OSC GMO Campaign Meeting - Agenda for 11/24/14

Mon, November 24, 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)
   • Other tasks agreed to at last meeting (except those listed below)
   • Update on status of EC for 2nd & 3rd Monday meetings (Emerald)
   • GMO News - monthly report (Cassandra)
   • Update on Shopper's Guide in Peace Press (Emerald)
   • Evaluate GMO OMG Teach-in
      

6. Proposed Agenda Items
    
   1. OSC Birthday Party on Monday, December 1
      • Choose a location and time (Peter: researched pizza joints w/quiet meeting areas)

   2. December Break - no OSC meetings in December
      • Anything critical need to be done before break (e.g., prep for January teach-in)?

   3. January Teach-in - Social Change Movement History
      • Flyer publicity

   4. Shopper's Guide on Website
      • Place prominently on home page with special title font

   5. MAM Brainstorm for May
      • March, rally, pizza party?

   6. Bilingual GMO Teach-in
      • Determine/approve date and location
      • Identify bilingual emcee and co-sponsor(s) from bilingual community
      • Identify any other groups to involve
      • Approve proposed Spanish language film to screen: 'Biodiversity Without GMO Crops' (35 mins)
      • Translate main pages of website into Spanish
      • Prepare Spanish GMO literature
   7. Discuss other GMO teach-in ideas
   8. Discuss future plans for the GMO Campaign

Click here for Notes from our last (October) 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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