OSC GMO Campaign Meeting - Agenda for 10/27/14

Occupy Sonoma County GMO Campaign Meeting

Mon, October 27, 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 (e.g., press list)
   • Update on OSC's negotiations to continue to use the EC for 2nd & 3rd Monday meetings
     (contact made with the EC since Monthly Meeting)
   • Other tasks agreed to at last meeting
   • GMO News - monthly report (Cassandra)
      
6. Proposed Agenda Items
   • 'GMO OMG' Film Showing on Monday, November 3 at the UUC
     • Status of publicity campaign (e.g., press release, PSA, flyer posting, WaccoBB)
     • Final set up and logistics (agenda, time to arrive, movie screen)
   • Peace Press GMO Shopper's Guide Insert
     • Status of final updates to Shopper's Guide prior to Peace Press publication
     • Update/response from P&JC to create insert
     • Status of plan to design/produce insert
     • Other items to be done: help P&JC collate magazine, etc.
        
   • 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
        
   • GMO-themed Pizza Party:
     • Possible idea for May such as March Against Monsanto event
        
   • Discuss other GMO teach-in ideas
      
   • Discuss future plans for the GMO Campaign

Click here for Notes from our last (September) 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.

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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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