Traficant to speak at AFP event

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant will make a speech on national and world affairs in Washington to American Free Press supporters on Feb. 13.

Registration for the Traficant conference begins at noon that day at the Capitol Skyline Hotel, located on Capitol Hill. Call the hotel at: (202) 488-7500 for room details. Formal events unfold at 2 p.m. with introductions, followed by Traficant’s speech, with question-and-answer sessions.

Traficant served seven years in federal prison for bribery and conspiracy.

AFP calls itself a “Maverick, independent grass-roots media voice. ... [that has] declared all-out war on the elite-controlled Big Media Monopoly in America and around the globe,” according to the AFP web site. AFP believes that, “In the United States today, it is a select handful of super-rich families and tightly-knit financial interests ... who own the Big Media and who control the government through their ownership of that media,” its web site says.