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The future Rachel Corrie

Whether in life and or in death, she still stands in the way of bulldozers. The slim little 64-page book, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, the play that was composed from her journals and emails, won't be available in print in the US until April 15.¹ The English production of the play continues to be sold out in London, but it's not clear when (or if) it will appear in theaters in the US, the country of her birth. The first attempt to produce the play in New York was postponed for unsettling reasons. Philip Weiss has a take on the story in Rachel Corrie: Too Hot for New York in today's AlterNet.

1.  "On Sunday, March 16, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old senior at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the Rafah Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. Corrie was run over and run over again, when the army bulldozer backed up over her as she tried to prevent soldiers from demolishing a Palestinian home in the camp." See Seattle Weekly, March 19, 2003. You can read some of Rachel's emails in a Guardian article published three years ago, on the weekend of her death in Palestine. There are a few more of her emails available in a Guardian supplemental and also a reprint of her last correspondence. A booklet of her letters is available from her memorial website.