GMO Meeting Agenda for Mon, June 27, 2016

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OSC GMO Campaign Meeting Agenda for Mon, June 27, 2016

Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County

467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 map

7:00-7:15 pm - gather or phone-in* (641-715-3580, PIN: 933092#)

7:15 pm - meeting start

​9​
:00 pm - meeting end

PRE-AGENDA

Allocate Meeting Tasks – (facilitator, notetaker, timekeeper

​, scribe)​
)

Check-ins & Introductions

  • Brief personal check-in

    ​ ​
    (3 min
    ​ute​
    s each
    ​)​


Agenda Review

Reports Back – 

(up to 5 minutes​ each)

  • What have you been working on?

  • Other tasks agreed to at last meeting

  • GMO News


PROPOSED AGENDA ITEMS

  1. Feedback on 5/21/16 March Against Monsanto

    Example feedback topics

    ​ (2-5 minutes each topic)​

  • OSC media and publicity – was advertising/promotion effective and sufficient (including flyer design)?

  • Event Setup – on time? What snags occurred (e.g., no a/c power)?

  • Location – any problems arriving by public transportation? Parking problems?

  • March date and time – how did 2 - 5 pm time slot work out?

  • March route – good/great visibility by public? Good march flow (not too many delays at stop lights, etc.)? Effective coordination (march watchers, chanting synchronized)?

  • Bad weather backup plan – sufficient?

  • Stage and sound – good visibility of speakers and performers by audience? Adequate sound system (used single guitar/microphone amplifier)? Should seating have been provided?

  • Emcee / stage management – good transitions between speakers and performers?

  • Request(s) for donations – made at ideal/appropriate times?

  • Emcee, speakers & performers

    • absent speakers

    • on-topic: anti-GMO message

    • off-main topic: other issues (including TPP, political campaigning & political endorsements)

    • entertaining/inspiring/engaging/enthusiastic?

    • 5-minute speaking limit

  • Information booths – good booth traffic? Effective for providing anti-GMO info? Collected donations?

  • Plant sales

  • Food and drink availability (OSC provided tea and Lydia's bailed out of providing food at event)

  • Toilet availability

  • Media record of event (video and photography)

  • MAM coverage by media (newspapers, blogs)

  • Event clean up – enough people to help?

  • Feedback from attendees?

  • Feedback from City of Sebastopol?

  • Insurance coverage – any problems?

  • Monetary cost of event – in-budget, over-budget?

  • Post-event publicity – social media & followup thank-you emails

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.

​707-877-6650​

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