Washington D. C.: Get Your Free Glyphosate Test on Wed, March with Moms Across America on July 4th!
Wed, July 2: Get your free glyphosate test!
What: Free testing for glyphosate (Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide)
Where: In the morning at the Environmental Protection Agency, One Potomac Yard, 2777 South Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202
At lunchtime at the Capitol, Russell Senate Office Building, 2 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002
When: Wednesday July 2, 2014, 9 a.m. at the EPA, Noon at the Capitol
Fri, July 4: March with Moms Across America!
What: Moms Across America contingent in the Palisades July 4th Parade
Where: Our Lady of Victory School-Whitehaven Pkwy and Foxhall Road, 4755 Whitehaven Pkwy NW, Washington, DC 20007
When: Friday, July 4, 2014, 10 a.m.
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To meet up on Wednesday or Friday, contact OCA political director Alexis Baden-Mayer via email at alexis@organicconsumers.org or via text at 202-744-0853.
Dear Supporter,
Zen Honeycutt and Moms Across America are back in D.C. to follow up on their historic meeting with the decision-makers at the Environmental Protection Agency who have the power to Recall Roundup.
The group is offering free glyphosate (the key ingredient in Roundup) testing on Wednesday, July 2, and leading a contingent of anti-GMO activists on July 4, in a Fourth of July parade.
July 2: Glyphosate Testing
Monsanto’s Roundup has been linked to the explosion of illnesses plaguing this generation, including infertility and birth defects, allergies and gastrointestinal problems, obesity and diet-related diseases, Alzheimers and Parkinsons, asthma, auto-immune problems, autism-spectrum disorder, liver disease and cancer.
Yet despite the fact that Roundup is the most widely used herbicide in the world, until recently, it’s been impossible to test you or your family for the presence of glyphosate—making it impossible to know if exposure to glyphosate might be behind illnesses you or your family are experiencing.
But that changed in April, when Moms Across America released results of a preliminary round of tests that found glyphosate in breast milk, urine and water.
On Wednesday, July 2, Moms Across America is brining free glyphosate testing to people in the D.C. metro area at the EPA and the Capitol.
Please join Organic Consumers Association and Moms Across America for this important action on Wednesday, July 2!
July 4: Parade
This land is your land. This land is my land,
From California, to the New York island.
We love our children and want them healthy!
This land we want GMO FREE!
Please sing and march with us on July 4 this year! Bring your kids, partners, spouses, friends and neighbors!
We will have banners, flyers, stickers, and buttons. They are for everyone to hand out during and after the parade. Please bring balloons, posters, decorated strollers, wagons, scooters, bikes, etc. We welcome your creativity!
One of the themes of our anti-GMOs/pesticides message is “Save the bees!” So come in bee costumes, if you have them.
The parade route ends at the Palisades community center, where the kids can cool off at a spray park.
We’ll be singing our GMO FREE song for the judges at the official viewing tent.
We are not protesting Monsanto or government policies. We are raising awareness.
If you attend the events this week, please support Moms Across America with a donation.
-Alexis, Melinda and the OCA team