OSC GMO Campaign Meeting - Tonight, Sept 22, 7-9 PM

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Sep 22, 2014, 11:40:31 AM9/22/14
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Occupy Sonoma County GMO Campaign Meeting

Mon, September 22, 7-9 PM

Unitarian Universalist Congregation
547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa    map

(please contact us to request additions/changes to this agenda)

  1. Allocate Meeting Tasks - (assign facilitator, notetaker, timekeeper, etc.)
    If you are a newly trained facilitator please consider facilitating this meeting with our support.

  2. Check-Ins & Introductions

  3. Welcome Newcomers & OSC Overview
    • Review OSC weekly meeting schedule and campaigns
    • Announce upcoming plans and OSC events
    • Review of hand signals and Objections Method consensus process if needed

  4. Agenda Review
    • Review agenda
    • Decide order and what to include
    • Set times for each topic

  5. Reports Back
    • What you have been working on
    • Tasks agreed to at last meeting (updated Press List, etc.)
    • GMO News - monthly report
    • OSC preparations for tabling at the 9/28 Petaluma Progressives Festival

  6. Proposed Agenda Items
    • 'GMO OMG' Film Showing on Monday, November 3 at the UUC
      • Plan/review event agenda and assign responsibilities

    • Bilingual GMO Teach-in planning
      • choose Spanish language film to show ('The World According to Monsanto' or another GMO film)
      • translate portions of website into Spanish
      • print Spanish GMO literature
      • find a bilingual emcee
      • find a co-sponsoring group from the bilingual community
         
    • Approval to publish non-OSC events on our website Event Calendar:
      Note: events occur before the next Monthly Meeting
      • GMO Free Sonoma County Movie showing of 'The World According to Monsanto' on 9/27
      • Progressive Festival on 9/28

    • Discuss other GMO teach-in ideas

    • Discuss future plans for the GMO Campaign


Click here for Notes from our last (August) Meeting


It would take 5% of US consumers asking for GMO-free to be the tipping point.
Monsanto's stock is declining. A clear sign of this occurred when the president of Whole Foods confessed that when a product becomes verified as Non-GMO or GMO-free, sales leap by 15-30 percent. Of all the categories of health and wellness claims, such as “gluten-free,” etc, “GMO-free” products have the most rapid growth in sales.

We can win this! Together we can stop GMOs.

Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing county-wide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.
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