March 16 Actions
WORLDWIDE READINGS OF RACHEL’S EMAILS THAT OCCURRED ON OR AROUND MARCH 16, 2006. WE HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT 72 READINGS IN 14 COUNTRIES; 45 OF THEM IN THE UNITED STATES AND 10 IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL. DESCRIPTIONS AND PHOTOS TO BE POSTED SOON
UNITED STATES
Annandale, Virginia
El-Iman Learning Center
5th through 9th grade students
March 16
Atlanta, GA
Public reading of Rachel’s emails
Little 5 Points Square
5:30-7:30pm
Austin, TX.
Reading of Rachels Words, TBA
Community for Palestinian Rights Austin, TX
Contact: Karen Hartwell, khartwell@austin.rr.com
Beavercreek, OH
Reading of Rachels Words
7 pm on March 16
Location: the home of Treva Jenkins
Contact: Gary Percesepe, Ph.D 937 215-6172
Bellington, WA
Sat Mar 18th at 6 pm,
Fairhaven Village Green-behind Village
Books 1210 11th Street.
There is a peace vigil
happening at 6 pm sponsored by the Whatcom Peace and
Justice Center and Rachels’s words will be read there
Contact: (360)734-0127,
Bennington, VT
Reading of “my name is rachel corrie” at
bennington college in vermont, by the advanced playwriting class
taught by caridad svich.
Bennington, VT
10:30 PM Living Room Reading of Rachel’s Words (Down Cafe venue)
Organized by Caridad Svich, visiting faculty-playwriting
with students: Fia Alvarez, Toby Levin, Maya McDonald, Allison Bektesh, Alex Taingo, Marina Boynton
Bloomington, IN
Reading of “Rachel’s Words”
3 pm on March 16
Location: Bell Trace, East 10th Street.
Scheduled by: The Bloomington (IN) branch of Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom
Contact: jtall@bloomington.in.us
Boise, Idaho
Friday, March 17 at 8 pm
living room reading/potluck
Boston, MA
First Parish
Church (Unitarian) 3 Church St, Cambridge, MA.
The Killing Zone, Film shown at 7:00PM. Vigil and readings to follow.
BostontoPalestine, an ISM Support group, and BootCAT, the Boston Caterpillar
Campaign
Visit ISM Boston
Brooklyn, NYC
WHO’S AFRAID OF RACHEL CORRIE?
Thursday March 16, 7:30 p.m. Admission free.
Lafayette Presbyterian Church
85 South Oxford St. in the BAM Cultural District.
7:30 to 8:30 PM.
An evening of Rachel’s Words: A theatrical event
Contact The Irondale Ensemble Project
info@irondale.org
Brooklyn
“Living Room Reading” of Rachel’s Words
Chatham, NY
The Chatham Peace Initiative is holding a Reading of Rachel Corrie’s Words
8:15 p.m. at Musica
Musica, 25 Hudson Ave, Chatham, NY
Contact: Susan Davies, daviesmason@taconic.net
Cotati, CA
Reading Rachel’s words at North Light Books and Café,
550 E. Cotati Ave. 2 to 4 p.m.
Contact: Lois Pearlman at 707-869-0266 or lois5@
Detroit, MI
We are doing our part in Detroit on both March 15 and 16th. We are taping everything and
will send you a copy so you can edit it into you event on the 22nd.
(Palestine Office – Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Michigan ISM, Detroit, MI
Coalition to Stop CAT sells to Israel – Michigan, Detroit, MI
Mary Thomas, Palestine Office, Detroit, MI)
Eugene, Ore
reading of Rachel’s Words
Forest Knolls, CA
Reading of Rachel’s Words
March 16
details to be announced
Granville, OH
Reading of Rachels Words
The First Baptist Church of Granville Granville, Ohio
Contact:Tom Burket, tburkett@laca.org
Website: www.firstbaptistgranville.org
Hudson, NY
Candlelight vigil and reading of Rachel’s Words
from 6 p.m. to 7 PM
Corner of 4th and Warren Streets in front of the First
Presbyterian Church
Contact:Christina at 518-822-9579
Irvine, CA
Reading of Rachels Words
multi-campus UC research group “International Performance and Culture
Contact: Janelle Reinelt ”
Lawrence, KS
Solidarity Center, 1109 Massachusetts
7 pm Dave Lippman’s multimedia presentation ‘Star of Goliath’ (music and slides from a trip to Palestine.)
8 pm People’s History Night,: Yaya Barakat’s film ‘Rachel, An American Conscience.’
Informal talk by Bea Dewing on Palestinian Solidarity activism, 7:30 pm.
Contact phone: 212-PAX-ILLA
Louisville, KY
A premiere of the film Refuseniks
Co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace
Contact: SonRevolution@aol.com
Minneapolis, MN
7pm on March 16
University of Minnesota Technology Building
1313 SE 5th St, suite 102B
Minneapolis
contact: furs0016@umn.edu
New York, NY
New York Theatre Workshop E. 4th St. Ny
Let’s bring Rachel’s words right to the source of the controversy on E. 4th
Street. Are there other actors or musicians interested in meeting at NYTW at 4
PM Thursday evening? Please contact me, and let me know if there are any groups
already planning this.
Contact: Gregory Nissen, 718-720-2924
New York, NY
Excerpts of Rachel Corrie’s Emails & Letters
East 4th Street Bar
Btw Bowery and 2nd Ave (across from NYTW) Wednesday March 15, 2006 @
5:30pm
New York, NY
March 16, 8:00-9:00 pm, at Times Up!,
49 East Houston, between Mott and Mulberry
Follow the Women, the Middle East bicycle ride for peace, opens its
slideshow presentation with a reading from Rachel Corrie’s email
free admission
Contact Colleen McGuire 917-385-4898, colleenmcguire@mindspring.com www.times-up.org/
Oakland, CA
An evening of Music, Poetry and Activism.
sponsored by NorCal ISM Support Group
Visit www.norcalism.org/events.htm
Olympia, WA (Rachel’s hometown)
“Reading Rachel’s Words”
noon-2pm on March 16, 2006
Evergreen State College — Seminar 2, E3105
contact: Lin Nelson
phone: 360-867-6056
email: nelsonl@evergreen.edu
Olympia, WA
Remembering Rachel’s Words
Koinonia Hall at First Christian Church
7th and Franklin Streets
7:00pm
We invite you to participate in this gathering in the following ways:
Remembrance:Share a memory of Rachel if you knew her as a friend, activist, coworker, student or otherwise.
Inspiration:Share ways that Rachel’s life and death affected you or led to changes in your own life. Or, share a piece of Rachel’s writings that moves you. Many of Rachel’s emails can be read here: www.rachelswords.org/rachels-emails
Action:Share ways in which you are working for a just peace for the people of Palestine and Israel, or for a fair and independent investigation into Rachel’s death.
At 8:30, there will be a candelight procession to Percival Landing, where there will be a short vigil. At 9:00, there will be the first Rachel Corrie Memorial Dance Party, at the Yes Yes studio at 320 4th Ave W.
Contact: alicezillah@yahoo.com
Peoria, IL
Public reading of Rachel’s email outside the Caterpillar headquarters
Begins at 12 noon
Contact: ISMinChicago@aol.com
Portland, OR
In the same church where Rachel’s parents came to speak, will be held a reading of Rachel’s beautiful words put on by local theatre artists (Francesca Sanders, playwright and Trish Egan, director) as well as many community leaders and organizers.
St. Francis Church
330 SE 11th Ave.
7:00 pm
Princeton, NJ
The Princeton Committee on Palestine and the Princeton Middle East
Society are proud to present: “Rachel’s Words”: An outdoor reading of the writings of Rachel Corrie.
Firestone Plaza, 1:00PM
Princeton University Campus
Princeton, NJ
Student and community volunteers will take turns readings from Rachel
Corrie’s published emails and other writings in honor of her memory and
to mark the third anniversary of her death. We will have an open
microphone period as well for audience members who would like to participate in
the readings or reflect on Rachel’s message.
For more information, contact: pcp@princeton.edu
Procidence, RI
March 16th
5:15 pm showing of “The Killing Zone” at the Cable Car Cinema on S. Main.
6:00 PM VIGIL FOR RACHEL CORRIE on the waterfront below South Main Street
Richmond, IN
Earlham College
details tba
contact: caplajo@earlham.edu
Seattle, WA
Planning street theater and indoor theater – details TBA
contact: Ed M:00.PMast edwardmast@aol.com
Seattle, WA
WHY ARE PEOPLE AFRAID OF RACHEL CORRIE’S WORDS?
Thursday, March 16, 2006
5:00-6:00 PM
Westlake Plaza
4th and Pine in downtown Seattle
contact: ed mast (206) 633-1086
edwardmast@aol.com
Seguin, TX
8 pm on March 16
at the Sonka House
617 N. Guadalupe St
Seguin TX 78155.
contact: (830)303-8694
Somerville, MA
Somerville Divestment Project will have a stand out with banners and leaflet
distribution on the evening of March 16th. These activities will be followed by
a vigil. At this time, it does not seem that we will be reading.
Location: Somerville, MA
Contact: Maria Leza
Website: Somerville Divestment Project
Sterling, VA
A Reading to Commemorate Peace Leaders – Rachel Corrie and Tom Fox
Thursday, March 16, 2006 from 6:30pm-7:30pm
46903 Sugarland Rd, Sterling, VA 20164
Contact: 703-433-1325 x0
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Women in Black will dedicate its regular monthly vigil ( on
the 2nd Tuesday of each month) on March 14, 2006, from 11:30 A.M. to
1:00 P.M., at its regular site (in front of the Bread Co., on Delmar, in the U-City Loop) to Rachel Corrie. We will have signs picturing Rachel Corrie and we will handout flyers. We will also be reading Rachel’s letters & e-mails.
St. Louis, MO
Public readings around the City of St. Louis on March 17
Contact Magan Wiles, missmagan3@yahoo.com
Swarthmore, PA
Reading of Rachel’s Words
Parrish Parlor, Swarthmore College, 500
College Ave., PA 19081.
organized by SATO – Students Against The Occupation
Contact:Shadi Rohana Ventura, CA
Ventura County, CA
A reading and discussion of Rachel’s Words.
Ventura College’s Fireside Lounge
6:00 PM
Contact: drdanj@adelphia.net
Washington, DC
living room reading of Rachel’s writings
Contact:janelleboal@aol.com
Washington, DC
10:30 AM to 12 Noon.
Reading Rachel’s words
Busboys & Poets Cafe at 14th & V St, NW, Washington, DC, from
BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
Living Room Reading
CAMBODIA
Phnom Penh
Living Room Reading
CANADA
Kingston, Ontario Canada
Queens University
Thursday March 16
3-4 p.m.
Mac Corry Hall Room B503
contact: K. Dubinsky,History Department
dubinsky@post.queensu.ca
Montreal
Location: Les Artistes du Toc Toc (6091 Ave du Parc)
Date: Thursday, March 16th
Time: 8pm
Optative Theatrical Laboratories (www.optative.net) invites you to come hear Rachel’s Words
Experimental performance artist and Ontario native Cassandra Witteman’s Rachel will be confronted with a cacophony of words about her words – words transposed directly from reality, in this case the frenzied people passionately debating this censorship case.
Cost: pay-what-you-can, with all proceeds being donated to The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice.
Contact: C McLean (514) 583-3378 or e-mail optativelabs@yahoo.ca
Toronto, Canada
7:30 pm
60 Lowther Ave. Toronto,
‘Honouring Peacemakers’ circle
Reading Rachel’s words, Tom Fox’s words,
Website: Quaker Peace & Social Action
CROATIA
Zagreb
details to be announced
EGYPT
Cairo
The Civil Monitor for Human Rights
Thursday, 16 March, 2006 at 6:00 pm:
36A, el Komy St. 8th Fl. – across the street from el Sania Secondary School, 200 meters north from Midan Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo
“The Third Anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s Death: International Activists in Palestine”
Valentine Edgar will read part of Rachel Corrie’s letters.
Participating in the conference:
Patrick O’Connor, Abd al Qadr Yassin, Dr. Dalal Barzi, Lebanese researcher and writer, Dr. Abd al Hamid al Ghazali, Farid Zahran
Open to the public.
The Civil Monitor for Human Rights
Contact Tel: 010-3043512
FRANCE
Montpellier
Rachel’s Words will be read as part of larger anti-war and anti-occupation events
2:00pm March 18
la Place de la Comédie
INDIA
Bombay
“living room” reading
Dehli
“living room” reading
IRAQ
Basra, details to be announced
Ireland
Limerick
March 16
University of Limerick Palestine Solidarity Society will show the documentary Death of An Idealist
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Bethlehem
Aida Refugee Camp
Abdel Fattah Abu Srour-director of Al Rowwad
contact: abosrour@yahoo.com
Bethlehem
Vigil for Commemoration and Solidarity
18:00 Friday 17 March 2006
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and the Palestinian
Center for Rapprochement between People (PCR) invite
you to a light a candle in a vigil to honor Martyrs
for Peace,
Tom Fox, CPT Iraq,
Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, the International Solidarity Movement
and to protest illegal Israeli invasion of the Prison in Jericho.
Please invite your friends and bring banners if you can.
Contact:CPT: (02) 222-8485
PCR: (02)277-2018 or cell: 054-453-1339
East Jerusalem
contact: sami@seedsofpeace.org
Gaza City
Living Room Reading
Jenin
Freedom Theatre
details to be announced
Taybeh
details to be announced
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Windows, Israeli-Palestinian Peace Center
contact: winpeace@netvision.net.il
Living Room Reading
contact:gal.harmat@gmail.com
Tulkarem
“Living Room reading”
West Jerusalem
Sponsored by Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
For further details about the Jerusalem reading on Thursday, please contact:
Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, Action Advocacy Officer
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Jerusalem
angela@icahd.org ; www.icahd.org
Tel: 02-672-8771 / 0547-366393
JORDAN
Amman
Friday, 17 March at 8 PM
Books@Cafe, Jebel Amman, off Rainbow Street, after 1st Circle
Contact: Marcy Newman, marcynewman@gmail.com or 079.990.9682
KOSOVO
Pristina, details to be announced
UNITED KINGDOM
London
Proposal that we read Rachel’s words outside the British Parliament.
I will also read Rachel’s words on the ‘mining for gold’ radio show on resonance radio station – 104.4fm in london
resonancefm.com on thursday evening 11-12pm gmt
Contact:tam dean burn
London
outside the entrance to LSE
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
from 12:30-1:30 onThursday, March 16
contact: Mike Cushman webmaster@jfjfp.org
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7426
Organized by LSE Staff against the War and Jews for Justice for Palestinians
London
AT 8PM, March 16,
Reading of Rachels Words
Foundry Bar, Great Eastern Street EC1 ( NEAREST TUBE: OLD STREET )
EVENTS ON OTHER DATES
Bethlehem
Friday, March 17, 18:00
Manger Square, Bethlehem
Vigil for Commemoration and Solidarity
a vigil to honor Martyrs for Peace, Tom Fox,CPT Iraq, Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM),and to protest illegal Israeli invasion of the Prison in Jericho.
Organizers: Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and the Palestinian Center for Rapprochment
between people (PCR)
Gainesville, FL
Public reading of Rachel’s emails
University of Florida, Turlington Plaza
March 22nd
Contact: nakba48@grove.ufl.edu
Website: www.nakba48.org
Chicago, ILL.
March 22
Reading of Rachels Emails
hosted by the Progressive SIGS and Caucuses Coalition of the Conference
on College Composition and Communication at CCCC’s annual convention. This will
accompany our third annual presentation of the Rachel Corrie Prize for Courage
in the Teaching of Writing.
Website: Progressive Teachers of College Writing
Marfa, Texas
Public reading of Rachels Emails on the evening of March 23,
at the AmVets Post
Contact:jwyp@earthlink.net
