Mike Ferner has served as an independent member of the Toledo City Council; organized for the public employees' union, AFSCME, worked for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), and for POCLAD, the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy.
Mike has traveled twice to Iraq just prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003, with a Voices in the Wilderness delegation, and again 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) is due out in August, 2006.