Mike Ferner
Fresh off the boat from a 2-month stay in Iraq, Mike Ferner joined the Wheels of Justice Tour in early April ‘04. He also spent February 2003 in Baghdad and Basra with the Iraq Peace Team among ordinary Iraqi civilians as a peace witness and to an impending invasion. Mike Ferner served two terms as an independent member of the Toledo City Council, 1989-93 and ran for mayor as an independent candidate in 1993.
A veteran of the United States Navy, Mike Ferner served in the Navy Hospital Corps 1969-73; afterwards. He became a union organizer for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and communications director for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) AFL-CIO; he co-founded Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy, 1975. Mike Ferner is a member of Veterans for Peace, the Labor Party, and the ACLU.