Dear Members of the Wesleyan Community,
I write to alert you to an important WESeminar event that will take place on Family/Homecoming Weekend. On Saturday evening, October 21st at 8:00 in the Cinema, Center for the Arts there will be a reading of the controversial play “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” The New York production of this play was abruptly postponed last March. The play is based on the journals, letters and e-mails of a college-aged peace activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. The half-hour play reading by a group of Wesleyan students is intended to stimulate a conversation that focuses on institutional censorship and self-censorship in a time of war.
Three distinguished panelists will launch our discussion: Rachel Meeropol ’97, staff attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights and vice president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Patrick Shaw (parent—’06), labor lawyer and associate secretary, American Association of University Professors, Department of Organizing and Services; and David Lindorff ’71, an award-winning freelance investigative reporter and writer, whose latest book is The Case for Impeachment. After brief remarks by the panelists, the conversation will be opened to the audience for a discussion on such issues as institutional censorship and self-silencing, art and activism, attempts to mute dissent and other relevant matters. We invite you to join others that evening in making your voice heard.
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