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:

Brigitte Bardot Fine: Top 5 Bardotisms That Got Hot Sex Symbol In Hot Water

Obama Pound: In Historic Moment, White People Exposed To Fist Bump For First Time

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Nicole Hughes:

Get a Job: Top 10 Guides to Finding the Perfect Eco Career

Schwarzenegger Declares Drought in California

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Andy Kondrat:

Barcelona Fines Citizens for Using Drinking Water in Pools and Gardens

Coal Power Plants Waste Two-Thirds of Energy Input

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Jon Popham:

Megabus Expanding to the East Coast

Egyptian Blogger Freed from Prison

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Giulia Rozzi:

Diamonds In The Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution

Cluster Bomb Ban

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Gina Telaroli:

Interview with Nina Davenport, Director of Operation Filmmaker

KidZui : Internet for Kids (and Those Young at Heart)

Egyptian Blogger Karim el-Beheiri was freed from an Egyptian jail Sunday after weeks of imprisonment. El-Beheiri was locked for protesting price hikes and salary cuts at a factory in the industrial city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra in the Nile Delta along with fellow protesters Tarek Amin and Kamal al-Fayoumy.

While incarcerated el-Beheiri says the trio were subjected to weeks of torture. “We were subjected to electric shocks, to beatings and there was no food and or drink for the first few days,” he told Agence France Press one day after his release.

An Egyptian government official from the Ministry of the Interior denied the torture claims, saying “These are false accusations. Everything took place within a framework of human rights.”

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Human Rights Watch released a new report called Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States which found that blacks are arrested and imprisoned for drug-related crimes at a much higher rate than whites, although whites commit more drug offenses.  The report says that a black man is 12 times more likely to be sent to prison for a drug offense than a white man and a black woman, five times more likely than a white woman.

To learn how to stop this and other offensive actions that undermine our human rights visit http://hrw.org/ 

And read the full Targeting Blacks report at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/us0508/