surprise in the mailbox!

hows everyone doing today?! good i hope! i have some exciting stuff to share!

so, this morning, i was awoken by my father coming into my room with a small little package for me. he said, "i found this in the mailbox..."

it was wrapped very nicely in green paper... it said "2: Peter M."

upon opening this nice little gift, to my surprise, i found a

 pack of Camel No. 9's!

i dont know whether to be thankful or threatened!!! just kidding. i now plan on using them in my presentations as an example (with the story i just shared with you of course! "no kids, i dont buy cigarettes!")

but now my curiosity has the best of me... who dunnit? what was their intent? was it out of good humor? or was it a malicious attack?! aaah!

to say the least, after inspection of the package and cigarettes (side note: tobacco stinks just as bad when it isnt lit, than when it is... AND! it is HARD to fit 20 cigarettes back into those little boxes.) i found no clues as to who or why.

if anyone has any leads, please let me know! thanks!

ITS HERE!!!

advocates across the salt lake valley (and everywhere else, as far as im concerned!!!) will be joining forces to show Big Tobacco and our Legislature who has the power! whether it be flyers, or signs as big as cars... whispers, phone calls, or megaphones... our voices will be heard! oh yes... they will be heard!

WHO: You and anyone you know who cares about this issue, or just wants to have a good time.

WHAT: Telling the public and legislators that Utah cares about tobacco prevention and that we wont sit back and let Big Tobacco rob us of our health and economy.
Conduct YOUR OWN advocacy event. See www.stopthechop.com and www.project1200advocacy.blogspot.com for details and ideas.

WHEN: 4-6p.m. Friday, February 27, 2009 is the main event (but activities should start NOW, and go through March 11. any time, anywhere).

we will be meeting at 3:30 in the West High parking lot to begin a car caravan with signs and things on our cars... traveling around the city to get the word out.
at five we are going to have a rally outside the KUTV news station (just as the news starts) and shortly thereafter walk around the city with our signs and flyers to hand out!

WHERE: Anywhere and everywhere across Utah (and hey, why not the nation?!).
Main event: salt lake city.

WHY: Because Big Tobacco is a greedy, evil empire and it’s high time we told them who is in charge. Lives are at stake! do it for those who have died, do it for you, and do it for the future generations!

WHAT TO BRING: bring signs to carry and signs to put on your car. feel free to decorate your car as well! see the links (noted above) for ideas on what to put on the signs.
also, if you can, make a shirt that says, " 'Thanks Utah Legislature!' yours truly, Big Tobacco" (or something more creative... that was just on the spot)
or wear a shirt that you already have that supports the tobacco-free message!

if you have ANY questions, please call or email me!

this is going to be epic.
peter.moosman.

ADVOCACY ACTIVITY OF THE CENTURY!!!

hey everyone!!!

so just a little heads up, we are doing an advocacy activity next week (specifics to be announced soon!) in which we are definitely going to be holding our politicians accountable, and that will make big tobacco tremble... yeah, tremble!

the main event will be in salt lake city, but just because you dont live here doesnt mean you cant get involved. shortly i will be adding a list of things that ANYONE, ANYWHERE can do ANYTIME (but just for the special occasion, we hope you will do something with us!)

so hang tight for a little while, and i will keep you posted!

(p.s. - if anyone has a big ol' spotlight, please let me know! think... bat signal...)

truly yours truly,

peter.moosman.

stories?

my sister, Heather Moosman Hamilton, took her first drag in junior high, but didnt actually start smoking until she was sixteen.

cause? peer pressure.

she smoked until she was 23. around that time, she got married and let her family be her motivation. she wanted to be able to raise a healthy family and be a positive example for those around her (especially future children!).
whether she knows it or not, she has been a huge motivation to me. not only her desire to quit and making that desire a success, but for me to never start, and to become involved in helping others as well.
thanks to her, i am going on my 6th year of tobacco prevention involvement and starting Project:1200. thanks Heather!

please feel free to share your stories!
please share your motivations to get involved, stories of family and friends who either quit or lost their lives due to tobacco related illnesses. let the stories be encouragement to everyone!

yours in the fight,
.peter.moosman.

Friday the 13th at Castle of Chaos

sooo... WHATS UP?!

Project:1200 showed up for Castle of Chaos' friday the thirteenth event: Night of 10,000 Corpses! just to let you all know - the line was around the block!!! it was a huge success! and lucky for us, we brought some flyers to hand out (400 to be exact) and handed them ALL out! we didnt have enough for everyone!!! oh dang!

for those of you that heard of Project:1200 from the Castle of Chaos event, WELCOME TO THE CREW! take a look around and hop on board to fight against Big Tobacco!

and for everyone - some advocacy event ideas have been floating through my noggin, so expect to hear some exciting stuff happening with Project:1200 soon!

keep talking to you legislature about the tobacco tax increase and keeping tobacco prevention funded. we can make a huge impact!!!

.faith.hope.charity.
.peter.moosman.

pictures from rally!

hey everyone!!! we got the pictures from the rally up! if anyone else has some that they want posted. send them to openyoureyes87@hotmail.com. thanks to andrea passey for taking these ones!!!

DAY 2 ON CAPITAL HILL

success!
a few of us were up on capital hill today lobbying for the cause.
we talked to all of the leaders of the House of Representatives (minus the House Speaker, but we sent a fact sheet in to him), and we were able to speak with many committee members who will be voting on the budget. we even made a few contacts with other lobbyists that were up there, so hopefully we will be able to join forces to take down Big Tobacco.

the fight is still on!
if anyone has any suggestions, ideas, or tools to make this movement move forward, please let me know!

thanks for your help and support!
faith.hope.charity.
peter.moosman.

P.S. - there were lots of pictures taken, so expect to see pics up here from our activities shortly. thanks for your patience!

Are We Worth Nothing to You?

this is a video that was put together to send to the committee members that are discussing the Tobacco Prevention Program budgets for FY10.

there is still time to email it to them! their meeting is tomorrow afternoon! attach the following link to your email:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9pKIec3wo

now send it to these people:

achristensen@utahsenate.org, mdayton@utahsenate.org, pjones@utahsenate.org, dliljenquist@utahsenate.org, lhillyard@utahsenate.org, pknudson@utahsenate.org, gbell@utahsenate.org, sjenkins@utahsenate.org, skillpack@utahsenate.org, kmayne@utahsenate.org, lrobles@utahsenate.org, rromero@utahsenate.org, waddoups@utahsenate.org, ronbigelow@utah.gov, blast@utah.gov, dclark@utah.gov, bdee@utah.gov, kgarn@utah.gov, jgowans@utah.gov, dlitvack@utah.gov, blockhart@utah.gov, csmoss@utah.gov, jseelig@utah.gov, jdougall@utah.gov, rchouck@utah.gov, bcferry@utah.gov, keithgrover@utah.gov, kraigpowell@utah.gov, pray@utah.gov, rfrandsen@utah.gov, sjardine@utah.gov, Smallred@utah.gov, Jball@utah.gov

copy and paste it onto the BCC line of your email... then write a short message, urging them to keep tobacco prevention funded! thank you so much!!!

faith.hope.charity.
peter.moosman.

Project:1200's first event!

so heres the story:

the plan was to rally at the capital as the committee meetings were adjourned and talk to the politicians as they left the meeting.

Bad news: they adjourned early...
so when we got there, the capital was nearly free of those politicians. BUT when we got there, so did Fox 13 news, the SL Trib, Channel 4 news, and some journalists! so i got to do some interviews in behalf of the group (which will hopefully be on air. check it out!!!). we did get to talk to some other lobbyists, journalists, and politicians, but mostly just a bunch of random people.

when we met back in the main building, we noticed that there was another rally (much larger than ours, mind you) up in the rotunda. it was a rally to allow gay couples to adopt.
we decided to use this to our advantage.
one of our rally-ers had a stack of paper, so i began to make signs and little business cards to hand out.

it said something along the lines of:

Big Tobacco thinks the LGBT community is SCUM! thats why they named their LGBT campaign, Project SCUM (Sub Culture Urban Marketing). pissed off? do something. brought to you by Project 1200
or
Project SCUM. Big tobacco's campaign to target the LGBT community.

anyways... we changed our focus of the rally at the end, and i think we got our point across! and we got the Project 1200 name out!

and you can expect to see many of us back up there tomorrow before they make the final votes! please join us!