April 2007

Dear City Councilmen and Women,

It has come to my attention that the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project is attempting to effect an official sister-city relationship with the cities of Olympia, Washington and Rafah, Gaza. By now you are no doubt aware of the many reasons they wish to pursue this, including to pay tribute to Rachel Corrie whose untimely death in Gaza on March 16th, 2003 should have been met with outrage across the United States. Instead it was met with silence or, in some cases, the vicious attempt to distort what happened to her and why. Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a D9 . . .