LEWISTON – The Maine People’s Alliance will host a town hall meeting on President Bush’s plan for Social Security at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at the B Street Community Center.

The meeting will focus on what the group calls the dangers of Bush’s plan and will offer an opportunity to discuss alternatives that the alliance says support Social Security and are congruous with Maine values.

Representatives from the Maine People’s Alliance, Social Security Works Coalition, the Maine AFL-CIO and the Maine Center for Economic Policy will be on hand to help answer questions and facilitate discussion.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has been invited to join the discussion. The attendees of the event will ask her to clarify her position on the privatization of Social Security and to take a stand on the issue.

Maine People’s Alliance volunteer Ryan Conrad says, “It’s simple. President Bush’s Social Security plan reduces guaranteed benefits, puts all benefits at the risk of the often unstable and fluctuating market, and puts the burden of more than a $2 trillion deficit on my generation and generations to come. We must discuss better alternatives.”