------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 27, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
SEATTLE & OLYMPIA, WASH.: ACTIVIST’S DEATH GALVANIZES ANTI-WAR FORCES
By Jane Cutter Seattle
The activist communities of Olympia and Seattle, Wash., especially those who knew and worked with Rachel Corrie, have been deeply affected by her murder. The day she was killed, March 16, a vigil was held in Olympia. In Seattle, hundreds gathered at the University of Washington campus following a previously scheduled showing of the film "Jenin Jenin."
The impact of Corrie's death has also served to bring into greater focus the interconnection of the struggle against the U.S. war on Iraq and the Palestine solidarity struggle. At an anti-war vigil in Seattle on March 16, in which vast numbers of activists formed a 3.5-mile human chain around Green Lake, protesters called out her name.
Some in the local peace movement had sought to ban or censor talk about Palestine from the anti-war discourse. Rachel's murder by an Israeli soldier, driving a U.S.-made military bulldozer, paid for with U.S. tax dollars, has brought home to many the reality of life for the Palestinian people.
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