Social Action + Cinema Videos of the Day:

1) World Music Best - Papa Wemba & Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Mother’s Day is this Sunday (don’t forget!), so be sure to take a look at some of the great posts we’ve put together in celebration of moms everywhere! Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Top 10 Mother’s Day E-Cards

Hillary Andrews Will Not Lick Bob Stokes’ Swizzle Stick

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas For Mothers Day

Peak Oil Strip Tease

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Andy Kondrat:

Tornado Devestated Town Rebuilds As Green Model Community

Radiohead Attempts An Eco-Friendly World Tour

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Jon Popham:

Nepalese Art Photography: Rubin Museum of Art

America’s First Wind-Powered City

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Giulia Rozzi:

Women For Women International Celebrates Mothers Day

Even More on the Kentucky Derby

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Gina Telaroli:

Video Blog: The Week In Social Action

The War Now Tomorrow and Forever

Bjork released the video for her song “Wanderlust” from the album Volta on DVD yesterday. The 3-D animated video picturing surreal natural landscapes, including a barrage of futuristic water buffalo, transforms her trademark kaleidoscopic imagery into a tribute to our earthly world. The video was created by San Francisco based Encyclopedia Pictura over the course of approximately 9 months. The video’s creators said in a New York Times video interview that the inspiration for it came from frolicking about in the forest on certain psychedelic substances.

Check out the 2-D preview below:

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Last month I blogged about Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN). I also blogged about Bjork. Today I’m blogging about both. Well, sorta. I’m blogging about Sandra Oh and her support of SWAN Day and love for Bjork.

Star of the hit television series, Grey’s Anatomy, Sandra filmed a short video for SWAN day where she talked about one of her favorite women artists, Bjork. (View the video by clicking here).

The folks at SWAN Day believe that women artists will make much more progress if we work actively to inspire and help each other. If you would like to share a story about a time when you were inspired, gained courage, or learned something important from another woman artist, and write to info@WomenArts.org. , they will be posting more stories and videos in the coming months.

Things don’t seem to be getting any better in China as a deadly riot broke out on Saturday In Beijing.

A peaceful monk-dominated demonstration gave way to angry looting/arson/chaos/etc. over the past few days, and now the streets of Lhasa are full of tanks and teargas and fires. [Jezebel]

The chaos is being blamed on many including followers of the Dalai Lama which China accused of “masterminding the uprising, which shatters its carefully-cultivated image of national harmony in the build-up to the Beijing Olympic Games.”

One of those “followers” is Bjork who, last month shouted “˜Tibet, Tibet’ after singing her song “Declare Independence” at a concert in Shanghai. The Chinese Culture Ministry said her actions “broke Chinese law and hurt Chinese people’s feelings.”

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Icelandic singer Bjork upset Chinese officials last Sunday in Shaghai when she shouted “Tibet, Tibet” after performing her song “Declare Independence.” The incident has caused China to tighten its restrictions on foreign performers.

China’s Ministry of Culture responded to Bjork’s action on Friday by posting a statement on its Web site, saying that she “broke Chinese law and hurt Chinese people’s feelings,” The Associated Press reported. Bjork has sung the song before in support of independence movements; performing in Japan in February, she dedicated it to Kosovo. [NY Times]

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If you haven’t seen Time Magazine’s Top 10 Live Performances yet, here’s your special Super Tuesday Treat - you all deserve it for getting out there and doing your civic duty. Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma” gave me goosebumps! View them all here, courtesy of YouTube. You can also by visiting Little Kids Rock to see what you can do to help bring free musical instruments and music instruction to public school children.

#1 - Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma”
Wales Millennium Center, March 27, 2007

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