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TakePart Social Action Network
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TakePart.com is a social action network™ where you connect actions to entertainment to make change. Join TakePart today:
- Get inspired by entertainment: films, television, music, books and online media
- Connect relevant social actions to the entertainment you love
- Add your own user generated content and actions to the mix
- Create your personal action dashboard + challenge yourself and others to make change
Recent Posts
Crush Global Warming: Declare Your Independence From Fossil Fuels
Music videos don’t typically address climate change, nor do the musicians usually give you a shout-out in the video, but the Alliance for Climate Education (A.C.E.) is giving you the chance to declare your independence from fossil fuels by crea...
Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua
laszlo-photo's Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles, prevent one billion people obt...
Social Action Roundup: Week of Nov. 20th
Participant Media presents entertainment that inspires and compels social change. Behind these films and issues, there are thousands of people nationwide who work tirelessly on campaigns that use the films as inspiration to make a difference. As a m...
My Last Post
Hi Readers! I’ve really enjoyed writing for this wonderful site over the past few years but, the time has come for me to leave the TakePart family. Although I will not longer be a Takepart.com blogger, I will continue to be a reader and suppor...
New Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening, Too
Well, it’s been an interesting week for women’s health issues: earlier this week Giulia noted that a panel is recommending fewer mammograms and starting later, and now, new guidelines are suggesting that women start getting screened for c...
Project Cuddle
I will never understand how anyone could abandon a baby. Luckily there are folks like Debbe Magnusen around to help care for those children left behind. In 1996 after reading a newspaper article about the discovery of a dead baby in a file cabinet in...

