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  • Caterpillar Protest Planned (over Rachel Corrie death)

    04/07/2004 3:16:08 PM PDT · by Andy from Beaverton · 78 replies · 1,710+ views
    week.com ^ | 04/05/04
      Caterpillar Protest PlannedPosted April 5, 2004 8:56am (Chicago-AP) -- The parents of a young Washington State woman who was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a Caterpillar bulldozer are urging people to join in protests against Caterpillar later this month in Chicago and Peoria. Craig and Cindy Corrie addressed a rally at a church in downtown Chicago yesterday to urge them to join the protests. The Corries' 23-year-old daughter, Rachel, was run down by the bulldozer in March of last year as she was trying to protest the razing of a Palestinian home in Gaza. Israeli officials later cleared the soldier...
  • The Rachel Corrie Memorial Massacre -

    10/15/2003 2:42:14 PM PDT · by UnklGene · 31 replies · 128+ views
    Opinion Journal ^ | October 15, 2003 | James Taranto
    The Rachel Corrie Memorial Massacre Remember Rachel Corrie? She was a mixed-up 23-year-old lass from Olympia, Wash., whose hobbies included playing in traffic and burning the American flag. Last March the former pastime cost her her life. She stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer, but was in the driver's blind spot and was accidentally crushed to death. Corrie's fatal game of chicken was the product of malice as well as idiocy. Her goal was to promote Palestinian terrorists' murderous campaign against Jews by obstructing Israeli efforts to destroy tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt...