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'This wonderful collection of material... offers an opportunity to trace the developing sensibilities of a talented writer... It's inspiring stuff'
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Rachel Corrie was a young American activist killed on March 16th 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family s home in the Gaza strip. She was twenty-three years old. Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie s striking gifts as a poet and writer, and tells Corrie s story in her own words, from her earliest reflections as a precociously creative and assured young child, to her final eloquent emails from Gaza. Corrie wrote movingly of her relationships with family and friends and of the defining love affair of her life. She wrote with insight and intensity about her creative life, her desire to write and draw. Above all, the book describes her growing political conscience her desire to break out of a blinkered American perspective and make a difference in the world. Throughout, Corrie s writing displays an extraordinary level of eloquence and self-awareness, humour and compassion. It is hard not to imagine what extraordinary books she would have produced had she lived.
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Rachel Corrie was ten years old in 1990 when she made the following speech (viewable on YouTube); "I'm here for other children. I'm here because I care. I'm here because children everywhere are suffering, and because 40,000 people die each day from hunger. I'm here because these people are mostly children. We have got to understand that the poor are all around us, and we are ignoring them. We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable. We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We have got to understand that they are us, we are them. My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000. My dream is to give the poor a chance. My dream is to save the 40,000 people who die each day. My dream can and will come true, if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there. If we ignore hunger, that light will go out. If we all help and work together, it will grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow".
Over 300 children were killed by Israel during its attack on Gaza that began over Christmas 2008 and continued into the new year of 2009. Many, many more were injured, maimed and made homeless and school-less; they are now subjected to an illegal siege by Israel.
On March 16th 2003, thirteen years after Rachel Corrie made her speech, she was killed in Gaza by Israel's army. Rachel Corrie was a human rights defender. She was American. She was 23 years old. Now, seven years later, an Irish ship bearing her name, shines that light she saw, as a ten year old girl, for all the world to see, on one of our times greatest injustices. Rachel Corrie has returned, once again, to peacefuly confront her killers with their own violence and injustice. Some lights don't go out. Some lights grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow. Some things can't be killed.My Name is Rachel Corrie
Over 300 children were killed by Israel during its attack on Gaza that began over Christmas 2008 and continued into the new year of 2009. Many, many more were injured, maimed and made homeless and school-less; they are now subjected to an illegal siege by Israel.
On March 16th 2003, thirteen years after Rachel Corrie made her speech, she was killed in Gaza by Israel's army. Rachel Corrie was a human rights defender. She was American. She was 23 years old. Now, seven years later, an Irish ship bearing her name, shines that light she saw, as a ten year old girl, for all the world to see, on one of our times greatest injustices. Rachel Corrie has returned, once again, to peacefuly confront her killers with their own violence and injustice. Some lights don't go out. Some lights grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow. Some things can't be killed.My Name is Rachel Corrie
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This is an excellent book. It gives Rachel's background and what made her the person that she was and have the passion that she had for Gaza. It is a very valuable book if you wish to learn something about a young woman who cared enough for the situation to take the steps that she did.
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