WASHINGTON — On Friday at 1 p.m., right-to-know activists representing more than 100 organizations will deliver petitions, signed by nearly 250,000 people so far, to President Barack Obama at the White House. The petitions ask the President to veto S. 764, a bill known as the DARK Act because it would Deny Americans the Right to Know about GMO foods.

WHAT: Veto the DARK Act petition delivery. About 250,000 signatures were collected over the course of a few days, on coalition organizations’ websites, as well as WhiteHouse.gov, ThePetitionSite.org, and MoveOn.org, where over 108,700 people signed. The petitions are live and continue to generate signatures.

WHERE: The White House (Lafayette Square), 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20500.

WHEN: Friday, July 15, 2016, 1 p.m.

WHO: The African American food justice advocates who initiated petitions to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama: Stephanie Anderson, a Congressional candidate in Florida’s 23rd District, and Samantha McDaniel, a nutrition educator with the DC Healthy Babies Project. They will be joined by right-to-know activists representing more than 100 organizations, including Organic Consumers Association, Center for Food Safety, Citizens for GMO Labeling, Consumers Union, Cornucopia Institute, Food Babe, Food Democracy Now, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, GMO Free USA, GMO Inside, Label GMOs, March Against Monsanto, Millions Against Monsanto, Moms Across America, National Organic Coalition, Occupy Monsanto, Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, Vermont Right to Know GMOs, A letter from the coalition to the President can be found here: http://goo.gl/forms/d9Ln1MCcatSHwvFS2