GMO Campaign Meeting Notes
6.23.2014
Check-ins
No Newcomers
4 people present
Reports:
:
2 boxes of 6-packs, 3” and 4” pots have been donated to us for the plant sales
No resolution of Sonic refusal issue, yet
Printing GMO informational leaflets
:
Passes on GMO on-line petitions to OSC list server
:
Has been having trouble putting political ideologies glossary on web site
Cleaning up web site
Training a backup admin
Updating web site
New PDF of Shoppers’ Guide is posted on the web site
:
Free school teach-ins
OSC has put on 4 teach-ins in six months (Feb., April, May, and June)
More to come before the end of the year
A bi-lingual GMO teach-in is being planned
See agenda
We will do a teach-in on “Social Change Movement History” on January
26
check for
UUC, SR Social Hall use
Two oppression teach-ins: one on Fat Oppression and one on Racism in Sonoma
County
Possibility of getting GMO OMG film
See agenda
Political Ideologies Panel
Being planned
together by the Free School for early next year
Looking for people to
be on the panel to represent political ideologies
Let us know if you
have suggestions for the panel or if you would like to be on it
Two internal teach-ins:
June 30th - How To Write A Press Release at the
PJC (Guests welcome)
August 18th – Anti-Oppression within OSC at the
EC (Internal OSC only)
Everyone in OSC is
requested to attend both internal teach-ins
March Against Monsanto event in May
Well attended with 40
people
Refer to Monthly Meeting
notes for a full report (see below)
Fundraising
Web hosting and
printing costs have been covered by earnings from the plant sales at the MAM
event and the Capitalism teach-in in April
4 plant sales every
year we will raise enough money to cover our group expenses
Shopper’s Guide
60 new Food Heroes have been added to the online Shoppers Guide and were
contacted
New product samples were sent to us for the MAM
Shopper’s Guide is being published in the next issue of the Peace Press
Additional ideas for teach-ins can be pitched to the Free School
AGENDA
Bilingual GMO
Teach-in
A GMO film
in English
with Spanish subtitles is available, but we are encouraged to spread
out a search for a GMO film in Spanish with English subtitles. We will find
someone in the community who is bilingual to emcee this event. We are aiming for October or November. We need to find translating
resources, as a group, to translate our flyers and information. Also find GMO literature in
Spanish. L
ooking into the
technology needed for a Spanish version of the web site. This is an ongoing project, and we are
not planning to translate every part of the web site. We would like to at least have the Home page of the web site
translated in time for our bilingual teach-in. We have to be careful and be realistic about how much we can
achieve and set the date for this teach-in when we are ready.
GMO OMG Film Showing
S
omeone
agreed
to follow up
No OSC meetings in
July
Summer break
Future plans for GMO
Campaign:
GMO themed pizza party
Use P&J Center,
Community Market in Santa Rosa or Sebastopol
Cob oven either at CM
in Santa Rosa or use
a
portable one
Fundraiser
Make and sell pizzas
followed by a GMO film
This idea is still
developing
Meeting ended at 9:15
Next GMO Campaign meeting:
August 25th
No OSC meetings in July
Evaluation of MAM event at Monthly Meeting:
Successful event!, had around 40 people, right
amount of printing, great location, re-think paying $100 dollars, great doing
something in Sebastopol, many new faces and many familiar faces: creating
community-people are getting to know each other, seeing each other again, good
food, seed bombs were a hit, plants were great.
Set
up too many tables and chairs-decide how many chairs to set up ahead of
time-specify to helpers this is what we agreed upon as a group.
Barn dance was fun. Not as many people interested in this as anticipated.
Difficult
to have it in one room too much happening in one room
. Community Wellness discussed last week that there was a comment made by a participant that was racist.
People
asking about the schedule-would have been good to have had it posted. Event
checklist for every event. No
promotion of OSC? No fundraising pitch? what is happening?
Was
not good to bring plants all down that day.
Too
much happening in same space.
Extend
set up time next time so we have more time.
Next
event maybe at Sebastopol Community Market.
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