The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. In celebration of Earth Day 2008, we made ‘green’ the major theme on the TakePart blog this week - green documentaries and television programs, Earth Day quotes and action activities, as well as some great film reviews. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Top 10 Earth Day Videos From the Hub

Joanne Herring Invites You to “Charlie Wilson’s War” Screening Discussion - Free DVD!

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 10 Documentaries About the Environment

Top 10 Ways to Take Action On Earth Day 2008!

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Andy Kondrat:

Top 10 Quotes About the Environment

Disney Launches DisneyNature to Make Documentaries - I Freak Out

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Jon Popham:

B Corporation Takes the Guesswork Out of Going Green

Sea Level Rise Explorer

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Giulia Rozzi:

Oprah and My Mom Going Green

Green It. Mean It.

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Gina Telaroli:

Taking Part In the Blogsphere With “The Visitor” and “Standard Operating Procedure”

“The Soloist” Explores the Homeless and Mentally Ill With Grace and Music

Earth Day should be every day, but until then, we’ll have to keep celebrating the holiday. What better way to spend some quality Earth Day time than by watching some great Earth Day videos. Luckily, The Hub, an interactive community for human rights, where you can upload videos, audio or photos, brought to you Witness, has some great environmental videos for you to watch.

So here are the top 5 Hub Earth Day Videos that let you celebrate Earth Day and

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Robert Capa & Gerda Taro join Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, and Lucie & Raymond
Aubrac, in receiving one of my Valiant Valentines Awards for couples who love each other and the world, and work with each other to change the world. Robert Capa, one of the most famous, if not the most famous, war photographers of the last century, is best known for his photo Falling Soldier, which captures a shot soldier falling to his death during the Spanish Civil War. Gerda Taro, the less known photojournalist, is best known for being Capa’s artistic and romantic partner, not for her exceptional bravery and photography. The two brilliant photographers shared much in common: born Andre Friedmann, Capa, who was Jewish, fled the antisemitism of Hungary and went to Paris; born Gerda Pohorylle, the Jewish Taro escaped Germany’s antisemitism and moved to Paris, where she would meet Capa. They began collaborating artistically and Robert Capa was the name they created to sign their shared work. It was their shared love of freedom which brought the two to Spain, where they would document the Civil War– the bombed cities, the deaths and destruction– in the hopes of gathering support and raising awareness of the anti-Fascist cause and of the rising fascism, which they had known so well. Sharing a love for each other as well, they would photograph not just the war, but each other.

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Last night I went to the pre-premiere of the Film Comment Selects Series at New York’s Lincoln Center for a screening of George A Romero’s latest venture into zombiedom, Diary of the Dead.

The film focuses on a group of film students who while shooting a film learn that dead people are coming back as zombies and the world is turning into chaos. We follow the group as they try to figure out what’s going on and also as they hurry up and turn the video cameras on to document the experience. As the film progresses it becomes clear that the real villain is not the zombies but is in fact the video camera and people that are determined not to put it down, regardless of the consequences.

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Sylvester Stallone and Rambo are symbols of machismo, testosterone, fighting, shooting, punching, and… international human rights activism? To the people of Myanmar (Burma), who are living under an oppressive military junta, Rambo has become the poster boy for the pro-democracy movement, which, ironically, is non-violent, peaceful and largely Buddhist.

Nothing proves the democracy-inspiring potential of the film more than the Burmese Government’s decision to ban the movie, and the Burmese people’s decision to risk going to jail by downloading and burning dvds of the international blockbuster hit. Even the US Campaign for Burma applauds the film for its realistic representation of the brutality of the junta. SPOILER ALERT:

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WITNESS, the organization, which documents human rights issues and abuses through video and online technologies, and its new project, the Hub for Human Rights Media, the world’s first participatory media site empowering individuals and groups to share media and take action, are literally too cool for words. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But then a video is worth a million. Nothing shows the power of video better than a… powerful video.

I already wrote about the Hub. But I would be remiss if I didn’t let readers “witness” the Hub for themselves. So instead of introducing them to you, I’d rather The Hub for Human Rights Media, introduce itself, the way it does best, through video, posted above.

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WITNESS, the legendary organization which uses video and online technologies to reveal human rights violations, is now even cooler. (I didn’t think it was possible.)

WITNESS has created The Hub a spanking new website where you can find and upload human rights-related media and then go do something about it. So check out the Hub and start searching away. Here’s a video about Kenya I found just Hubbing around.

And if you’re a filmmaker you can too and start uploading your own footage!