OSC GMO Campaign Meeting - Agenda for 9/22/14

(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
   • Tasks agreed to at last meeting (updated Press List, etc.)
   • GMO News monthly report
   • OSC preparations for tabling at the 9/28 Petaluma Progressives Festival
      
6. Proposed Agenda Items
   • 'GMO OMG' Film Showing on Monday, November 3 at the UUC
     • Plan/review event agenda and assign responsibilities
        
   • 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
        
   • Approval to publish non-OSC events on our website Event Calendar:
     Note: events occur before the next Monthly Meeting
     • GMO Free Sonoma County Movie showing of 'The World According to Monsanto' on 9/27
     • Progressive Festival on 9/28
        
   • Discuss other GMO teach-in ideas
      
   • Discuss future plans for the GMO Campaign

Click here for Notes from our last (August) 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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