Rachel’s Appearance on Mural Restored

I’m hap­py to report that Rachel Cor­rie’s image on the mur­al on the front of the Lati­no News­pa­per offices at 23^rd and Mis­sion has been restored. Some van­dal had kicked a hole in the image of her face, and the hole remained unre­paired for sev­er­al months. Last night I was in the neigh­bor­hood and saw that not only has the hole been repaired, but Rachel’s image has been repaint­ed in its orig­i­nal place next to the image of Ché Gue­vara. It looks like the artist found a bet­ter pho­to of Rachel; the paint­ing is much bet­ter than the original.

Next week if it’s still intact when I go by, I’ll try to get a pic­ture. I was sad that I did­n’t get a pho­to of the orig­i­nal before it was defaced.

In relat­ed news, Israeli set­tlers are now feel­ing the pain of the IDF’s use of mil­i­tary bull­doz­ers to solve prob­lems: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3413929.stm I sup­pose there’s a cer­tain log­ic to knock­ing down build­ings to clear an area rather than clear­ing an area in prepa­ra­tion for knock­ing down the build­ings, but I remain con­vinced that using bull­doz­er demo­li­tion as a mil­i­tary tac­tic is ill-advised.