Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:55:59 -0500
From: tfusco2 at myfairpoint.net
To: peaceworks at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [peaceworks] Fwd: MAINE: Sign up for your FREE seat on the bus to D.C. to rally for states' rights to label GMOs!
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MAINE: Sign up for your FREE seat on the bus to D.C. to
rally for states' rights to label GMOs!
Date:
Sat, 6 Dec 2014 14:21:28 -0500 (EST)
From:
Organic Consumers Association
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charlotte at organicconsumers.org
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MAINE: Sign up for your FREE seat on the bus to
D.C. to rally for states' rights to label GMOs!
What: Rally to protest the Pompeo “DARK ACT”,
a bill to kill states’ rights to label GMOs
When: December 10, 2014, rally at 9 a.m. with
lunch to follow
Where: Rayburn House Office Building, 45
Independence Ave SW Washington, DC 20219
Dear Thomas,
In 2013, Maine became the second state in the
nation to pass a GMO labeling law. Connecticut and
Vermont have also passed GMO labeling laws. (The
jury is still out in Oregon, as votes continue to
be counted).
Monsanto and Big Food are running scared. So
they’ve written a bill, H.R. 4432, introduced by
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan), which would preempt
states from passing GMO labeling laws. That bill
will get its first hearing on Wednesday, December
10.
Join OCA and Mainers Against Monsanto and get
a FREE ride to Washington D.C. on December 10 to
stop the attack on GMO labeling! Click here to reserve your
FREE seat today! The bus has free
wi-fi, dvd video, plenty of cargo space,
comfortable-spacious seating, restrooms and
wheelchair lifts.
Schedule: Pick-ups are: 5
p.m. at Dysart's in Hermon, 6:30 p.m. from the
Civic Center in Augusta, and 7:45 p.m. from the
Best Western in South Portland.
We'll leave DC at the end of the day, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, December 10 and arrive back in South
Portland by 7 a.m. Thursday, December 11. And,
arrive back in Augusta by 8:15 a.m. and Bangor
around 9:30 a.m.
Help us spread the word and fill up the bus!
Forward this email and share this page with your
friends and family!
Maine’s GMO labeling law contains a
“trigger” clause which keeps it from being enacted
unless a similar law is passed in four other
contiguous states, including New Hampshire.
In 2015, we hope to pass legislation to remove
the trigger from Maine’s LD 718. But if Congress
passes Pompeo’s bill, the DARK (Deny Americans the
Right to Know) ACT, Maine’s GMO labeling law will
never be enacted, because neighboring states will
be preempted from passing their own GMO labeling
bills and Maine will be preempted from removing
the trigger clause.
We need to stop this attack on the constitutional
right of states to pass GMO labeling laws.
OCA, with help from Friends of the Earth, Credo,
Maine Sierra Club, Food Democracy Now! and other
groups, is organizing busloads of people to attend
the hearing, followed by a rally and an organic
lunch. But if we want to have an impact, if we
want to attract the attention of Congress and the
media, we need a minimum of 1000 people to be
there.
Please join us in
Washington D.C. on December 10 to tell Congress
you support states’ rights to pass GMO labeling
laws, and consumers’ right to know what’s in
their food.
Click here to reserve your
FREE seat on the bus to D.C. today! An
organizer will be in touch to confirm your
reservation.
- Charlotte and Katherine for the OCA team
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