Listen Thurs. 9PM EST: Mike Ferner-- Writer and Peace Activist Joins Grant Lawrence and Judy Lopez "DreamCatcher Radio"

Mike Ferner is a writer from Ohio. He served two terms on Toledo City Council, organized for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and worked as Communications Director for the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy. He traveled to Iraq twice, with a Voices in the Wilderness delegation just prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003, returning in 2004 for two months as a freelance writer. His book about those trips, Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq, (Praeger) was released in October 2006, just days before Mike was released from two months house arrest for painting “Troops Out Now!” on a highway overpass. His several arrests for “disturbing the war” include disrupting a session of Congress. He served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman during Vietnam, taking care of hundreds of wounded soldiers, was discharged as a conscientious objector, wrote the “Veterans For Peace Case for Impeachment and Prosecution,” and is on the national board of VFP.