On June 26, Columbia, South Carolina, will be one of a few select cities participating in America Speaks  www.americaspeaks.org/
500 Columbia residents will be attending.  Columbia will be fielding the largest number of participants of any city in the nation!

America Speaks: Our Budget, Our Economy will engage the American public in an unprecedented national discussion about our federal budget. Thousands of Americans reflecting the demographic, geographic and political diversity of our nation will come together on June 26, 2010, for a National Town Meeting connected via satellite video, webcast, and interactive technologies to weigh-in on the difficult choices involved with putting our federal budget on a sustainable path.
 
Student volunteers are urgently needed for the event. If you would like to experience how the “town hall” can work as a political process, this is a wonderful opportunity! To sign up, click here to send Dr. Ned Laff a message at nslaff@columbiasc.edu.