OSC GMO Campaign Meeting - Agenda for 3/23/15

(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 (Media Teach-in 7/6 & 7/20?; Summer retreat)
• 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 have you been working on (internal calendar)
• Other tasks agreed to at last meeting (except those listed below)
• Getting Past Capitalisam Teach-in & Fundraiser - March 30
  • Publicity
  • Items to sell: plants, raised beds, birdhouses
  • Room and equipment setup (5:00-6:00 pm) Chairs, tables, floor pads, audio-video equipment, literature.
  • Pre-event dinner (6:00-6:45 pm)
  • Schedule (e.g., 7:15 announcements & intro, 7:20 interview, 8:20 Q&A, 8:55 pass the hat, thank you & next event announcement...)
  • Status of event introduction by Peter
• New media spokesperson (Cassandra)
• Aquis Cafe speaker (Jim)
• GMO News
   

1.  March Against Monsanto - May 23

• Planning ideas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1mqCXFdt9_tZjF4ZTlCS0RzY3M/view
• Location / permits (SR Courthouse $75)
• Time (2 PM - )
• Publicity
• Sponsors/endorsements
• Setup
• Plant sale/Fundraising
• Refreshments (Food Heroes)
• Speakers/entertainment
• Sound System
• Cleanup 

2. Bilingual GMO Teach-in - Nov xx

• Website translation
• Date/Time
• Location
• Co-sponsor(s) from bilingual community
• Bilingual emcee
• Bilingual urban gardening/urban farming resource
• Film ('Biodiversity Without GMO Crops' (35 mins)

3. Discuss Other Teach-in Ideas
    

4. Discuss Future Plans for the GMO Campaign

Click here for Notes from our last (November) Meeting

Next GMO Campaign Meeting: Monday, April 27 at 7PM

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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