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OSC GMO Campaign Meeting - Agenda for 2/22/16
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Monday, February 22, 2016 7:00-7:15 pm - gather or phone-in 7:15 pm - meeting start 9:00 pm - meeting end
Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County
467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 map
If you are unable to attend in person, you can attend by phone conference at 641-715-3580 PIN: 933092# If you plan to attend by phone, let us know prior to the meeting by emailor voicemail: 707-877-6650
Please plan to meet on time: some our our participants are not available past 9 PM!
Schedule
Allocate Meeting Tasks – (assign facilitator, notetaker, timekeeper,vibes watcher etc.)
if you are a newly-trained facilitator, please consider facilitating this meeting with our support.
Check-ins & Introductions
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
What you have been working on (review of 2/15 showing of 'Genetic Roulette')
Other tasks agreed to at last meeting
GMO News
PROPOSED AGENDA ITEMS
March Against Monsanto planning - Emerald (facilitate)
(event: Saturday, May 21 in Sebastopol) Continue MAM planning.
Discuss march route (Peter)
Spend some money to create 'spiffy' 2-sided 1/2-page fliers with an endorsement list on back) and 2-sided postcards.
Call Bonnie to get a price quote (Peter)
Request flyer graphics from Brent of MAM (Emerald)
Find out if OSC can print postcard-sized flyers and can print on glossy paper (Peter)
GMO Talking Points: Top 5 - Steve/Deer
M&P group brainstormed the top talking points to communicate in interviews we give. Need to pick the top 5 out of 14 points.
Taqueria Letter Campaign - Emerald
Discuss letter campaign focused on GMOs in our local taquerias. Cassandra created a draft (https://osc.titanpad.com/51)
GMO News Press Releases & Letter-to-the-Editor Tag Team - Emerald/Steve
Prepare DARK Act press release - Steve
Promotion of 'Consumed' Movie - Steve
The movie, co-sponsored by OSC, has the green light to be screened in Rohnert Park on 3/10 at 7:30 PM. Currently 41 tickets sold and 39 more seats are available.
(with theater permission) Prepare an introduction to the movie with 'Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families'?
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.
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