MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 16, 2003: Israeli Defense Forces murdered American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah by running over her with a bulldozer during the 2nd Intifada. She had been defending a Palestinian home that the IDF was trying to demolish as part of their collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Corie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She had travelled to Rafah as part of her college's (Evergreen State, in Olympia, WA) senior-year independent-study project to connect Olympia and Rafah with each other as sister cities. Under Trump, her college would likely be stripped of federal funding for allowing such a project, and Corie, herself, might have been deemed a terrorist. </p><p>According to a January 2025 report, by the United Nations Office of Coordinated Human Affairs, 92% of all housing units in Gaza are now either destroyed, or severely damaged. 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents are internally displaced. And 345,000 face catastrophic food insecurity.</p><p><a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-14-january-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ochaopt.org/content/reported-i</span><span class="invisible">mpact-snapshot-gaza-strip-14-january-2025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rachelcorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rachelcorie</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/idf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idf</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/warcrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warcrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/collectivepunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collectivepunishment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freepalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freepalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intifada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intifada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a></p>