Turn It Down is youth, bands, parents, teachers, and friends in the record industry speaking out, standing up, and turning down the sounds of hate.
Thousands of young people and hundreds of bands, record labels, distributors, pressing facilities, and booking agents have joined to work against the spread of hatred.
White power music has become the most significant recruiting tool for organized bigots across the globe. It has succeeded in infiltrating numerous youth subcultures, transforming healthy youth rebellion into hardcore white supremacy. The Turn It Down Campaign seeks not to demonize all youth culture, but to create a culture that is immune to the hatred and violence that white power music represents by teaming with young people, parents and teachers, and the record industry.
At the bottom of this page you will find guides for parents, teachers, bands, the record industry, and youth on how to use this site. You can hear young people telling their stories of dealing with bigotry, listen to anti-racist music, and learn what you can do and how you can get involved - right here on turnitdown.com.
This is a commendable policy, and from what we hear, Myspace is fairly quick to delete profiles of individuals and bands who are viably reported for promoting bigotry, including those who use hate symbols on their pages. However, Myspace depends on individual users to report other users who are in violation of this policy. We are building a relationship with Myspace’s Music Division which will allow us to forward all pages of documented white power bands and musicians, to be immediately deleted.
Check us out at www.myspace.com/turnitdownnow, and pass the link along to anyone you know on MySpace.
We are excited to announce the online release of the Turn It Down Resource Kit, a first-ever practical manual for responding to hate music with sections for youth, parents, teachers, administrators, and the record industry.
The Turn It Down Resource Kit is your guide to effectively and creatively respond to white power music.
The book draws upon of hundreds of interviews and decades of experience to help craft a unique ‘Do-It-Yourself’ handbook on countering bigotry.
Please take a look at our information section to download the entire book, or to select from various sections of the report.
We hope you enjoy it. Please let us know what you think.
