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Join Craig and Cindy Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, for a reading and release of Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie this Tuesday, April 22nd at 7:30pm in Iowa City.
Craig and Cindy Corrie will read excerpts of
the book. Rachel Corrie is a young American activist who was killed on
March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian
family’s home in the Gaza Strip while the family was inside. She was
twenty-three years old.
Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie’s striking gifts as a poet
and writer, as she tells her story in her own words, from her
precocious reflections as a young girl to her final emails. Her writing
brings to life all that it means to come of age: a dawning sense of
self, a thirst for one’s own ideals, and an evolving connection to
others, near and far.
In 2005, CCR filed Corrie v. Caterpillar,
a federal lawsuit against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of
the parents of Rachel Corrie and on behalf of Palestinian families
whose family members were killed or injured when Caterpillar bulldozers
demolished their homes.
On September 17, 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the
dismissal of CCR’s case against Caterpillar, Inc. The Court found that
it did not have jurisdiction to decide the case because it would
intrude upon the foreign policy decisions of the political branches of
the United States government. Plaintiffs filed a petition for panel
rehearing on October 9, 2007, which is still pending.
“Rachel Corrie was a visionary driven by a sharp unrelenting moral
intensity. This book reveals the depth of her wisdom, her poetry, her
humanity, and he desire to transform suffering. It also reveals her
solitary struggle and bravery in the face of a sometimes cruel and
heartless world. Let Me Stand Alone is a testament to how deeply we
need the power and vision and energy of young women to transform the
world. It should be read by everyone.” --Eve Ensler