 The 1994 conference, held at the Mt.Washington Hotel, featured a return of many of the "old timers" who had attended the 1944 conference or other founding conferences for the postwar economic system.In 2000 during the presidential election, Ritchie was one of 52 farm and rural activists who formed "Family Farmers' National Alliance for Nader/LaDuke" to support the presidential campaign of Ralph Nader.