Today in Labor History March 16, 2003: Israeli Defense Forces murdered American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah by running over her with a bulldozer during the 2nd Intifada. She had been defending a Palestinian home that the IDF was trying to demolish as part of their collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Corie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She had travelled to Rafah as part of her college's (Evergreen State, in Olympia, WA) senior-year independent-study project to connect Olympia and Rafah with each other as sister cities. Under Trump, her college would likely be stripped of federal funding for allowing such a project, and Corie, herself, might have been deemed a terrorist.

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Rachel Corrie stands before Israeli IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers. She is wear a bright orange jacket and holding a bullhorn. By Joe Carr. joecarr@riseup.net is the email address found on the biographical info page: http://www.lovinrevolution.org/Bio.htm - archived here. See index by date.derivative work: Gobonobo (talk) - Rachel_Corrie_2003_March_16.jpg. Original source is http://www.lovinrevolution.org/rachel_pictures.htm - archived here. See index by date., Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10552803