topic : Caterpillar
|
August 2007
July 9, 2007, Seattle -- Today the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard Corrie et al. v. Caterpillar, a case charging Caterpillar, Inc. with aiding and abetting war crimes and other serious human rights violations on the grounds that the company provided bulldozers to Israel knowing they would be used unlawfully to demolish homes and endanger civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (opt). The case was brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie and four Palestinian families whose family members were killed or injured when Caterpillar bulldozers demolished their homes. Corrie, a . . .
|
read more . . .
|
June 2006
by Annamarie Murano
Many of us know the personal tragedy of Rachel Corrie's death under the blade of a Caterpillar D-9 militarized bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian family home in Rafah, Gaza Strip. We also know the international tragedy of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Israeli military through the destruction of Palestinian homes and livelihoods, civilian infrastructure and the building of the racially discriminatory West Bank Barrier resulting in Israeli settlement expansion and confiscation of Palestinian land. We worked to educate our regional Caterpillar distributor, NC . . .
|
read more . . .
|
February 2006
by Annamarie Murano
Caterpillar Inc. is responsible for violations of human rights in the Occupied Territories and must be held accountable. Caterpillar knows this is happening and continues to violate international law. The Olympia CAT Campaign is calling on the company to investigate its role in human rights abuses and cease its support of the Israeli military through the supply of Caterpillar equipment, including the CAT D9 militarized bulldozer, which was used in the killing of Rachel Corrie.
|
read more . . .
|
November 2005
by Cindy and Craig Corrie
October 10, 2005 - When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16, 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organization, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells. Her emails home had had a powerful impact on our family, making us think about the situation in the Middle East in ways we had never done before. Without a direct connection to Israel and Palestine, we had not . . .
|
read more . . .
May 2005
by Serena Becker
On April 13, demonstrations were held in over 30 cities worldwide for the International Day of Action Against Caterpillar. These actions brought attention to Caterpillar's complicity in systematic human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories and demanding an end to their continued violations of international law.
|
read more . . .
May 2005
Over 100 people gathered outside NC Machinery in Tukwilla , Washington to pressure the Harnish Group to use their influence to stop Caterpillar from contributing to human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories. (Photo by Robert Torre)
|
read more . . .
April 2005
by Rochelle Gause
Since 1967 the Caterpillar Corporation has been providing equipment to the Israeli military for use in its illegal occupation of the Palestinian people. Since the second intifada began in 2000, the Israeli military has created a human rights crisis in the Occupied Territories. Three specific incidents have recently highlighted the role Caterpillar is playing in these human rights abuses: the 2002 destruction of the Jenin refugee Camp, the 2003 killing of Rachel Corrie, as she nonviolently defended a Palestinian home, and last May's "Operation Rainbow" in Rafah where . . .
|
read more . . .
March 2005
by Rochelle Gause
"We stand in the path of the bulldozers and are physically pushed with the shovels backwards. The bulldozers then proceeded on their course, demolishing one side of the houses with the protesters inside. The drivers sometimes drop a sound grenade out of the cab of the bulldozer, and continue to demolish the houses, at which point the activists are able to escape, amid gunfire from the tanks. We can only imagine what it is like for Palestinians living here, most of them once-or-twice refugees already, for whom this is not a nightmare, but a continuous reality from which . . .
|
read more . . .
March 2005
This photo was taken in Gaza by Tom Hurndall shortly before he was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. He was shot as he attempted to escort children away from the sniper's bullets. After nine months in a coma, Tom died on January 13, 2004.
|
read more . . .
March 2005
A Palestinian couple on the rubble of their home, destroyed by the Israeli government.
|
read more . . .
March 2005
A Palestinian woman confronts an Israel home demolition bulldozer.
|
read more . . .
|
|
