Henry Norr - Palestine Speaker
Henry Norr is a 62-year-old semi-retired freelance writer and activist. He used to be a technology columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, until they fired him in March 2003, ostensibly for getting arrested in an anti-war demonstration the day Bush attacked Iraq, but also because of his involvement in Palestine solidarity work. Henry has spent a total of six months in Palestine since 2002: two weeks in Gaza under the auspices of the ISM in May, 2002; 5 weeks, mainly in Jayyous, with ISM in 2003; two months in the Holy Land Trust’s 2005 Palestine Summer Encounter program, mainly in Beit Sahour and Bethlehem, volunteering with the International Middle East Media Center imemc.org; and May-July 2006 with ISM and the Tel Rumeida Project www.telrumeidaproject.org in Hebron/Al-Khalil. His current political projects include membership in the core group of a Bay Area group Act Against Torture www.actagainsttorture.org and on the Local Station Board and Program Council of radio station KPFA. Henry is also active in support work for the immigrant workers fired by the Woodfin Suites hotel in Emeryville, CA www.woodfinwatch.org.