Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom”.

"Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now!"

Patti Smith read from Bread of Angels, "in which she remembered the U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003 while trying to protect Palestinian homes from destruction."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/25/patti_smith

#USPol #EUPol #PattiSmith #RachelCorrie #DemocracyNow .

Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event

Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The program included a reading by legendary singer Patti Smith from her new memoir Bread of Angels, in which she remembered the U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003 while trying to protect Palestinian homes from destruction. Corrie inspired Smith’s song “Peaceable Kingdom,” which she performed alongside Tony Shanahan on guitar and her daughter Jesse Smith on piano.

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From the beginnig of 1976 on the album "Horses" was moving our bodies and souls over and over again - it was the soundtrack of our life until in November "Radio Ethiopia" hit the streets - another banger of pure energy, rage, poetry and despair.
Patti Smith was the hero of the looming Punk-Era at least for me.

Today she is - as always - protesting against the latest US-war - "Radio Baghdad" was one of the strongest statements against the attack on Iraq 23 years ago - showing solidarity with Palestinians whose history is a long and winding road of pain and tears
commemorating Rachel Corrie who has given her life to the conviction that liberation is possible.

Celebrating 30 years of Democracy Now in the midst of a tsunami of unbelievable hubris - Donald "Very Strongly" Trump" - and the death cult of racist masculinistic supremacy - Pete "Wannabe Warrior" Hegseth - laying waste to everything dear, vulnerable and preservable - be it just because it has no chance in a world of murderous aggression.

#RachelCorrie #PattiSmith #Iraq #Iran #Palestine
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Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings "Peaceable Kingdom" at DN!'s 30th Anniversary Event

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Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom”.

"Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now!"

Patti Smith read from Bread of Angels, "in which she remembered the U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003 while trying to protect Palestinian homes from destruction."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/25/patti_smith

#USPol #EUPol #PattiSmith #RachelCorrie #DemocracyNow .

Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event

Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The program included a reading by legendary singer Patti Smith from her new memoir Bread of Angels, in which she remembered the U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003 while trying to protect Palestinian homes from destruction. Corrie inspired Smith’s song “Peaceable Kingdom,” which she performed alongside Tony Shanahan on guitar and her daughter Jesse Smith on piano.

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Under the pallets of the barbaric and Zionist Israeli bulldozers that came to destroy the homes of the Palestinian people, Rachel Corrie’s whose mere existence sacrificed her life at 16 Mars 2023 in Rafah
Isaril'in öldürdügü Filistin destekleyicisi aktivist #RachelCorrie yi anıyorum. #SayNoToCrime #satnotowar #FreePalestine #FreeGaza

RACHEL SCHIACCIATA DA UNA RUSPA ISRAELIANA
di Alfredo Facchini

16 marzo 2003. Rafah. Sono giornate terribili: l’esercito terrorista con la stella di David è impegnato a demolire centinaia di abitazioni lungo il confine tra Gaza e l’Egitto. È in corso l'Intifada di Al Aqsa.

Rachel Corrie, 23 anni, attivista statunitense, vola a Rafah per svolgere azioni di interposizione con il suo movimento: l'International Solidarity Movement. L’unica arma a disposizione è il loro corpo.

<<Sono a Rafah. Una città di 140mila persone, il 60% delle quali sono profughi. Al momento, l’esercito israeliano sta costruendo un muro alto dodici metri tra Rafah e il confine. 602 case sono state completamente rase al suolo dai bulldozer e il numero di quelle parzialmente distrutte è ancora più alto>>.

Il viaggio di Rachel finirà nel peggiore dei modi. Perderà la vita proprio nel tentativo di impedire che una ruspa militare demolisse l'abitazione di un medico palestinese. Viene travolta. Schiacciata.

Il tribunale di Haifa sentenziò che il conducente del bulldozer non vide Rachel e che la sua morte fu <<il risultato di un incidente che lei stessa aveva attirato su di sé>>. Una versione vile, smentita da decine di testimonianze.

<<Quel giorno di marzo, durante le operazioni di demolizione, Rachel Corrie e gli altri attivisti internazionali indossavano come di solito un giubbotto arancione fluorescente per essere riconoscibili e si rivolgevano ai soldati con megafoni, restando di fronte ai bulldozer diverse ore per impedire loro di distruggere le abitazioni>>.

Prima di finire sotto i cingoli di una ruspa dell’esercito israeliano Rachel scrive una lettera appassionata a sua madre. Ecco alcuni stralci.

<<Mamma, adesso l'esercito israeliano è arrivato al punto di distruggere con le ruspe la strada per Gaza, ed entrambi i checkpoint principali sono chiusi.
Significa che se un palestinese vuole andare ad iscriversi all'università per il prossimo quadrimestre non può farlo. La gente non può andare al lavoro, mentre chi è rimasto intrappolato dall'altra parte non può tornare a casa; e gli internazionali, che domani dovrebbero essere ad una riunione delle loro organizzazioni in Cisgiordania, non potranno arrivarci in tempo.

Probabilmente ce la faremmo a passare se facessimo davvero pesare il nostro privilegio di internazionali dalla pelle bianca, ma correremmo comunque un certo rischio di essere arrestati e deportati, anche se nessuno di noi ha fatto niente di illegale.

Sappi che un mucchio di palestinesi molto simpatici si sta prendendo cura di me. Mi sono presa una lieve influenza e per curarmi mi hanno dato dei beveroni al limone buonissimi. E poi la signora che ha le chiavi del pozzo dove ancora dormiamo mi chiede continuamente di te.

Non sa una parola d'inglese ma riesce a chiedermi molto spesso della mia mamma. Vuole essere sicura che ti chiami. Un abbraccio a te, a papà, a Sara, a Chris e a tutti. Rachel>>

#AlfredoFacchini

#RachelCorrie #16marzo2003 #Israele #israelegenocida

@politica @storia

March 16, 2003 - Rachel Corrie, an American college student in Gaza to protest Israeli military and security operations, was killed when run over by a bulldozer while trying to stop Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.

The 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was a member of International Solidarity Movement and was the first nonviolent western protester to die in the occupied territories.

#RachelCorrie

American activist #RachelCorrie was killed on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003 by the #IDF when an armoured bulldozer crushed her. She was trying to stop them destroying #Palestinian houses in #Gaza. This is a common form of Israeli #CollectivePunishment that is an explicit #WarCrime.

#RachelCorrie died 23 years ago today, on 16 March 2003. She was crushed by an #Israeli army bulldozer, when trying to prevent the demolition of a house in #Rafah, #Gaza, owned by a #Palestinian doctor and his family. Rachel was 23-years-old. See http://rachelcorriefoundation.org

#JimPage's song "I'd rather be dancing" is based on letters Rachel wrote home to her parents before Israelis murdered her: https://youtu.be/QxazIsQE1XE

Rachel placed her body between civilians and killers. That's what a war hero is.

@monsieurhercule Zionist state of Isreal hates everyone, the Christians, the Palestinians, the indigenous Jews, the Jews that are conscious objectors, American's who support a free Palestine (look up Rachel Corrie Pancakes a heartwarming IDF tradition), Americans (USS Liberty). They just seem to be a very hateful people and I can't see why they aren't asked nicely to give back all the aid we have given them since 1948 along with the nuclear secrets they stole.
#ussliberty #rachelcorrie