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Senator Ernie Chambers to Speak at 2006 Annual Peace Conference

NFP

Nebraska political legend and “Defender of the Downtrodden,” Sen. Ernie Chambers, will be the featured speaker at the 2006 Annual Peace Conference in Grand Island, Saturday October 14.

The longest-serving legislator in Nebraska history, Sen. Chambers has been a politically fearless and unceasingly eloquent champion of social, racial and economic justice for 35 years. Time and again, his unchallenged intellect, parliamentary savvy and gift for the poetic — coupled with an astonishing physical stamina — have enabled him to single-handedly thwart the passage of unjust legislation by tying the Unicameral up in knots.

The man’s influence though has been felt well beyond the Statehouse. As the feature article on him in the January/February 2006 Mother Jones magazine so amply demonstrated, his politically principled leadership — from the State of Nebraska’s unprecedented divestment from the apartheid government in South Africa to his vocal and unapologetic opposition to the war on Afghanistan after 9/11 — has earned him a national reputation. The cause of justice and peace has ever been his work, whether in his African-American neighborhood in North Omaha, or half a world away in the midst of an illegal and neo-colonial occupation of Iraq.

With the advent of term limits, however, Sen. Chambers’ storied career in the Unicameral will likely come to an end in 2008. First elected in 1970 — the same year Nebraskans for Peace was founded — Sen. Chambers has been our constant legislative ally and voice, and we shudder to imagine politics in Nebraska without him. All of which makes his appearance as our 2006 Annual Peace Conference keynote speaker just that much more poignant and notable. This coming October 14, in a talk which he has entitled, characteristically enough, “Candid Conversation on the Topics of the Day,” we shall once again have the benefit of his wide-ranging and always provocative political insights.

This year’s conference marks the tenth anniversary of the University of Nebraska-Omaha School of Social Work’s and Nebraskans for Peace’s joint sponsorship of the Annual Peace Conference. Trinity United Methodist Church at 5th and Elm Streets in Grand Island has again graciously offered the host the event, which will run from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Theresa Baron-McKeagney, Director of the UNO School of Social Work, will provide the welcome at the event and open the day’s activities.

In addition to Sen. Chambers’ morning address, there will be a special panel discussion on “The Crisis in the Mideast,” the usual selection of Peace & Justice workshops on topics ranging from civil and human rights issues to antiwar organizing to state property taxes. And of course, the presentation of this year’s “Peacemakers of the Year” awards.” Sen. Chambers, who was honored as our Peacemaker of the Year in 2002, will be on hand when we recognize long-time NFP volunteer Virginia Walsh and the Central City, Nebraska Friends Meeting.

The conference cost is $25 per person (which includes continental breakfast and lunch) if you register by October 11 — registration at the door is $30. (A student and low-income rate of $10 per person is also available.) Certified Masters Social Workers and Licensed Mental Health Practitioners can earn four-and-one-half CEUs by attending the entire conference.

For more information, contact the NFP State Office by phone at 402-475-4620 or by email at nfpstate@nebraskansforpeace.org.

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