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

The Week in Green Politics

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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:

NASA Plans Voyage to the Sun

The Girl Effect

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Giulia Rozzi:

Gay Discrimination at Seattle Baseball Game

Bison Brucellosis

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Gina Telaroli:

Fathers Day Celebration of Movie Dads #1

My Father’s Gift of Tecumseh!

Debra Winger, the actress best known for her performances in Terms of Endearment and Urban Cowbow, can add another profession to her resume– writer. Winger has just released her first book entitled Undiscovered. Winger shares her thoughts on acting, explaining “I love the work, and don’t much care for the business.” Winger also discusses the double standards faced by men and women in Hollywood:

Age is an issue in society as well as in the movies. If a man has an affair with a woman 20 years his junior, then most people see him as virile. But if a woman has an affair with someone 20 years her junior, most people look askance. Movies are a reflection of our society. I’ve come to a point where I’m interested in the freedom that comes when your sexuality and yourself are one. When you are younger, you tend to be posturing in your sexuality. And when you’re older, you tend to be at one with your sexuality.

Now Winger is not only a writer and actress, but an activist who has worked with the ACLU and is part of the ACLU’s Rights Camera Action campaign. The website explains

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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. 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)

indieWire has a great interview up with the director of the new documentary Operation Filmmaker. The film follows the story of a young Iraqi man who goes on MTV to express his desire to be a filmmaker and by chance actor and director Liev Schreiber saw his piece on MTV and had the young man come to work on his film Everything is Illuminated.

The results provide an interesting case study in cultural adjustment and creates an interesting dialogue about Western involvement/aid, as director Nina Davenport soon found out:

Please discuss how the idea for “Operation Filmmaker” came about.

David Schisgall, who made the MTV “True Life” piece that led to the story of Operation Filmmaker, is a friend from college. When Liev Schreiber saw David’s episode (”True Life: I’m Living in Iraq”) on MTV, he contacted David and proposed the idea of getting Muthana out of Iraq and bringing him to Prague to intern on the set of Everything is Illuminated-which Liev was slated to direct.

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