The First 6 Expos

Expo 2004

• 68 local organizations
• 34 workshops
• 10 local speakers
• Music and poetry
• Interfaith Prayer Service
• Closing community ritual

Expo 2005

• 56 local organizations
• 23 workshops
• Keynote - Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! Television - author of The Exception to the Rulers
• Closing ceremony with drumming and song

Expo 2007

• 82 organizations
• 13 workshops
• Keynote - Cindy Sheehan – Gold Star mother - her son died in the Iraq war - she was the face of the resistance to the Iraq war

Expo 2008

• Theme - "Working Toward a World Without Poverty"
• 16 workshops
• 60 local organizations
• Keynote - Sam Daley-Harris - author of Reclaiming Our Democracy - president and founder of RESULTS - The Power to end Poverty - dedicated to mass educational strategies to generate the will to end world hunger - expanding microcredit.
• Peace & Justice Awards - to three retiring state senators Ernie Chambers, Don Preister and Lowen Kruse have served Nebraskans for a combined total of 62 years.

Expo 2010

• Our first weeknight Expo
• 36 local organizations
• Keynote - Noam Chomsky - outspoken critic of the US government and US foreign policy - author of over 100 books on topics such as war, politics, mass media and linguistics – ideologically alligned with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism

Expo 2013

• A weeknight Expo
• 27 local organizations
• Keynote - Medea Benjamin - cofounder of CODEPINK, a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement - author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
• article from The Reader - link