Posted by aubin on Friday, April 1, 2005 at 10:32 PM (EST)
Take Action! has announced their plans for the upcoming year as well as the results of this years tours and compilations. In 2005, the organization has raised over $65,000 in donations for the National Hopeline Network (1-800-SUICIDE), a suicide prevention and crisis hotline and the Youth America Hotline! 1-877-YOUTHLINE (1-877-968-8454), a peer-to-peer line pairing youth callers with youth crisis workers in their area.
Tour organizers gathered over 41,000 petition signatures at the shows this year, a 400 percent increase from the previous trek. The signed petitions will be sent to Congress requesting funding for a national suicide prevention strategy and asking that mental-health parity in health insurance coverage is implemented for all Americans. In February, the charity also took to Capitol Hill to call on Congress to fully appropriate the $82 million funding for the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, which passed September 9th, 2004. The act was introduced by Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) in memory of his son who died by suicide. The group also has plans for another compilation and tour for Winter 2006. Subcity Records (14 comments)
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IheartAdam (April 2, 2005)
I'd donate money if Adam set up a webcam in his bedroom. Wouldn't that be great? We could read and post all while watching him sleep in the lower right hand corners of the '.org home page.
Someone (April 2, 2005)
awesome awareness for an awesome cause. It's sad that this much attention has to be paid to suicide for some involvement to finally happen,
_Sexy_Pants_ (April 2, 2005)
I've been wanting to hear that Hot Water Music cover of Midnight Oil's Dreamworld on the first Take Action compilation. That song was fucking incredible
Someone (April 2, 2005)
Really great things Take Action does for the depressed and suicidal ones out there. Keep it up! http://www.damnsundaydrivers.com
Someone (April 2, 2005)
What a non-issue to be raising money for. Has anyone seen the tour booklet these knobs are handing out? It is unbelieveably laughable. "AP Cares! Subscribe now!"
Excuse me for being presumptious, but what dip-shit mainstream asshole DOESN'T want to help kids avoid suicide?
How about the "punk rock" "Take Action" tour raise money and awareness for something even REMOTELY marginalized?
Hey I know somewhere that there's a whole bunch of INVOLUNTARY suicides happening right now. Actually, a bunch of places. Iraq. Sudan. The West Bank. Closer to home - every fucking Native American reservation.
Personally, I think the white-bred suburbanite 14-year-olds who buy Hopeless shit couldn't be knocking themselves off quick enough. They're all future assholes who will no doubt be just like their parents, or worse, heaping ever more garbage on the planet and getting take-out show rest of comment 2+ Replies
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some good comps. i'm looking forward to the next one.