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

[Carl 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
plays 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 [New York Theatre
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****