What do Brigitte Bardot, beach litter, and American rappers on skid row have in common? They’re all on the TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup!   The 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:

Pras On Skid Row (Literally)

Top 10 Reasons to Go to the Havana Film Festival in New York

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Nicole:

6 Million Pounds of Trash Found On World’s Beaches In One Day

“Take A Bite” Out of Climate Change

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Giulia:

Once Upon A Time Mommy Wasn’t This Pretty

We Can Solve It

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Gina:

The Fresh Air of the Flight of the Red Balloon and Hou Hsiao Hsien

Brigitte Bardot on Trial for Her Contempt Towards Muslims

Thanks to the Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY), you can see some of the great films that are part of the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, AKA the Havana Film Festival. In its 9th year, HFFNY features full-length features, documentaries, short films, classics and animation from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the United States.

Here are 10 reasons you won’t want to miss the festival.

1) ESTELA BRAVO RETROSPECTIVE: WITNESS OF HER TIME. FREE! (Tuesday April 15th) Check out three films of the Brooklyn born American filmmaker Estela Bravo, the director of 30 award-winning documentaries on Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the US. Then stay for a talk between Bravo and filmmaker Tami Gold.

2. Holy Father and Gloria, Bravo’s moving account about Carmen Gloria, a Chilean student whom the Chilean military doused with gasoline and set on fire in 1986 and Pope John Paul’s visit to Chile a year later, which ignited a massive outpouring against the repressive Pinochet regime.

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Say Happy Easter by being  a good egg and giving good gifts. Even if you’re shopping last minute, it’s easy to find good gifts right away at stores open on Easter. Instead of buying chocolate made by child labor, choose from these chocolate brands that are fair trade and organic and are available in grocery stores, supermarkets and drug stores.

1. You can find Dagoba Organic Chocolate in Whole foods. Founder Frederick Schilling, explains “If true chocolate is to be kept in existence, we must encourage sustainable production of fine flavor cacao, through partnerships where farmers earn enough to do this.”

2. Luckily, you don’t have to go to Ithaca to find Art Bars (Ithaca Fine Chocolates’). They’re available at several stores throughout the country. Just click the Art Bars Near You link to see where you can buy these fair trade certified chocolates.

3. Newman’s Own Organics chocolate bars are made on child labor-free Latin American farms where nobody “owns” anybody. But if you want to buy, give or own any Newman’s Own chocolate, choose among these stores, including Whole Foods and Henry’s/Wild Oats. Eat like stars (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward)!

4. Green and Black’s chocolates are green-friendly and slavery-free and available at Whole Foods, Henry’s/Wild Oats.

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By Katie HalperWhen Spain’s King Juan Carlos asked Chavez to shut up at the Ibero-American Summit in Chile , he unwittingly turned himself into a pop star, attaining a level of fame no money or monarchy could buy. The King’s ¿por qué no te callas?”(why don’t you shut up?) has been branded on mugs and t-shirts, broadcast all over the globe, turned into a major YouTube hit and has even become a ring tone for cell phones. But the most creative representation of the fight between the Spanish King and the Venezuelan president is the Reggaetón music video featured below. Not only is the video fun, and the music great, but it contains an important political message. Reggaetón, the successful, popular, and appealing blend of hip hop, reggae, and Latin American Carribean music shows us that in-spite of the inter-iberic conflict displayed at the summit, inter-cultural cooperation is not only possible, but danceable.