American Human Rights Activists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 147. Chapters: Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Patti Smith, Phil Zimmermann, Mike Farrell, Pearl S. Buck, Mia Farrow, Rachel Corrie, Suu Kyi trespasser incidents, Van Jones, Richard A. Falk, Marc Garlasco, Jane Elliott, Thor Halvorssen Mendoza, Kevin Pina, Matthew McDaniel, David M. Smolin, Zack de la Rocha, W. Harry Davis, Samantha Power, Ted Chabasinski, Michael Posner, Jack Healey, Kenneth Roth, George Jackson, Ronan Farrow, Ken Rutherford, Katie Redford, Medea Benjamin, Gordon Hirabayashi, John Prendergast, Mary-Claire King, Ray McGovern, Alberto J. Mora, Scott Long, Andrew Koenig, Thomas Gumbleton, Uriah P. Levy, Sharon Sayles Belton, Maurice Davis, Laura Lederer, A. Latham Staples, Lily Mazahery, Corliss Lamont, John Feldmann, Riane Eisler, Jacob M. Appel, Gregory Stanton, Blase Bonpane, Jeff Halper, Robert L. Bernstein, Clara Luper, Gary Haugen, Randall Robinson, Camryn Manheim, Harry Wu, Sarah Leah Whitson, Brodie Foster Hubbard, Chip Pitts, Eliezer Silver, Patricia M. Derian, Alison Des Forges, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jody Williams, Roy Bourgeois, Pedro Julio Serrano, José S. Landaverde, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Allan Nairn, Greta Berlin, Scott Horton, Gregory C. Carr, Sen Katayama, James Otsuka, Linda Andre, Bruce William Nickerson, Gara LaMarche, John Kamm, Leonard Roy Frank, Richard Benkin, Aryeh Neier, Constance L. Rice, William F. Schulz, James A. Corbett, Cong Thanh Do, Stephen Bright, Leonard Weinglass, Yuri Kochiyama, Brian Coyle, Joseph Nevins, Larry Cox, Charles Kernaghan, Maureen Greenwood, Tim A. Peters, Gary Sick, Carmen Trotta, Abraham Halpern, Leonard Zeskind, Mary Pillsbury Lord, Aaron Rhodes, Deborah Fikes, Ann Fagan Ginger, Pamela Yates, Joe Stork, Ethan Zuckerman, Minky Worden, Goler T. Butcher, Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim, Scott leckie, Micah Naftalin, Felice D. Gaer, Aaron Cohen, Phillip Buck, Charmaine White Face, Eric Rosenthal, Ali Alyami, Rutledge Pearson, Bernard Lee, Louise Kantrow. Excerpt: Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 - March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was crushed to death in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) bulldozer when she was kneeling in front of a local Palestinian's home, thus acting as a human shield, attempting to prevent IDF forces from demolishing the home. The IDF stated that the death was due to the restricted angle of view of the IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer driver, while ISM eyewitnesses said "there was nothing to obscure the driver's view." A student at The Evergreen State College, she had taken a year off to travel to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. Corrie was born on April 10, 1979, and raised in Olympia, Washington, United States. She was the youngest of the three children of Craig Corrie, an insurance executive, and Cindy Corrie. Cindy describes their family as "average Americans - politically liberal, economically conservative, middle class". After graduating from Capital High School, Corrie went on to attend The Evergreen State College (TESC), also in Olympia, where she took a number of arts courses. She took one year off from her studies to work as a volunteer in the Washington State Conservation Corps; other volunteer work included making weekly visits to patients with mental disorders for three years. In her senior year, she proposed an independent-study program in which she would travel to Gaza, join protesters from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and...