OSC GMO Campaign / MAM Organizing Meeting Mon. April 27, 7 PM PJC

[Emerald]

Draft agenda - please send corrections and agenda items to Emerald by Sunday night.

Occupy Sonoma County GMO Campaign Meeting

This will be the last GMO Campaign meeting before the March Against Monsanto. 
Please come and help us put on a big event!

Monday, April 27, 7-9 PM

Peace & Justice Center

467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa

Off of Santa Rosa Avenue near Juilliard Park

If you wish to join the meeting by telephone please arrange that with us in advance or call Peter at the meeting time.
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Allocate Meeting Tasks – (assign facilitator, notetaker, timekeeper, etc.)

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If you have not facilitated recently please consider facilitating with our support

Check-ins & Introductions

2 minutes each brief personal check-in

Or if there is a newcomer:

3 minutes each of introduction and 5 minutes introduction by newcomer

Welcome Newcomers & OSC Overview (if needed)

Review OSC weekly meeting schedule and campaigns

Announce upcoming plans and OSC events (Media teach-in 7/6 & 7/20; Summer retreat end of July, Bilingual teach-in September, Body Oppression teach-in November)

Review of hand signals and Objections Method consensus process if needed

 

Reports Back

What have you been working on?

Other tasks agreed to at last meeting

GMO News

Aquis Cafe speaker (Jim)

 

Agenda Review

Review agenda

Decide order and what to include

Set times for each topic

 

​PROPOSED AGENDA ITEMS

Quick Items & Announcements

Bilingual Teach-In

Spanish GMO page on website
  

Discussion & Decision-Making Items​

 

MAM

Endorsements​

Flyer postin

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Events to flyer

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May Day, Butter & Egg, etc.

Logistics

Set up

March details

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banner
     march route
     walkie talkies & march coordination

Fundraising

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plant sale

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raised beds

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donation collections from the crowd

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donations from endorsers

​Rally plans

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speakers, entertainment, emcee

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equipment
   

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abling

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literature, Hero samples

Vendors?

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Amy's, Straus, Endorsers, Food Heroes

Vegan food truck

Media publicity

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press release, psa

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radio interviews and contacting key media contacts

End time

​Notes from last GMO Campaign Meeting:

OSC GMO Campaign Meeting 3.23.15

7-9 PM

Peace & Justice Center

 

​6 people attended including one newcomer

Welcome Newcomer
Review hand signals and Objections method of consensus
Review meeting schedule and upcoming events planned

OSC Meetings Mondays:
1st 7:15-9:15 Media & Publicity-Mostly technical
2nd 7:30-9:30 Monthly Meeting - most important decision making meeting.
3rd Community Wellness (these meetings have been closed for internal processing)
4th GMO - Topic specific

​Briefly discussed the teach-ins that we have had and are planning.

Reports Back

​1): Posting to OSC site. Unable to connect for labels for plant sale

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: Now has about 200 seedlings. Has several mystery plants. Will be working on the raised beds

​3): Won't have bird houses ready for teach-in

Created banner ad for WACCO. Arranged updated administration for web hosting.

​4): Arranged for WACCO to post banner ad for teach-in but tech probs interfered (fixed). Has done a few mailings for teach-in and plans to do another at the end of this week. Has a press release ready but wants opinions before releasing tonight. PSA to go out tonight. Has house plants for teach-ins. Hasn't yet heard back from emcee for the bilingual teach-in.

Saw latest GMO film, "Open Sesame." Film spectacular.

​5): Interviewed teach-in presenter on radio today. Interviewed several women from the North Coast Coalition for Palestine. Met with a group to demonstrate at Albany site the day before the MAM.

Paid the website fees. 

​We will reimburse him after the plant sale on Monday

Will have seed bombs for next Monday.

AGENDA

Quick Items & Announcements

Monday Teach-in
Set-up on Monday is 5-6 PM (chairs, tables, and plants)
Supper together with

​presenter 6-6:45.

Planning for

​presenter's vegetarian dinner:

​1): Lentil Soup

​2): Salad

​3): Pie

​4): Thai dish without Soy

​5): Stuffed Grape leaves

​6): Organic bread

8 of us expected at dinner

​We will circulate an internal announcement about the dinner plans and menu so that OSC folks can join and know what to bring based on the menu.

Some discussion of teach-in format, tech stuff and timing.
Suggested passing out a short questionnaire.

​Emcee will post an introduction on a Titanpad so that we can all have input.

 

Discussion & Decision-Making Items

MAM May 23, 2015

Briefly filled in newcomer

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about past demonstrations and teach-ins.

What time and where?
Court House Square Start and end. Start at 2pm
Agreed

Setup at Noon
Agreed

​Someone will contact two possible food vendors

Food vendors will have to arrange their own permits with the city
Agreed

​Would like to invite the local food heroes to set up their vending tables

Agreed

Musicians suggested
HubBub band has agreed to lead the march and perform at the rally

Endorsements asked such as NBLC
There is a long brainstorm that went around by email.  This will be compiled into a mailing.

​Agreed to start a letter requesting endorsements.  Will send the letter out for polish and send by email.

Endorsement means request for a contingent in the march, invitation to table at the rally, help promote the event

​Will send us all the final draft of the endorsement letter for group input

Bilingual Teach-in

Software question to be settled soon after looking at the Beta version of the new Drupal software coming in October
Concern about the type of translation this software will provide.  Electronic translations tend to be terrible
It was decided at the last MM to move this teach-in to November to accommodate the translation issue with the Drupal update in October but September might be a better month due to the desire for a garden theme
To be discussed further at Monthly Meeting

Next meeting:
Monthly Meeting - April 13 7:30-9:30 PM

GMO Campaign - April 27 7-9 PM​