The Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club
Madison, WI
August 7 – 11, 2013
http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/
Power to the Peaceful
Speakers:
• Mike Wiggins and Drummers of the Bad River Tribe
• Madison Mayor Paul Soglin,
• David Newby, Founder of US Labor Against the War and former President of the WI AFL-CIO
• Carlos Arredondo, Costa Rican-American Peace Activist and an American Red Cross volunteer
• Ben Griffin, founder of VFP International Chapter in London
• Nick Turse, investigative journalist, historian and essayist
• John Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders
• John Kinsman, organic dairy farmer and forester
• James J. Yee, former Chaplain to Muslim detainees held at Guantánamo Bay
• Diane Wilson, Hunger Striker, Founding Member of CodePink
• S. Brian Willson, hunger striker, American Vietnam veteran, peace activist, and attorney-at-law
• Kathy Kelly, Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
• Matthew Rothschild, editor of “The Progressive Magazine”
• Scott Olsen, former Marine, two-time Iraq War veteran, and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Paul K. Chappell, Iraq War veteran, and Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• F Lincoln Grahlfs, member of Clarence Kailin Chapter 25, the hosting chapter
More about Speakers and their Bios: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/speakers.htm