V-Board Member Rosario Dawson & Bottega Veneta Team Up To Support V-Day for ‘Fashion’s Night Out’ in NYC!

V-Board Member Rosario Dawson is teaming up with Bottega Veneta for a special cocktail party to raise money for V-Day, the worldwide activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and to celebrate the second annual Fashion’s Night Out in New York City.

Fashion’s Night Out, a worldwide initiative to celebrate fashion and support local economies will take place from 6pm – 11pm on September 10th, 2010. Bottega Veneta will be donating 10% of sales from this evening to V-Day.

WHO: Rosario Dawson & Bottega Veneta
WHEN: Friday, September 10, 2010 6:00pm – 11pm
WHERE: Bottega Veneta, 699 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Space is limited, so please RSVP by calling 646-292-5885

Source: VDAY

Other guests: Kathy Griffin, Pam Grier, Neve Campbell, Michael Madsen, Eli Roth, Patricia Arquette, Rob Schneider, Uma Thurman, Harvey Weinstein, Sarah Silverman, Rosario Dawson, Bob Weinstein, Michelle Rodriguez, and more! Maybe you, if you crash it! They’ll probably let anyone with a Vincent Vega wig in. Who are these “friars” to say you are not John Travolta? Oh my God. Are you John Travolta?

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Rosario Dawson wants you all to check out the following PSA put together by Generation WE.

Millennials are the largest generation in American history. Born between 1978 and 2000, WE are 95 million strong, compared to the 78 million Baby Boomers. WE are politically, socially, and philosophically independent, and are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. The new book, Generation We, explains the emerging power of our Millennial Generation, and shows how WE (and older people who think the way WE do) are poised to change our nation and our world for the better.

FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE BOOK

BUY AT AMAZON: Generation We: How Millennial Youth are Taking Over America And Changing Our World Forever

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The best psa I’ve ever seen. Soooo powerful! I’m soooo excited. It’s time for us to stop mincing words & be emboldened from our hearts! WE can do it!!!! Please share with EVERYONE. WE can be the change… WE are the change. WE IS the change.

- Rosario Dawson

That age-old quest for meaning—Who am I? What is my calling? How can I make the world better?—gets a 21st-century makeover. Courtney E. Martin abandons the empty “save the world” rhetoric and ’60s nostalgia that her generation was raised on and doggedly pursues the gritty truth about social change in contemporary America. It’s complicated. It’s challenging. And, yet, it’s still possible.

In DO IT ANYWAY (Beacon Press, 2010), Martin deeply explores the lives of eight activists—not superhuman heroes, but ordinary young people searching for their own way to make a difference. Among others, we meet Raul Diaz, a prison re-entry social worker at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles; Nia Robinson, an African American climate change activist out of Detroit; Maricela Guzman, a former soldier fighting to end violence against women in the military through the Service Women’s Action Network; and Rosario Dawson, an actor struggling to use her celebrity for social change while staying authentic in her activism.

In direct opposition to an older generation’s cry that young people are apathetic and disengaged, DO IT ANYWAY reveals a new generation of activism and calls on young people to transcend school-required community service and paper-pushing nonprofit jobs in favor of the kind of work that keeps you up at night because you believe in it so deeply.

For more information please visit: http://www.doitanywaybook.org/

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“I haven’t made it a secret that I’m strongly opposed to the Arizona law and I’ve been pretty vocal about it,” Longoria-Parker, 35, says in the PSA for Voto Latinos & Mun2′s ‘United We Win’ campaign. “It’s unfortunate that this immigration issue has been on the national agenda for the past three administrations.”

Dawson — who co-founded Voto Latino in 2004 — tells UsMagazine.com that she brought the stars together to encourage young people to get involved in fighting for Arizona citizens’ civil rights by visiting the polls on November 2.

“We recognize that this isn’t just a Mexican issue or a Latino issue… There are people blogging and Tweeting for everything, from the BP spill to education and healthcare,” Dawson, 31, tells Us. “We’re all buzzing about these things, but unless we’re actually marching to the polls, nothing is going to actually change.”

The Seven Pounds actress compares the goals of Voto Latino’s initiative to those of Martin Luther King, Jr., who encouraged young people to actively make an impact in their communities.

“When you look back at Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, he got arrested and asked everyone else to get arrested….and people were afraid to step forward,” she says. “Who was going to be the people who stepped up? The people who did were high schoolers because they weren’t afraid of being arrested. We’re all underage, and that was really crucial in getting the civil rights movement going — getting young people’s participation.”

Under the current Arizona law, Longoria-Parker says she worries that racial profiling will lead to discriminatory pursuits of legal citizens.

“I think the biggest misconception is that everybody who is dark or of color is from somewhere else. I’m ninth-generation American. I’m more American than a lot of my Anglo friends,” she says. “If my father got pulled over because of the color of his skin, I could guarantee you I would be outraged.”

That’s exactly why Valderrama says it’s so important to spread the word and take action now.

“We’re really trying to inspire our younger community, of any demographic or culture,” the actor, 30, tells Us. “If we don’t inspire them to understand the platform they have today, we’re going to have two or three more presidencies and we’re going to be playing catch-up to other mistakes. It’s now or never.”

Other celebrities contributing to the campaign — which will debut in September — include Jessica Alba, hip-hop star Common, Amy Smart and Entourage actress Carla Gugino.

Source: US Weekly

An exploration of the notion of GOD and a Call for World Peace.

narrated by Sharon Stone

with Deepak Chopra, Michael Beckwith, Desmond Tutu, Mustapha Cherif, Oliver Stone, Mark Walhberg, Karen Armstrong, Rosario Dawson, Amit Goswami, Dr. Emoto Masaru, Ervin Laszlo and so many others.

View in HD:

“United We Win brings together the majority of like-minded Americans who are taking a stand against intolerance and divisive immigration legislation. Racial profiling disguised as immigration enforcement sets our country back and goes against our core American values.

Arizona’s immigration law and others like it define what an American looks like and erode our rights. Not surprisingly, a majority of young people, African-American, Latino, and Asian voters disapprove of Arizona’s SB1070 law for this very reason. Unfortunately, copy-cat laws are spreading like wildfire across our country.

United We Win sends a clear message to politicians that America is a country founded on the idea that all people are created equal regardless of race and that all citizens have the right to equal protection under the law.

This mid-term election, send a clear message to your elected representative: We’re here and we vote.

REGISTER TO VOTE: http://tinyurl.com/2e86l2l“

We’ve uploaded over 40 new photos from the shoot. Photos are up in the gallery, registration is free and easy so head on over to view. There will be tons of updates there throughout the week. Follow us on twitter @RosarioOnline for the latest site updates and news about Rosario Dawson.

MTV has teamed up with Eve Ensler, who was behind the cultural phenom The Vagina Monologues, for another project with revolutionary potential.

Starting yesterday, MTV began rolling out a series of short-form videos (check out Dear Rihanna above) that bring Ensler’s New York Times bestselling I am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World to life on MTV and MTV.com.

“I am thrilled to be part of this project with MTV where girls and the empowerment and protection of girls are front and center,” Ensler says. “It’s really been a pleasure helping put a new ‘V’ in MTV.”

Rosario Dawson and Aubrey Plaza from Parks and Recreation and Jessica Stroup from 90210 are lending their acting chops to the powerhouse team, “tackling hot button teen issues including safe sex, sexual pressure, sexting, constant connectedness and dating abuse,” a news release states.

To check out this series, read monologues from these works or watch interviews with Ensler and Dawson, head to http://www.emotionalcreature.mtv.com.

Source: USA Today

The following is a message from Voto Latino, the organization co-founded by Rosario Dawson.

United We Win, our upcoming 2010 midterm elections voter registration campaign to UNITE us, will launch soon!  We’ve chosen you, to get an exclusive sneak peak into the campaign.  Here’s what you can do:

1. Text UNITED to 30644 to be the first to know when we launch and learn how to get involved in the movimiento.
2. LIKE the United We Win Facebook Fan Page!  We are building a movement that extends out of our networks to help effect change among the mainstream. Suggest us to  EVERYONE!
3. Check out our behind-the-scenes video for our upcoming PSA with Cameron Diaz, Padma Lakshmi, and Morena Baccarin!