Marya Sea Kaminski as Rachel in My Name is Rachel Corrie on the Leo K. Stage at Seattle Repertory Theatre March 15 through April 22, 2007. Photo copyright Chris Bennion 2007. Writing on The New Republic Online in November, 2006, James Kirchick snarkily commented, "Of all the subjects for a 90-minute, one-woman show, Rachel Corrie ought to have been at the bottom of the list." Rachel Corrie was an Olympia native and Evergreen State......

Seattlest went to school in Olympia (for awhile, anyway, with apologies to Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today. Mistake or murder? Martyred activist or hippie fool? Was she killed by Israel, or sacrificed for the cause by the International Solidarity......

The Corrie family is making world headlines again after narrowly escaping a Palestinian attack near the Rafah border crossing. Of course you remember that their daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in that area by Israeli bulldozers while she was trying to prevent them from leveling Palestinian dwellings. The Corrie parents were visiting the Nasrallahs in Rafah (apparenlty they often do, as the two families tour and speak together) where there has been a rash of......