<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is a well-done video on GMO foods.<div>Is Occupy interested?<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Linda</div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div marginheight="5" topmargin="5" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 10pt; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear MoveOn member,</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Recently, I shared with you and other MoveOn members a video of a 'Monsanto Challenge' I organized in Northampton. The event was a fun way to take our message about the need for GMO labeling to the public in my state.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">With the GMO labeling movement growing coast to coast, I thought MoveOn members in California would be interested in having a similar Monsanto Challenge event near them—but first someone needs to take the lead and organize it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Will you host a Monsanto Challenge in Fort Bragg? </strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><a href="http://civic.moveon.org/event/create.html?action_id=323&id=72302-629781-VCgYc5x&t=1"><strong>Click here to host your own Monsanto Challenge event in Fort Bragg.</strong></a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Hosting a Challenge is a simple, great way to recruit new GMO labeling supporters and demonstrate how absurd it is that we could be eating potentially harmful foods without knowing it. Once you find a venue to hold the Challenge—farmers' markets are great—MoveOn will recruit people to attend and show you how make it fun and powerful.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">The Challenge isn't just educational, it's fun! Check out the full email and video below, then <a href="http://civic.moveon.org/event/create.html?action_id=323&id=72302-629781-VCgYc5x&t=2">click here to plan your Monsanto Challenge.</a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks for all you do.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">–Pat Fiero</p><hr><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear MoveOn member,</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><strong>Think you could taste the toxic ingredients in your food?</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We tested that question with dozens of people on the street in Northampton, Massachusetts last Friday. It was a fun but pointed demonstration of the silent danger of GMO products. We called it "The Monsanto Challenge."</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">It's ridiculous and potentially dangerous that Monsanto and other food companies can, in nearly every state, sell consumers GMO products without telling us. I think we have a right to know what's in our food so we can make our own decisions about what we eat. We organized this event to build support for a GMO labeling law in our state.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><a href="http://civic.moveon.org/mamonsantochallenge/?id=72302-629781-VCgYc5x&t=3"><strong>Click here to watch a video of the event and share it with your friends.</strong></a></p><center><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><a href="http://civic.moveon.org/mamonsantochallenge/?id=72302-629781-VCgYc5x&t=4"><img src="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=292163&id=72302-629781-VCgYc5x&t=5" title="The Monsanto Challenge" alt="The Monsanto Challenge" width="500" height="282"></a></p></center><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><strong>Enacting a GMO labeling law in Massachusetts is important for the national GMO labeling movement as well.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Connecticut and Maine passed laws earlier this summer, but lobbyists stuffed in "trigger mechanisms" that prevent them from going into effect until neighboring states pass their own GMO labeling laws.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">So if we pass a labeling law in Massachusetts, the laws in two other states are closer to being implemented. And as more and more states require GMO labeling, it will make less and less sense for Monsanto and huge food companies in only a handful of states—they'll just do it for the whole country.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">That's why I'm fighting so hard in Massachusetts. That's why I organized this event—which I'm hoping folks in other states will plan in their communities as well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Will you share this video with your friends?</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><a href="http://civic.moveon.org/mamonsantochallenge/?id=72302-629781-VCgYc5x&t=6"><strong>Yes, I'll share the video.</strong></a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks for all you do.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">–Pat Fiero</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; "><b>Want to support our work?</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 8 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. 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