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Mar 15, 2008, 1:48:50 AM3/15/08
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 is the fifth anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. We mark the day with grief as people in Gaza struggle to survive. The international siege has left them without basic needs such as fuel, electricity, and potable water, and the recent Israeli military invasion killed 120 people - over 70 civilians and children.  (Read more here.)

For people planning events, The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has put together an excellent vigil guide. Also, Rachel's emails from Gaza can be found, in many languages, on our website. We hope that the anniversary will be used as a day to commemorate Rachel Corrie and and keep Gaza in the news. We encourage people to continue reading Rachel's emails in public gatherings large or small, on March 16th and beyond.

In the last 5 years, Rachel's Corrie's voice has broken through barriers to reach a widening audience. Craig and Cindy Corrie are in Haifa. On March 16 they will attend the opening performance of the play My Name is Rachel Corrie in Arabic at the Al-Midan Theatre. Friends from the Royal Court Theatre, which originally premiered the play, are joining them. After Haifa, the play will travel to Nazareth, Jaffa and Ramallah. The play, whose cancellation in New York launched our own initiative, is now being produced in theaters all over the U.S. and internationally. 

This week W.W. Norton released Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie - a collection of Rachel's prolific writing, from her poems and lists at an early age to her last email from Gaza. In their introduction to the book, the Corrie family says, "The world knows of Rachel from how she died. But we know her from how she lived. She was, first and foremost, a writer and an artist." Rachel's book is their gift to us.

Let Me Stand Alone can be purchased online here or from bookstores. If your local independent book store has not already stocked the book, you can encourage them to do so. Cindy and Craig Corrie will be on tour with the book in April. Below is a list of events planned for the national book tour, followed by a list of the many places around the world that My Name is Rachel Corrie has now performed. 

Your efforts and support have helped make this possible. Thank you.

In Solidarity, 
Rachel's Words


LET ME STAND ALONE
BOOK TOUR:

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Sat, April 5 @ 8PM  KIng Middle School, Berkeley  510.848.6767

SEATTLE, WA
Monday April 7 @ 7:30 PM  University Bookstore at Town Hall   206.634.3400

OLYMPIA, WA
Tuesday April 8 @ 7:00PM  ORCA BOOKS          

Wednesday April 9 @ 7:00PM  Evergreen State College  “Students Educating Students about the Middle East” 
        
PORTLAND, OR
Thursday April 10 @ 7:30PM  Powell's at Hawthorne Bookstore   800.878.7323 

WASHINGTON, DC
Monday April 14 @ 7PM  Delaplaine Visual Arts and Education Center   301.698.0656                              

Tuesday April 15 @ 6PM  Busboys & Poets   202.387.POET

NEW YORK, NY
Friday April 18 @ 6:30PM Cooper Union, Wollman Auditorium  212.353.4165

IOWA CITY, IA
April 21 or 22 - Event Pending - Iowa Memorial Union Prairie Lights             

MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Thursday April 24 @ 7PM The Loft Library Center Micawber’s Book Store   612.215.2575 



MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
THEATER PRODUCTIONS TO DATE*
*Please send us any missing info! 
A special note of thanks to all of you who staged your own readings and interpretations of Rachel's Words.
We will post any upcoming Rachel's Words events on out website - write us at  in...@rachelswords.org.

Royal Court Theatre, London, England
Premiered April 4, 2005 through April 30, 2005
Ran again October 11-29, 2005

Playhouse Theatre, London, England
March 29 - May 7, 2006

Minetta Lane Theatre, New York, New York
October 15 - December 17, 2006

Orpheum Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin
March 7, 8, 14, 15, 2007

Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, Washington
March 15, 2007 - May 6, 2007
(With a weekend of performances at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wa)

July 6 - July 29, 2007

The Kitchen & Roundhouse Theatre, Silver Spring, Maryland
July 21, 2007

September 7 - October 7, 2007

Countdown to Zero, Denver, Colorado
Denver:  September 28 - November 17, 2007
Lincoln, Nebraska: January 25, 2008
Omaha, Nebraska: January 26, 2008
Des Moines, IA: January 27, 2008 (2 shows)
Albuquerque, New Mexico:  February 16 & 17, 2008

Teatro La Plaza, Lima, Peru
Ran until 31st October 2007; plans to tour until summer '08

Van Duzer Theatre, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
October 18-27, 2007

Fournos Theatre, Athens, Greece
Production opened on 12th October 2007

Production opened 11th October 2007

Organic Theater Company, Atlanta, Georgia
October 4 - November 4, 2007

Production opened on 9th November 2007

Sage Theatre, Calgary, Canada
November 15-24, 2007

Production opened on 8th December 2007

Teesri Duniya Theatre, Montreal, Canada
December 2-22, 2007

Neworld Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
January 23 - February 9, 2008

Jan 31- Feb 2, 2008

Theatre Yes, Edmonton, Alabama
March 28 - April 12, 2008

Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Production opened 14th May 2008

Theatre Panik, Toronto, Canada
May 29 - June 22, 2008

Radio broadcast by Deutschlandradio, Germany
August 4, 2008

New Repertory Theatre, Watertown, Massachusetts
March 8-30, 2008

Subversive Theatre, Buffalo, New York
March 7-29, 2008

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