Stories from 2 October 2016
Botched English translation in Kyoto implies elderly people are “terrible drivers”
"Why has the English translation ended up like this? This is offensive to elderly people and unacceptable coming from an international city."
The Women Who Resisted Uruguay’s Dictatorship Get a Film Honoring Their Heroism
Manane Rodriguez's “Migas de Pan” tells the story of a group of women tortured and sexually abused by Uruguay's dictatorship, set thirty years after the regime's fall.
Tourist Video Featuring Ancient King Tests the Boundaries of Artistic Expression in Thailand
"If (the cultural ministry) monopolises any form of art, drains it of involvement by the common man, that art is likely to go extinct."
Polish Pro-Choice Protest Movement Prepares Nationwide Strike on “Black Monday”
On October 3 many women in Poland will not be at their work stations, and housewives will leave domestic chores undone.
Jamaicans Get Fired Up About the U.S. Presidential Contest and a Popular Singer's Shock Endorsement
"After all that brouhaha, all the rage — it is time now to forgive the woman. For all the good she has done and sung, we owe her that…"
50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
“People don’t leave their own stories, people don’t leave letters, or diaries, or other types of autobiographies or personal stories.”
When Russia's Homeless Population Starts Talking
When Anastasia Ryabtseva first tried interviewing homeless people in St. Petersburg, many of them refused to talk to her. As a journalist, she startled people, who were suspicious by default.
GV Face: After More than Five Decades of War, Colombians Mull the Meaning of Peace
"Because Colombians have the capital, made this peace possible, and are already so close, it would be crazy not to [go through with it]."
