The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!
Katie Halper:
Debra Winger and Rights Camera Action!
James Byrd Jr. and the Struggle for Tolerance
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Nicole Hughes:
Green Video of the Week: 5 Tips for Reducing Your Garbage
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Andy Kondrat:Disappearing Destinations: Visit Before They Vanish
Chuck Norris Wants America to Start Drilling for Oil Here and Now!
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Jon Popham:
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Giulia Rozzi:
Gay Discrimination at Seattle Baseball Game
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Gina Telaroli:
Fathers Day Celebration of Movie Dads #1
Individual, community and corporate efforts to better the environment are necessary and effective, but solutions for our environmental and energy crises have to come from systematic changes in our political system too. Want to know what’s going on behind the closed doors of those mysterious white buildings? Check out the week in green politics, and see for yourself: