According to the Chicago Sun-Times,
Parents of a young woman [Rachel Corrie] who was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a Caterpillar bulldozer spoke Sunday at a rally to build support for two protests against Caterpillar this month in Chicago and Peoria. . . .
The rally was organized by the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led group of which Corrie was a member. . . .
Activists will protest the use of Caterpillar bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes, at the company’s annual stockholders meeting April 14 in Chicago. An “International Day of Action Against Caterpillar” demonstration will be staged April 23 at corporate headquarters in Peoria.
Caterpillar spokesman Benjamin Cordani said, “We don’t have the legal right nor the means of policing the use of our equipment” in the Middle East.
Of course they don’t — but that doesn’t seem to matter in the weird moral universe that some of these protesters inhabit. (Thanks to reader Joseph Yosick for the pointer.)
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