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This Friday the Palestinian Film Festival showed its last in a series of films, Rachel: An American Conscience.

Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old nonviolent peace activist, was killed in Gaza when an Israeli soldier crushed her with a bulldozer on March 16, 2003. The soldier ran her over on purpose according to multiple witnesses present, although the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) contests this.

Rachel was trying to stop the demolition of a physician’s home in Gaza. Five young children watched in terror from the windows of the home that was about to be destroyed as the bulldozer crushed Rachel. Rachel’s parents, who are touring the country and the world to continue Rachel’s fight for justice, gave an introduction to Rachel’s life as a peace...

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