Take Action
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| Principal | Suicide Prevention |
| Homebase | USA |
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| Website | Official Site |
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Punk rock has been known to accentuate the negative, but a number of bands have joined to promote suicide-prevention efforts on the Sub City Take Action! Tour... ..USA Today
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[edit] Purpose
This tour is about much more than just music. It..s a way to get information out to kids, who might be at risk, and it helps people realize that depression and things like that are legitimate mental illnesses... .. Sugarcult guitarist Marko
You may be wondering what Take Action means. Like most things in life, names have different meanings to different people. To some, Take Action means a tour of cool punk and hardcore bands; to others, it means a CD compilation series filled with tons of well-known bands that comes out every year; and to others, Take Action means saving lives from suicide by finding warning signs early and realizing there are people who can help. To us at Sub City, Take Action is the idea that we will not wait for our world, our country, our government, our teachers, or even our parents to make ours and other people's lives better, creating a better world...one voice and one action at a time!
[edit] History
Since last year, Take Action! has become associated with the Youth America Hotline at 1-877-YOUTHLINE(968-8454), offering young people a network of their peers to turn to in times of crisis. Over the years, the tour has had the pleasure of working with bands such as Jimmy Eat World, Thrice, Thursday, Hot Water Music, Poison The Well, and many more; our title sponsor Hot Topic, other partner companies and sponsors like Chord Magazine, MTVU, Purevolume, Alternative Press Magazine, Tower Records, Etnies, Fanscape, Stim TV and many others; and we have received thousands of government-funding petition signatures and thousands of e-mails and letters from many of you who have been impacted by the tour.
[edit] How to Participate
Go to a show. Check out the website
