence and military officials dispute Israel’s explanation, but that does not matter. Israel has a carte blanche to murder at will. It is almost completely irrelevant when nations and aggrieved parties complain.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
3/11 newspurge: this too shall pass
biowars/envirohealth:
uk patients' medical records go online without consent*
not more quakes, just more people in quake zones*
deadly quakes are coincidence, scientists say*
is the US conducting biowarfare against its own citizens?*
who: over 85m african kids get polio vaccination*
video: bill gates promotes eugenics through vaccines*
drugwar:
60yrs of drug trafficking at the venice municipal airport*
texas jury jails man 35yrs for marijuana possession*
econocrash:
unemployed uk soothed by fake shop fronts*
postal service urged to weigh 3-days-a-week mail*
US government to experiment with new definition of poverty*
canadian dollar likely to trump US greenback*
virginia hands out 6996 traffic tickets in 1 weekend in effort to raise revenue*
uk patients' medical records go online without consent*
not more quakes, just more people in quake zones* deadly quakes are coincidence, scientists say*
is the US conducting biowarfare against its own citizens?*
who: over 85m african kids get polio vaccination*
video: bill gates promotes eugenics through vaccines*
drugwar:
60yrs of drug trafficking at the venice municipal airport*
texas jury jails man 35yrs for marijuana possession*
econocrash:
unemployed uk soothed by fake shop fronts*
postal service urged to weigh 3-days-a-week mail* US government to experiment with new definition of poverty*
canadian dollar likely to trump US greenback*
virginia hands out 6996 traffic tickets in 1 weekend in effort to raise revenue*
Sunday, March 16, 2008
5 years later: rachel corrie's case for justice
from counterpunch: As their plane touches down in Tel Aviv this week, Cindy and Craig Corrie will mark five years since their daughter's death. On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death beneath an armored Israeli bulldozer. The Corries are a short distance from Gaza, where Rachel was killed, and where in the past few weeks, an Israeli military incursion killed over 100 Palestinians, including many women and children. This week, the Corries come to Israel to attend the first Arabic-language performance of the acclaimed one-woman play, My Name is Rachel Corrie.flashback: theater festival under fire for 'rachel corrie'
Thursday, June 07, 2007
theater festival under fire for 'rachel corrie'
for a few years, i was a sound designer at the contemporary american theater festival. i also worked for ed herendeen, off & on, for almost ten years. i can say first hand that ed has always staged controversial plays; from the death of danny casolaro in 'the octopus' to sleeping with terrorists in 'homeland security,' his provocative choices make theater more urgent & important. that's one of the main reasons why people want to work with him... but now, with catf putting on 'my name is rachel corrie,' herendeen & co may have bitten off more than shepherdstown can chew...
should anti-israel play be staged?
from jewish theatre: A controversial one-woman play about an American killed in Gaza will be staged this summer during the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and some longtime ticket holders are objecting.
My Name is Rachel Corrie will be performed 17 times during the month long July festival.
Bethesda's Richard Belle has been attending the festival for the past 10 years. This season, he plans to skip it in protest.
"The play was written by partisans who are strongly anti-Israel," said Belle, 55, who works in marketing for a nonprofit engineering corporation. "I don't see this play doing anything except stirring up hatred against Israel, and the fact that it's so beloved by the hard anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian movement is not coincidental," he continued.
"I'm particularly pained because I love CATF. I'm horrified in what they're doing," Belle said.
Such reactions don't surprise CATF director Ed Herendeen. "I think that's what is great about freedom of speech and the power of art is that you go and choose what you want to see," he said. "What I would like is people to keep an open mind."
One of CATF's board members resigned in protest, revoking a $100,000 pledge, Herendeen said. He would not reveal the name of that person, and other board members either could not confirm the identity or did not respond to inquiries.
He also said that he has been "receiving some real nice letters of positive support from patrons," and that as of press time ticket sales are roughly on pace with last year.
catf offering stirs debate
from shepherdstown observer: With the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF)’s decision to stage “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” during its 2007 season in July, the shouting match that has led to the play’s cancellation in New York, Toronto, and Miami and upstaged a recent production in Seattle could follow the play to Shepherdstown...
“It’s a very human story. I connected with this play because of Rachel’s idealistic voice,” says CATF producing director Ed Herendeen. “It reconnected me with my youth and my idealism.”
According to most press accounts, many of the play’s admirers share Herendeen’s perspective. The setting could have been Darfur, Liberia, or any of the world’s most dangerous and contested places. For Herendeen, Corrie’s voice rings with youthful optimism that people can make a difference in the world...
The decision to stage the play has created a stir within CATF. Early on, a few trustees hinted they might resign over the play’s content. Others were concerned by the negative financial implications of staging the play. The trustees met for a Saturday session to discuss the decision to produce the play. To Herendeen, the discussion was an energizing example of how theater can inspire dialogue. Ultimately, though, one trustee, H. Alan Young, did resign over the trustees’ decision to back the production.
should anti-israel play be staged?
from jewish theatre: A controversial one-woman play about an American killed in Gaza will be staged this summer during the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and some longtime ticket holders are objecting.My Name is Rachel Corrie will be performed 17 times during the month long July festival.
Bethesda's Richard Belle has been attending the festival for the past 10 years. This season, he plans to skip it in protest.
"The play was written by partisans who are strongly anti-Israel," said Belle, 55, who works in marketing for a nonprofit engineering corporation. "I don't see this play doing anything except stirring up hatred against Israel, and the fact that it's so beloved by the hard anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian movement is not coincidental," he continued.
"I'm particularly pained because I love CATF. I'm horrified in what they're doing," Belle said.
Such reactions don't surprise CATF director Ed Herendeen. "I think that's what is great about freedom of speech and the power of art is that you go and choose what you want to see," he said. "What I would like is people to keep an open mind."
One of CATF's board members resigned in protest, revoking a $100,000 pledge, Herendeen said. He would not reveal the name of that person, and other board members either could not confirm the identity or did not respond to inquiries.
He also said that he has been "receiving some real nice letters of positive support from patrons," and that as of press time ticket sales are roughly on pace with last year.
catf offering stirs debate
from shepherdstown observer: With the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF)’s decision to stage “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” during its 2007 season in July, the shouting match that has led to the play’s cancellation in New York, Toronto, and Miami and upstaged a recent production in Seattle could follow the play to Shepherdstown...“It’s a very human story. I connected with this play because of Rachel’s idealistic voice,” says CATF producing director Ed Herendeen. “It reconnected me with my youth and my idealism.”
According to most press accounts, many of the play’s admirers share Herendeen’s perspective. The setting could have been Darfur, Liberia, or any of the world’s most dangerous and contested places. For Herendeen, Corrie’s voice rings with youthful optimism that people can make a difference in the world...
The decision to stage the play has created a stir within CATF. Early on, a few trustees hinted they might resign over the play’s content. Others were concerned by the negative financial implications of staging the play. The trustees met for a Saturday session to discuss the decision to produce the play. To Herendeen, the discussion was an energizing example of how theater can inspire dialogue. Ultimately, though, one trustee, H. Alan Young, did resign over the trustees’ decision to back the production.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
rachel corrie: an american conscience
from znet: The late Rachel Corrie (1979-2003) was articulate, straightforward and resolute. Her castigation of Israel's military occupation of the Palestinian people and the Israeli Government's disregard for the safety of Israelis and Palestinians rang with clarity. Through peace activism she ascertained the facts on the ground. She called it as she saw it.
The documentary, "Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience," chronicles her humanitarian work with the International Solidarity Movement in Rafah, Gaza Strip, just prior to her murder in March 2003. While Corrie stood in front of a Palestinian home to prevent its demolition, an Israeli soldier in a Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer crushed her.
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