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House Party Menu
1. BioDemocracy House Party
2. Independent America House Party
3. Breaking the Chains House Party
4. The Future of Food House Party
5. Mad Cow Awareness House Party
6. Greening of Cuba House Party

OCA House PartiesOCA House Parties are a great way to connect with friends and neighbors to organize around important issues of the day.

Host a BioDemocracy Alliance House Party with The GMO Trilogy

The GMO Trilogy is a new DVD and CD set produced by bestselling author Jeffrey Smith, which shows how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment at risk, may impact consumer perceptions and buying habits.
GMO Trilogy DVD

The GMO Trilogy
is sponsored by:
Eden Foods, Nature’s Path, Nutiva, Organic Valley, NOW Foods, French Meadow Bakery,
Frey Vineyards, Organic Food Bar, Organic Consumers Association, Sweet Wheat, Seventh Generation, The Institute for Responsible Technology, and others.

Click here to order

The three-disc set includes:

Disc 1, DVD:
Unnatural Selection

Awarded “Best Film,” (CineEco, Portugal), “Best Long Production,” (IEFF, Brazil), and “Best Journalistic Achievement,” (IEFF, Germany). “Meticulously researched, excellently photographed” (Ökomedia)

This stunning European documentary made available for the first time in the US, reveals several harsh consequences of genetic engineering worldwide. A failed GM cotton crop prompts farmer suicides in India.

Windborne GM canola contaminates organic and conventional farms in Canada. One farmer fights Monsanto in the Supreme Court.

A company seeks approval for giant GM salmon that may threaten the survival of the natural species.

GM pigs are born with ghastly mutations.

And experts reveal how inadequate testing and regulations put us at risk.

It features Vandana Shiva, Andrew Kimbrell, Percy Schmeiser and others.

Disc 2, DVD:
Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods

Shocking research results, inadequate regulations and warnings from eminent scientists explain why GM foods are dangerous and should be removed from kids’ meals.

The dramatic story of how student behavior in a Wisconsin school was transformed with a healthy diet provides added motivation to make a change. It features Jeffrey Smith and more than a dozen scientists and experts.

“Hidden Dangers pierces the myth that our government is protecting our food supply.”
John Robbins, Diet for a New America

“It will change the way you look at food forever.” Howard Lyman, Mad Cowboy

“The revelations in Hidden Dangers make our choice clear— take needless risks with genetically engineered food or just say no to this madness.”
Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

“Watch this video and start educating yourself.” Candace Pert, PhD, Molecules of Emotion

“When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn’t want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.” Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism

Disc 3, Audio CD:
You’re Eating WHAT?

Jeffrey Smith, author of the world’s bestselling book on GM foods, Seeds of Deception, describes how biotech companies rigged research, hid health dangers and pressured government regulators to approve food that even FDA scientists said was unsafe.

“The most powerful presentation I have ever heard on the issue of genetically engineered foods.” Craig Winters, The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

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Host an Independent America House Party and Break the Chains!

Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop
Filmmakers take to the Road to Uncover Growing Insurgency Against Big Box Retail
Independent America
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Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop
is an entertaining account of Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes's expedition through 32 states as they look for an America unchained by corporate retail. Self-imposed road rules bar them from major highways and corporate chain retail. Traveling on alternative roads, the duo can only do business with Mom & Pop.

These days, you have to go out of your way if you want to do business with Mom & Pop. One couple has taken that notion a little bit farther 13,000 miles farther to be exact.

Independent filmmakers and award-winning journalists, Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes, take the road less traveled in a thought provoking new documentary, which uncovers the growing opposition to big box retail across the U.S. and the often desperate fight being waged by independent retailers to stay alive.

Four easy steps to get started
  1. Download your House Party Manual for sample invitations, ideas, and materials about how to hold a successful gathering:
  2. Email the OCA or call 218-226-4164 to let us know you are interested.
  3. Order Independent America online or by email: film@independentamerica.net
  4. Consider posting your thoughts and experiences with your house party on OCA's Web forum and chat center . This web section also provide great tools for helping you organize your event online with others in your area! Questions about using the forum? Email Craig at the OCA.

The True Cost of Food

The True Cost of Food

The True Cost of Food DVD

A powerful and humorous 15 minute DVD which is suitable for both children and adults. Produced by the Sierra Club and Freerange Graphics (the makers of The Meatrix), The True Cost of Food is a simple and effective film that explores the inherent dangers of the industrial food system.

What Will We Eat
What Will We Eat: The Search fo Healthy Local Food - Chris Bedford Films - (26 min)

What Will We Eat tells the story of the growing failure of the industrial food system and how a grassroots coalition of small farmers and consumers is inventing a healthy, humane, homegrown alternative.

"This film offers activists an incredibly effective tool for change!" - Niel Ritchie, League of Rural Voters.

Host a Breaking the Chains House Party

For a donation of $25, OCA will send you a 2 DVD set of What Will We EAT and True Cost of Food and a BTC Party Pack with information on how to Break the Chains by buying Local, Organic, and Fair Made
Four easy steps to get started
  1. Download your House Party Manual for sample invitations, ideas, and materials about how to hold a successful gathering:
  2. Email the OCA or call 218-226-4164 to let us know you are interested.
  3. Make your donation of $25 (includes shipping and handling) to receive your 2 DVD set of The True Cost of Food & What Will We Eat, and your OCA House Party Manual. You can make your donation one of three ways:
    • PHONE: Call the OCA - 218-226-4164
    • MAIL: Send your donation with a note indicating you'd like the Breaking the Chains party pack, to:
      Organic Consumers Association
      6771 South Silver Hill Drive, Finland MN 55603
    • WEB: Donate online with our secure credit card form.
      In the "Comments" box on the credit card form, please indicate you'd like the Breaking the Chains party pack.
  4. Consider posting your thoughts and experiences with your house party on OCA's Web forum and chat center . This web section also provide great tools for helping you organize your event online with others in your area! Questions about using the forum? Email Craig at the OCA.
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The Future of Food
The Future of Food

The Future of Food, a film by Deborah Koons Garcia, provides an in-depth investigation and critique of GE foods and crops, including interviews with farmer activists such as Percy Schmeiser.

According to the Telluride Daily Planet, "This stylish film is not just for food faddists and nutritionists. It is a look at something we might not want to see: Monsanto, Roundup and Roundup-resistant seeds, collectively wreaking havoc on American farmers and our agricultural neighbors around the world. In the end, this documentary is a eloquent call to action."

More information:

Wired Magazine review

Alternet News Review

Former Top Biotech Booster, Tom Hoban, Gives Favorable Review to The Future of Food

The Future of Food Fires Up Consumer Activists

Host a Future of Food House Party

For a donation of $25, OCA will send you a DVD of The Future of Food, an OCA house party manual, and an action guide on how to spread GE-Free Zones in your local area or region.

Four easy steps to get started
  1. Download your House Party Manual for sample invitations and tips and ideas about how to hold a successful gathering. The manual is available for download in two different file types.
  2. Email the OCA or call 218-226-4164 to let us know you are interested.
  3. Make your donation of $25 (includes shipping and handling) to receive your DVD of The Future of Food, and your OCA house party manual. You can make your donation one of three ways:
    • PHONE: Call the OCA - 218-226-4164
    • MAIL: Send your donation with a note indicating you'd like The Future of Food party pack, to:
      Organic Consumers Association
      6771 South Silver Hill Drive, Finland MN 55603
    • WEB: Donate online with our secure credit card form.
      In the "Comments" box on the credit card form, please indicate you'd like The Future of Food house party pack.
  4. Post your event date on OCA's new Web forum and chat center . This web section also provide great tools for helping you organize your event online with others in your area. Just click here and then choose the forum "HOUSE PARTY" You can post your events there and even creat discussion groups! Questions about using the forum? Email Craig at the OCA.

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Host a Mad Cow Campaign Fundraiser/House Party

Mad Cow Disease:
Plague of the 21st Century?
Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century?

Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century? with Dr. Greger provides a detailed expose of in-depth investigation and critique of factory farming, Mad Cow's impact on human health and the US government coverup.
"Michael Greger's work is imbued with deep commitment, discerning intelligence, and life-affirming compassion. His work is a gift to our times." -John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America

For a donation of $15, OCA will send you a DVD of the Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century?, an OCA House Party manual, and a Mad Cow action guide.

Meet up with other pro-organic, anti-industrial agriculture activists in your community. Help spread information about organic, sustainable and ethical meat and dairy farms nationwide. Join the OCA to host a Mad Cow Campaign fundraiser/house party, featuring an exclusive screening of the powerful presentation, Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century? featuring OCA scientist Dr. Michael Greger, MD.

You can host a house party in your home, community center, place of worship, farmers market or natural food coop. Our goal is to build strong, informed communities while promoting family farmed, organic meat and dairy production. The OCA will provide you with the film and checklist for hosting a house party, as well as a comprehensive guide for creating true alternatives to Mad Cow and Factory Farms. OCA members have sent over 20,000 petition signatures to the USDA demanding:

Mandatory testing for all cattle brought to slaughter, before they enter the food chain.

A ban on the feeding of blood, manure, and slaughterhouse waste to animals.

That the USDA stop harassing farmers and food processors
who are interested in independently testing their own beef.

But we need more volunteers and local OCA activists to educate their community and keep the pressure on the Federal, State and Local Government. Order yours now.

How to get started:
  1. Make your donation of $15 to receive your DVD of Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century? your OCA House Party Manual, and Mad Cow action guide. You can make your donation one of three ways:
    • PHONE: Call the main OCA office (218-226-4164)
    • MAIL: Send your donation with a note indicating you'd like the Mad Cow house party pack. Organic Consumers Association, 6771 South Silver Hill Drive, Finland MN 55603
    • WEB: Donate online with our secure credit card form. In the "Comments" box on the credit card form, please indicate you'd like the Mad Cow house party pack.
  2. We will send you your Mad Cow DVD documentary and manual for organizing your house part or community event. We will also help you advertise your event on our website and to the press, if these are options you are interested in pursuing.
  3. Email information@OrganicConsumers.org or call 218-226-4164 let us know you are interested (or with any questions you may have).
  4. For more information on the Mad Cow, please visit OCA's Mad Cow Campaign page.

Host a Greening of Cuba House Party

The Greening of Cuba
The Greening of Cuba DVD

The OCA, in collaboration with Food First, is offering the groundbreaking video, The Greening of Cuba, for educational house parties.

The Greening of Cuba profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture model, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest for self-sufficiency, Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting edge organic techniques.

Cuba is the world's leader in organic agriculture. Cuba has demonstrated to the world that it is possible to radically shift from industrial, toxic agriculture to farmer centered, organic agriculture.

When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80 percent of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half its petroleum--the mainstays of its highly industrialized agriculture. Challenged with growing food for 11 million in the face of the continuing US embargo, Cuba embarked on the largest conversion to organic farming ever attempted.

Told in the voices of the women and men--the campesino, researchers, and organic gardeners--who are leading the organic agriculture movement, The Greening of Cuba reminds us that developed and developing nations alike can choose a healthier environment and still feed their people.

To order your Greening of Cuba party pack for $30:
  1. Make your donation of $30 to receive your DVD or video of "Greening of the Cuba," your OCA house party manual, and OCA Cuba Reader. You can make your donation one of three ways:
    • PHONE: Call the main OCA office (218-226-4164)
    • MAIL: Send your donation with a note indicating you'd like the house party pack
      (please also note whether you'd prefer video cassette or DVD).
      Organic Consumers Association, 6771 South Silver Hill Drive, Finland MN 55603
    • WEB: Donate online with our secure credit card form. In the "Comments" box on the credit card form, please indicate you'd like the CUBA house party pack (please also note whether you'd prefer video cassette or DVD)
  2. Email: information@organicconsumers.org or call 218-226-4164 let us know you are interested (or with any questions you may have).
Download the
Cuba Reader
in PDF format
Support the grassroots effort to End the Travel Ban Against Cuba

The freedom to travel is a fundamental right of Americans. Travel helps farmers and businesses promote trade, and it increases American jobs. Lifting the ban on travel to Cuba will help redirect federal resources away from wasteful enforcement activities to bona fide efforts that truly fight terrorism. Restoring the freedom to travel will unite Cuban families on both sides of the Florida Straits. It will also enable our scholars, students, and artists to share information and knowledge consistent with our historic commitment to academic and cultural freedom. For more information on Travel Ban Against Cuba, please visit: www.cubaactionday.org

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