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Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial

(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while...

Bulldozer Driver Who Killed Rachel Corrie to Testify Behind Screen

(Oct. 20) -- It was 7 1/2 years ago that an Israeli bulldozer ran over and killed Rachel Corrie, a Washington state resident, who was protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza. Subsequently, an Israeli military investigation (never published) cleared the driver, and no charges were filed in the incident. As...

Israel Seizes Another Gaza-Bound Aid Ship

(June 5) -- Israeli troops have seized another Gaza-bound aid ship, preventing it from delivering humanitarian supplies to the Palestinian strip and forcing it instead into a nearby port without violence, in stark contrast to a similar effort that turned bloody last week. On Monday, Israeli commandos stormed six other...

New Aid Boats Head to Gaza; UN Condemns Israel Killings

(June 1) -- Pro-Palestinian activists are promising to send two more boats to try to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli commandos killed at least nine people in a bloody raid the U.N. condemned after a contentious all-night session. Israel is deporting 50 of the activists it captured on Monday,...

Rachel Corrie News From the Web

06/01/12 New photo intern comes on board Source: Post Independent - Glenwood Springs CO Rachel Curry may be new to photojournalism, but as the Post Independent's new photo intern, she isn't worried about the transition from making art to reporting news.
05/22/12 State of debate Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco CA On May 24, a panel of three Jewish activists and authors from the Bay Area will discuss the historical figures and ancestors that inspire their work today.
05/06/12 Court to decide Rachel Corrie case in August Source: Jerusalem Post - Israel The Haifa District Court announced on Sunday that it will give a verdict in August in a civil suit filed by the family of Rachel Corrie, the American pro- Palestinian activist struck and killed by a bulldozer in Gaza. Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, died in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 16, 2003, when a bulldozer struck her during a protest by pro-Palestinian group the International Solidarity Movement.
04/18/12 Israel: The fear of a 'flytilla' Source: Aljazeera.com More than 1,000 pro-Palestinian activists were grounded at airports across Europe on Sunday after Israel blocked them from participating in a so-called 'flytilla'.
04/17/12 New works, returning favorites to be featured at 2012... Source: Frisco Enterprise - Frisco TX Tradition meets innovation in the line-up for the fourteenth annual Festival of Independent Theatres coming to the Bath House Cultural Center this July. The popular four week theatre festival (sponsored by Performing Arts Initiative in association with the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs) offers adventurous summer art-seekers the rare opportunity to catch celebrated established plays next to new works by Dallas' hottest up and coming artists.