College students will speak with Pelosi on new farm bill
Published Monday, April 16, 2007
Fergus Falls college students will talk with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi about the new farm bill during a video conference Wednesday. The Minnesota State Community Technical College students will ask a couple of questions, and is one of two other colleges participating in the event, planned from 5 to 7 p.m. in Legacy Hall.
“Speaker Pelosi will be broadcasting from her office in Washington D.C. on a big screen television,” student life director Heather Thormodson said. “There are two other colleges that will participate, most likely the University of North Carolina and a New York college.”
The college, in cooperation with Oxfam America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending world poverty, and Generation Engage, a nonpartisan youth-civic-engagement initiative, will host the live internet video-conference (Ichat).
“Lew Hille (of Oxfam America) helped formulate the questions,” she said. “They are about the conservation portion of the (farm) bill addressing caps on subsidies. If all the small family farms go away it’s going to be like all the small businesses in town when Wal-Mart came to town.”
The forum is open and free to everybody, though students alone will ask questions of Pelosi.
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