[Peace-discuss] Tonight 8-10 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Rachel's Words" and a debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict

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Show: Digital Citizen
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Time: 8-10 PM
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Tonight in New York a successful play was scheduled to open,
but it will not, owing to what the New York Times called
"concerns about the show's political content." Directed by the
noted actor Alan Rickman and edited by him and Guardian editor
Katherine Viner, "My Name is Rachel Corrie" played to full
houses and rave reviews in London.  The one-woman show is
drawn from the writings of a 23-year-old from Olympia,
Washington, who was run over and killed three years ago this
week by Israeli soldiers in an armored Caterpillar bulldozer
as she was trying non-violently to prevent the Israeli
occupation forces from destroying the house of Palestinian
family in Gaza.

Tonight on WEFT, the program "Digital Citizen" will present
the digital literary remains of an exemplary citizen -- the
emails that Rachel Corrie sent from the Occupied Territories
to family and friends in the US, particularly in the month
before her death.  Under the title "Rachel's Words," this
correspondence is being read around the country.

Tonight in New York, in place of the play canceled in an act
of what Rickman called "censorship," a reading will take place
at Riverside Church, hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. 
Participants will include Patti Smith, Vanessa Redgrave,
Howard Zinn and Hub Hubbard.  See <www.rachelswords.org/>. 
This afternoon 4-5 PM on WEFT, "Democracy Now" will present a
discussion of why "My Name is Rachel Corrie" is not opening
in New York.

Today in the New York Times, a letter from Nobel prize winner
Harold Pinter and twenty other "Jewish writers who supported
the Royal Court production of 'My Name Is Rachel Corrie,'"
says that "We are dismayed by the decision of the New York
Theater Workshop to cancel or postpone the play's production."
 It asks "...what is it about Rachel Corrie's writings, her
thoughts, her feelings, her confusions, her idealism, her
courage, her search for meaning in life -- what is it that New
York audiences must be protected from?  The various reasons
given by the workshop -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coma,
the election of Hamas, the circumstances of Rachel Corrie's
death, the 'symbolism' of her tale -- make no sense in the
context of this play and the crucial issues it raises about
Israeli military activity in the occupied territories."

In its second hour, tonight's "Digital Citizen" will present a
debate (with a remarkable degree of agreement) between Norman
Finkelstein, author of "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of
Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History," and Shlomo Ben-Ami,
former foreign minister of the government of Israel.  This
discussion is one of the clearest and and most accurate
accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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DR. NO (whose secret identity is J. B. Nicholson-Owens), the
founder and host of Digital Citizen, is away on hiatus, so
tonight's show will be presented by oxymoronic guest hosts,
the AWARE Radio Players -- Mort Brussel, Carl Estabrook and
Linda Evans.  As the Doctor says, "Thank you so much for
listening to the show.  Your attention makes doing the show
worthwhile."

	And remember, as the old digital saying put it,
	"There are 10 kinds of people in the world --
	those who know binary and those who don't."

    ****Digital Citizen tonight 8-10 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM****

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