Nicole Hughes
June 20, 2008 | 12:23 pm EST
It’s June 27th, I’m Gina Telaroli and this is TakePart.com’s look at the week in social action
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!
Nicole Hughes:
U.S. Media Ignores Link Between Midwest Floods and Global Warming
Top 10 Houseplants for Removing Indoor Air Pollution
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Dubai to Build Rotating Positive Energy Tower
Bioethicist Peter Singer Tackles World Food Shortage
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Jon Popham:
Americacorps Workers Assist Flood Ravaged Town
Australians “Out-Fat” Americans
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Giulia Rozzi:
Oprah Recommends “A New Earth”
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Gina Telaroli:
So the first week of Human Rights Watch is almost over so if you’re in NYC, catch something while you still can. I’ll be posting reviews of the remaining films in the next few days before they screen so keep checking back. Each film’s screening times will be listed and I’ll leave a schedule of reviews to come here.
Also in case you’re just tuning in now, here’s a little refresher on what’s already played:
Here’s what’s ahead:
After all is said and done I’ll post a comprehensive piece full of Takepart links that will let you connect to the issues in the film!
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) Director: Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath, Country: US/Laos; Release: 2008, Runtime: 100
Screened : Sat Jun 14: 6:30 and Sun Jun 15: 8:30
Ellen Kuras has been shooting other people’s movies for years and it turns out she has also been shooting her own. The Betrayal, which she made with and about her friend Thavisouk Phrasavath, takes it’s audience from Laos to New York from the 1980s to the present. It’s a film that deals with family, war and the bonds that we keep and the bonds that we break.
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