Rocking the Cradle for Rachel Corrie

The New York Theater Workshop has "indefinitely postponed" its scheduled run of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" based on the journals of the young woman crushed by an Israeli bulldozer set to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip.

A good article on the situation can be found at http://burning.typepad.com/...

There is little question that this is a case of political intimidation.

Fortunately some folks are making some noise.

Responding with something of a theatrical intifada, several readings of Corrie's journals have been staged around the country, including a major showing at the Riverside Church on March 22 with Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Suheir Hammad, Danny Hoch, Eve Ensler and the interminable Howard Zinn.

Whatever you think personally about Rachel Corrie (I think she is a hero) its important to recognize the attempts to prevent the staging of this play as part and parcel of the McCarthyist atmosphere that has been fostered by the Bush administartion and that needs to be challenged whenever it rears its ugly head.