STORYTELLERS FOR JUSTICE: My Name Is Rachel Corrie
FRIDAY, 24 APRIL 2026 | DOORS AT 19:00, PERFORMANCE FROM 19:30
This is A Benefit FOR UNIVERSAL LIMBS
Join local theatre artists for a night of community, solidarity, music, and a staged reading of My Name is Rachel Corrie by Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner. The play is based on the daries of the American nonviolence activist crushed by an Israeli Military Bulldozer destroying homes in Gaza during the second intefada. All proceeds from this event will go to Universal Limbs, a charity providing prosthetics to amputees from Gaza.
Here’s the Wikipedia summary of the events central to the play:
►[Rachel Corrie] joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) organization in order to protest the policies of the Israeli army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Corrie went to Gaza as part of her college’s senior-year independent-study proposal to connect Olympia [Washington] and Rafah with each other as sister cities. While in Rafah on March 16, 2003, she joined other ISM activists in efforts to nonviolently prevent Israel’s demolition of Palestinian property, where she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that crushed her. Corrie’s death sparked controversy and led to international media coverage.
►Physicians present and fellow ISM activists stated that Corrie had been wearing a high-visibility vest and was deliberately driven over, while the Israeli army said that it was an accident because the bulldozer operator did not see her. Following the incident, an Israeli military investigation concluded that Corrie’s death was the result of an accident and that the bulldozer operator had limited visibility. The ruling attracted criticism from organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), B’Tselem, and Yesh Din. HRW stated that the ruling represented a pattern of impunity for Israeli forces. In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro stated that the Israeli investigation was unsatisfactory, lacking thoroughness, credibility and transparency, and that therefore the U.S. government is unsatisfied with the investigation’s closure.◀︎
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