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Autumn 2008 - PDF - Text
OCA Announces a New Grassroots Campaign: Organic Transitions - Beyond Economic Depression, Climate Change, & Peak Oil
Message from the Director
Resources on Organic Transition
Organic Transitions in Your Community: Taking the First Steps
Common Victories: OCA's Campaign Updates:
- Aerial Pesticide Spraying of Urban Areas Suspended
- Monsanto Forced to Dump Bovine Growth Hormone
- OCA Keeps the Pressure on USDA
- OCA Launches Kellogg's Boycott as GE Sugar Hits Supermarket Shelves
- OCA Plants Peace at the Republican National Convention
- OCA Study and California Attorney General Expose 'Organic' Fraud
Organic Consumers Lobbying & Political Advocacy:
The 2008 Elections & Beyond
Member Comments
Spring 2008 - PDF - Text
From Panic to Organic:
The Food, Climate, & Energy Crisis
Message from the Director
The Biofuels Hoax
Common Victories: OCA's Campaign Updates:
- Coming Clean: OCA Exposes Carcinogen In Fake “Organic” Products
- Stopping Monsanto’s GE Sugar
- Food Safety: Driving Monsanto’s rBGH Off the Market
- Farm Bill: How Congress is Spending 300 Billion of Our Dollars
- Sustainability Update: Biofuels Hoax
Member Comments
Lobbying Update: Organic Consumers in Washington DC
Affording Organic Food In Hard Times
Stay Informed with the OCA Website!
Autumn-Winter 2007 - PDF - Text
America: Organic & Green:
The Ultimate Challenge of Our Generation
A Message from the Director
OCA Mourns a Dear Friend
Climate Change: Don't Panic-Go Organic
Common Victories: OCA's Recent Campaigns and Success Stories
- Monitoring Organic Body Care
- Big Brother's Plans to Electronically Track All Farm Animals Falls Short
- Food Safety: Driving Monsanto's rBGH Off the Market
- 600 Non-Organic Ingredients Removed from "USDA Organic" Products
- Class Action Lawsuits Against Aurora's Factory Farmed "Organics"
- Country of Origin Labeling Law Passes (Again)
- Campaigning to Stop the USDA from Subsidizing Factory Farms, GE & Junk Food
- Pasteurized Almonds Mislabeled as "Raw" Almonds
Bringing Fair Trade Principles to Organic Production
Organic Consumer Lobbying in Washington, DC
Press the Politicians: Grassroots Netroots Alliance
A Quote from Frederick Douglass
Member Comments
Spring 2007 - PDF · Text
Big Food & Pharma: Keeping Us In the Dark
- Blocking Country of Origin Labels for Food
- Allowing Filth and Chemical Poisons In Industrial Food
- Forcing Irradiated, GE, and Cloned Foods on Consumers
- Forcing Unsafe Pharmaceutical Drugs on the Public
Message from the Director
Frankenfoods & Crops: Challenging the Biotech Bullies
NUTRI-CON: The Truth About Synthetic Vitamins and Supplement
Congressional Update
Common Victories: OCA's Recent Campaigns & Success Stories:
- Keeping Cloned Foods Out of Organics
- Driving Bovine Growth Hormone Milk Off the Market
- Defending the Rights of Small Organic Farmers and Grower Coops
- Cleaning Up the Organic Personal Care Product Industry
- Boycotting Factory Farmed “Organic” Dairy
Member
Comments
Planting Peace
Autumn 2006 - PDF · Text
Putting Organics on the Table
A Message from the Director: Organics in a Time of Crisis
Organic Consumers Survey for Elected Public Officials
OCA Campaign Progress Reports - July - November 2006:
Boycott of Bogus "Organic" Milk Spreads Across US
OCA Steps Up Campaign Against Gene-Altered "Frankenfoods"
Resistance Gaining Critical Mass Against "Gene Foods"
OCA's rBGH Boycott Takes Hold After a Decade
Industrial Hemp Ban on the Way Out
Organic Bytes: Good New Headlines / Subscription Alert
OCA Goes Local: Become a State News Scout or Editor
Can You Trust Organic Label Claims on Body Care Products?
Organic Food & Farming: Turning Up the Heat on Politicians
Tiny Toxins · Shoppers Guide to Nanotechnology
List of Cosmetic Companies Using Potentially Harmful Nanoparticles
"Every generation needs a new revolution"
Spring/Summer 2006 - PDF · Text
Organics and America’s Future: Will We Take the High Road?
A Message from the Director: Standing at the Crossroads
Organics and Fair Trade: Bringing It All Together
OCA Turns Up the Heat in Congress
OCA Campaign Progress Reports - January - June 2006:
- Stopping Chemical Industry Experiments on Children
- Eliminating Toxic Pesticide Spraying on Public Lands
- Banning a Cancer Causing Pesticide - Methyl Iodide
- Defending State Food Safety Labeling Laws
- Safeguarding Organic Standards
- Organizing Against Genetically Engineered Food
- Pressuring Starbucks on Fair Trade, rBGH
OCA Members Respond
Protecting Consumers from Deceptive Labels on Organic Body Care Products
Corporate Takeover? Organic Industry Structure Chart
Planting Peace
Autumn 2005 - PDF · Text
SOS: Organic Community and Standards Under Siege
A Message from the Director
Bio-Democracy or Biotech Tyranny?
A Declaration of Interdependence
Breaking The Chains: Global Call To Action
November 13 - December
31, 2005:
Buy Local, Boycott Wal-Mart and the Chains
Food For Thought: Before You Pull Out Your Wallet
Take the Breaking the Chains Pledge
The Breaking the Chains Buying Guide
USDA Bows to Organic Consumer Pressure on Body Care Labeling
How To Make Money Fast! - How To Save Money Fast!
OCA Lobbies for Sustainable Agriculture
Consumers Demand an End to Disastrous Cotton and Crop Subsidies
In Memoriam:
Lois Frances Mentele Werner,
Mother, Grandmother, Teacher, Activist
Spring 2005 - PDF · Text
Breaking the Chains
A Message from the Director
Action Alert: Biotech Bullying
- Time To Get Up Off Our Knees
- Restoring Consumer Choice
Join Us! Stand Up to the Bullies
OCA Campaign News
- Millions Against Monsanto
- Appetite for a Change
- Clothes For A Change
- SOS: Safeguard Organic Standards
- Mad Cow USA: Stop the Madness
- Coming Clean Campaign
- Toxic Cotton, Sweatshops, and US Farm Subsidies
OCA Helps Terminate the Terminator
Host a Breaking the Chains Potluck
- OCA House Party Packs
Autumn 2004 - PDF · Text
BioDemocracy vs. Biotechnology
- Frankencrops Pollute
- BioDemocracy Spreads
- Hemp Ban in US Reversed
Announcing The Organic Farmers and Gardeners Union
OCA Coupon Collection
OCA and the Native American Food Movement
OCA Campaign News
- Creating a Healthier Environment
- SOS: Safeguarding Organic Standards
- Mad Cow USA: Stop the Madness
- Coming Clean: Developing Organic Body Care Standards
- Organic Body Care Tips
- Clothes for a Change
- What's up With Fair Trade