March 22, 2006 - In the light of the cancellation by the Manhattan Theater Club's production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, several thousand New Yorkers turned out tonight at Riverside Church to hear writers, artists, playwrights and activists speak her writings. The play would tell the story - in her own words and emails - of the courageous 23-year old American woman who travelled to Gaza to protect innocent Palestinians and who stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer in an attempt to prevent the driver from destroying a Palestinian home. The bulldozer drove over her and then reversed and crushed her a second time. "My back is broken," she said before she died.

Declaring that the Sharon government could destroy her body but could never kill her spirit, people have stood up to those who would cave in to the new McCarthyism that attempts to stifle opposition and protest to the unjust policies of the U.S. and Israeli occupations.