The International Solidarity Movement Support Group in Northern California held its third annual Rachel Corrie Memorial on March 16th. The event was at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts (formerly the Alice Arts Center) in Oakland. Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. She was killed by an Israeli soldier while she was nonviolently resisting the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in Palestine.
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The Oakland event honored victims of violence everywhere and the unjustly imprisoned. It made connections between various global and domestic issues of social justice, particularly the issue of Palestine. Speakers at the event included Huwaida Arraf, Dolores Huerta, Maria Labossiere, Todd Chretien, Kiilu Nyasha, and Mary Jean Robertson. Performers such as Stephen Kent, Ras K’ Dee, Andrea Prichett, and Dave Welsh were also present. More info about the performers