Project:1200: Project:1200's first event!

11 February, 2009

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!

1 comment:

About UsFebruary 12, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Might be a good idea to post petitions here also! Looks great.
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