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These are improvisations: neither a manifesto nor a treatise because life is too complicated for either. Yet, I'm improvising as an Arab--Palestinian-- woman with a progressive point of view always under construction. I use these improvisations to think out loud, so never take any post as my last word on a subject but think of it as the beginning of a conversation.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Rachel Corrie's Fifth Grade Speech


Eight years ago, an Israeli bulldozer ran over and killed Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist who was trying to stop demolitions of Palestinian homes. RIP Rachel. The world is less kind without you, but your memory reminds us of the good in it. 

Below is a speech Rachel gave in fifth grade. It gives me chills to hear her.