Speeches and film from Take Action! conference at Capitol Hill

The people behind the Take Action! Tour have produced a short video documenting their third visit to Capitol Hill to urge policymakers to emphasize mental health issues. The group, including founder and Hopeless Records boss, Louis Posen, previously visited the Hill in 2006 and in 2005.

Also in attendance will be Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Howard
Berman (D-CA), Youth America Hotline Spokesperson and Miss New
Mexico 2006 Ane Romero, as well as Ronnie Winter, lead singer for The Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus- the headliners of the 2007 Take Action! Tour.

Representative Kenny gives an impassioned speech urging both citizens and the government to treat mental illness as one of the great public health epidemics" of our time. He askes for each person to "do their part" to "knock down the stigma and shame" that prevents mental illness from being taken seriously.

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