Mike Ferner
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Mike Ferner is a former Toledo, Ohio city council member, Vietnam veteran, anti-corporate activist, author, and peace activist. He is a collective member of POCLAD.
Ferner was arrested on June 30, 2006 at the Jesse Brown Veterans' Administration Medical Center. (Ferner was at the center because he was participating in Voices for Creative Nonviolence's 320-mile "Walk for Justice" from Springfield, Illinois to North Chicago, Illinois.) According to Ferner's recounting of the incident, the arresting officer stated that wearing a "Veterans for Peace" T-shirt while drinking coffee at the center comprised protesting, and Ferner was required to leave the premises. Ferner refused, and was subsequently arrested by Adkins. Ferner was charged with criminal tresspass and with weapons possession (a Swiss Army pocketknife). In 2006 he published a book accounting his trips to Iraq called Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq.
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- Ferner, Mike (July 5). Busted for wearing a peace T-shirt; has this country gone completely insane?. Retrieved on July 7, 2006.
