peloporberita.com/ | Jakarta – Ferrari, merambah bisnis fesyen dan kuliner. Perusahaan yang terkenal sebagai produsen mobil sport mewah asal Italia itu, menghadirkan koleksi fesyen pertamanya dan bisnis restoran kelas atas belum lama ini.
Dalam bisnis fesyen, koleksi Ferrari dibuat oleh desainer veteran Armani Rocco Iannone yang kini menjabat sebagai Direktur Kreatif Ferrari. Dalam debutnya di dunia fesyen, Ferrari menghadirkan catwalk pertama pada Minggu (13/6/2021). Kegiatan itu hadir di tengah jalur produksi pada markas Ferrari di Maranello Italia Utara.
Peragaan busana Ferrari. (Foto: Pelopor/Ist)
Dalam pertunjukan itu, dihadirkan koleksi yang berisi 52 unit unisex brand Ferrari yang dibuktikan lewat kombinasi warna bold seperti merah, kuning, hingga hitam. Selain itu, terdapat elemen karbon fiber untuk gabungkan elemen sport dan image dari Ferrari.
Koleksi perdana ini, terdiri dari denim set, trench coat, dan printed set dengan gambar mobil dan motif Formula 1. Selain itu, juga ada gaun dengan motif monogram logo Ferrari dan jaket racing oversized berwarna kontras.
Beberapa koleksi itu antara lain, jaket dan parka bomber berukuran besar, memadukan bahan nilon, sutra, dan kain daur ulang. Pakaian itu, dikenakan dengan rok longgar, celana pendek dan celana panjang di mana terselip juga logo kuda jingkrak Ferrari.
Kemudian di bisnis kuliner, Ferrari membuka kembali untuk umum restoran Cavallino yang legendaris di Maranello. Resto tersebut, berada di bawah arahan koki Italia Massimo Bottura, yang memiliki tiga bintang Michelin.
Restoran Cavallino, dibuka pertama kali untuk umum pada tahun 1950 dan telah direnovasi selama 18 bulan terakhir oleh arsitek dan desainer India Mahdavi. []
peloporberita.com/ | Jakarta – Upaya maskapai Thai Airways International untuk merestrukturisasi utang sebesar USD 12,9 miliar, disetujui pengadilan setempat. Restrukturisasi utang ini penting, untuk membalikkan nasib maskapai yang tahun lalu mencatat rekor kerugian sekitar USD 4,5 miliar.
Pengadilan Kepailitan Pusat di Bangkok dalam perintahnya, menyebut bahwa mereka menyetujui rencana rehabilitasi. Pengadilan juga tidak melakukan perubahan terhadap rencana yang telah disetujui sebelumnya oleh kreditur.
“Kami puas dengan keputusan itu,” tutur Somboon Sangrungjang dari firma hukum Kudun and Partners, yang mewakili 87 koperasi simpan pinjam seperti dikutip dari Reuters Selasa, 15 Juni 2021.
Sejatinya, Thai Airways International berada dalam kesulitan jauh sebelum pandemi virus corona menghentikan banyak penerbangan di seluruh dunia. Maskapai ini, diketahui telah membukukan kerugian hampir setiap tahun setelah 2012 silam.
Sebelumnya pada Maret 2021, Thai Airways mengungkapkan rencananya mengurangi ukuran armada menjadi 86 jet pada tahun 2025 dari 103 saat ini. Selain itu, Thai Airways juga telah memangkas biaya sebesar 30 miliar baht. Pemerintah Thailand sendiri, memegang 47,86% saham di maskapai tersebut. []
Tokoh revolusi Kuba, Che Ernesto Guevara, lahir pada 14 Juni 1928 di Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Dia adalah anak tertua dari lima bersaudara. Di usia muda, dia diperkenalkan dengan banyak perspektif politik kiri, sehingga meninggalkan pengaruh yang dalam bagi dirinya. Sejak muda, ia telah membaca karya-karya berbagai revolusioner dan pemimpin politik dunia, seperti Karl Marx, William Faulkner, Emilio Salgari, dan Albert Camus.
Che Guevara merupakan aktivis politik legendaris, yang mengabdikan hidupnya untuk meruntuhkan imperialisme dan mendirikan sosialisme. Perlawanan tanpa henti menjadikannya simbol pemberontakan dan revolusi. Sepanjang hidupnya, Guevara bekerja di berbagai bidang, mulai dari dokter, penulis, pemimpin gerilya, diplomat, dan ahli teori militer.
Guevara memulai petualangannya menjelajahi dunia dengan menyusuri Amerika Latin menggunakan sepeda motornya pada tahun 1950. Selama di perjalanan, dia dibuat bingung oleh eksploitasi yang kejam terhadap orang miskin.
Tapi, di saat yang sama, dia juga kagum pada keramahan yang masih ditunjukkan oleh orang-orang yang “putus asa” dalam kemiskinan, sehingga menumbuhkan tekad pembebasannya. Ia melihat Amerika Latin sebagai persatuan Hispanik Amerika, dengan kesamaan entitas kebudayaan dan ekonomi, yang membutuhkan strategi pembebasan untuk mengakhiri penderitaan.
Setelah menyelesaikan studi pada Juni 1953, Guevara segera melanjutkan petualangannya dan pergi ke Guatemala. Di sana, ia bertemu Jacobo Arbenz yang baru terpilih sebagai presiden secara demokratis dua tahun sebelumnya. Guevara melihat Arbenz melakukan revolusi dengan menggagas reformasi agraria, dan memutus sistem latifundia yang menekankan kepemilikan tunggal lahan tanah yang luas.
United Fruit Company, perusahaan buah milik Amerika di Guatemala, terkena dampak kebijakan Presiden Arbenz. Hingga akhirnya, kudeta atas Arbenz terjadi pada 1954 oleh sayap kanan Armas, dengan dukungan CIA.
Kejadian ini menjadi titik balik bagaimana Guevara melihat Amerika tidak menyukai model pemerintahan yang berhaluan kiri dan progresif, yang sedang berjuang memperbaiki ketimpangan sosial ekonomi di Amerika Latin. Sejak itu, ia melihat sosialisme harus diwujudkan lewat revolusi bersenjata, untuk mengusir para imperialis.
Lalu Guevara meninggalkan Guatemala, dan bertolak ke Meksiko. Di sana, ia bertemu Fidel dan Raul Castro, kakak beradik tahanan politik yang sedang mempersiapkan penggulingan diktator Fulgencio Batista di Kuba. Guevara kemudian bergabung dalam Gerakan 26 Juli, yang memulai serangan ke Kuba melawan tentara Batista. Memulai kerja revolusionernya dengan menjadi dokter medis bagi para gerilyawan, Guevara akhirnya ikut mengangkat senjata.
Tembok bergambar Che Guevara. (Foto: Pelopor/freeimages.com)
Pada 1959, Che Guevara bersama duo Castro, Raul dan Fidel, berhasil memenangkan Revolusi Kuba, dengan menumbangkan rezim Batista. Atas keberhasilan itu, Che diangkat menjadi menteri untuk menjalankan roda-roda hasil revolusinya, dan Fidel Castro ditunjuk sebagai presiden. Semasa itu, ia berkeliling dunia sebagai duta Kuba mengunjungi negara-negara dunia ketiga, termasuk ke Indonesia menemui Soekarno.
Guevara kemudian meletakkan segala jabatannya di Kuba pada 1965, untuk masuk ke negara-negara berkembang dan menyebarkan revolusi. Salah satunya adalah Kongo, ia melatih pasukan pemberontak agar bisa berperang gerilya, tapi mengalami kegagalan karena terpecahnya perjuangan dan faktor-faktor lain.
Karena telah berpamitan dengan Kuba, ia enggan kembali dan akhirnya memilih tinggal di Praha selama enam bulan. Namun, pada 1966, Guevara diam-diam kembali lagi ke Kuba, dan melanjutkan perjalanan ke Bolivia, memimpin pasukan memberontak terhadap pemerintahan René Barrientos Ortuno.
National Security Archive melaporkan, Félix Rodríguez, seorang eksil Kuba dari rezim Batista, menjadi bagian dari divisi kegiatan khusus CIA, yang punya andil dalam penangkapan Che Guevara.
Pada 8 Oktober 1967, pasukan Bolivia menyerbu dengan kekuatan Seribu 800 tentara. Pertempuran itu membuat Guevara terluka dan menjadi tawanan. Rodríguez sebenarnya tidak menginginkan Guevara mati, karena perintah CIA adalah menangkapnya hidup-hidup. Namun perintah eksekusi mati datang dari Presiden Bolivia, agar Guevara tidak melarikan diri dari penjara, dan mencegah publik Bolivia menjadi simpatisan Guevara jika ia menjalani serangkaian sidang di pengadilan terbuka.
Seorang sersan tentara Bolivia, Mario Teran, secara pribadi meminta agar dirinya yang menembak Guevara, karena ketiga rekannya tewas dalam baku tembak dengan gerilyawan Guevara. Namun Rodríguez berpesan untuk tidak menembaknya di kepala, agar terlihat Guevara tewas dalam sebuah pertempuran. Pada 9 Oktober 1967, Che Guevara dieksekusi mati di sebuah desa di Bolivia. []
peloporberita.com/ | Jakarta – Ba Chuan atau biasa disebut Peh Cun adalah salah satu tradisi etnis Tionghoa, yang jatuh pada tanggal 5 bulan 5 kalender Lunar. Tradisi ini juga biasa disebut dengan hari Bacang atau Bakcang, yang biasanya dirayakan dengan festival makan bakcang dan balap perahu naga. Tahun ini, hari Bakcang jatuh pada tanggal 14 Juni 2021.
Tidak hanya etnis Tionghoa yang merayakan hari bacang, Google pun turut memeriahkannya. Coba Anda ketik ‘peh cun’ di kolom pencarian Google, lalu akan muncul gambar pernak-pernik bacang dan naga dengan warna yang cerah dan meriah.
Ilustrasi Bacang. (Foto:Pelopor/Bumbu Ibunda)
Di belahan dunia bagian barat, festival hari bacang juga dikenal sebagai Festival Perahu Naga atau Festival Dumpling. Ada juga yang menyebut Double Kelima Festival karena diadakan pada hari 5 dan bulan 5 kalender lunar. Selain itu, hari Bacang juga dikenal dengan sebutan Festival Extreme Yang, karena berdasarkan metafisika China, hari Bacang adalah hari ketika energi yang keluar adalah energi terkuat. Lantas, bagaimana sejarah hari Bacang? Ada beberapa kisah di balik hari Bacang.
Hari Bacang dilatarbelakangi dengan sejarah tokoh bernama Qu Yuan, sarjana patriotik dan menteri di negara Chu, yang pandai bekerjasama secara diplomatik dengan kerajaan lain demi melawan agresi negara Qin. Hal ini membuat dirinya disukai oleh banyak kalangan.
Suatu hari, ia difitnah telah melakukan korupsi dan dibuang ke pengasingan pada tahun 278 SM. Saat diasingkan, ia mendengar bahwa pasukan Qin menyerbu Ying, ibukota negara Chu. Ia kemudian menulis puisi untuk Ying, lalu menenggelamkan diri di Sungai Miluo.
Ritual bunuh diri itu dilakukan untuk memprotes korupsi yang menyebabkan jatuhnya negara Chu. Banyak penduduk desa yang pergi mencari tubuhnya di sungai menggunakan perahu, sambil menggebuh drum untuk menakuti ikan dan roh jahat agar tubuh Qu Yuan tidak diganggu.
Mereka juga melempar bungkus beras ke dalam sungai, sebagai persembahan untuk roh Qu Yuan. Inilah awal mula munculnya tradisi makan kue beras dan balap perahu naga muncul. Bacang melambangkan nasi atau beras bungkus yang dilempar ke sungai. Bacang dibungkus dengan daun membentuk runcing seperti tanduk sapi, di mana keempat sisinya melambangkan arti dan harapan baik.
Kisah lainnya adalah Qu Yuan atau Kut Goan, nama yang dikenal oleh peranakan keturunan Hokkian di Indonesia, adalah penasihat kaisar kerajaan Chu. Ia menasihati raja Chu agar bergabung dengan 5 kerajaan lain untuk menghadapi kerajaan Qin. Namun, raja tidak menuruti nasihat Qu Yuan, bahkan menyingkirkan penasihatnya itu.
Selama pengasingannya, Qu Yuan sangat sedih hingga berakhir bunuh diri di sungai Miluo pada bulan 5 tanggal 5. Kemudian, penduduk yang bersimpati kepada Qu Yuan beramai-ramai mencari jenazahnya di sungai dengan menggunakan banyak perahu, tetapi tidak menemukannya.
Karena khawatir jasad Qu Yuan dimakan ikan, udang, dan hewan lainnya, maka mereka memberi makan hewan air tersebut dengan bacang. Versi cerita lain mengatakan bahwa bacang yang dibungkus dengan daun bambu yang berbulu halus dan memiliki sudut-sudut lancip untuk mencegah hewan air memakan bacang yang akan diberikan kepada Qu Yuan. []
Jakarta – Kisah Hantu La Sayona, merupakan urban legend asal Venezuela. La Sayonasering dijuluki sebagai hantu pembantai para pria hidung belang lantaran hantu wanita ini, dikisahkan muncul hanya untuk menggoda pria yang memiliki hubungan cinta di luar pernikahan mereka lalu menghabisinya.
Nama “Sayona” sendiri diambil dari kain yang dipakai sang hantu. Modelnya seperti gaun putih panjang mirip dengan pakaian abad pertengahan.
Urban legend La Sayona, dimulai pada abad ke-19 dari sebuah desa yang dihuni oleh seorang wanita petani muda paling cantik di desa tersebut bernama Casilda seperti dikutip peloporberita.com/ dari berbagai sumber. Kecantikan Casilda, menjadi dambaan setiap lelaki yang ada di wilayah tersebut saat itu.
Hantu La Sayona, sering diceritakan menyamar sebagai wanita, lalu merayu pria-pria tukang selingkuh hingga mereka tergoda.
Sebagai seorang wanita cantik, hidup Casilda pun bisa dikatakan bahagia. Ia memiliki suami yang hebat dan seorang bayi laki-laki. Casilda biasa mandi dan berenang di sungai tepatnya di sebuah hutan dekat tempat tinggalnya tanpa mengenakan sehelai benang pun.
Suatu hari, ada seorang warga desa yang diam-diam suka kepada Casilda mengikutinya ke hutan tempat dia biasa mandi dan melihatnya berenang sambil telanjang. Sejak saat itu, pria tersebut suka mengintip Casilda yang sedang mandi. Saat terpergok, lelaki itu malah mengelak dan memberikan informasi palsu kepada Casilda bahwa suaminya telah berselingkuh dengan ibu kandungnya sendiri.
Mendengar kabar tersebut, Casilda kembali kerumah dan mendapati suaminya sedang tidur bersama anaknya. Tetapi, karena terbakar api amarah, Casilda langsung membakar rumahnya. Menyadari ada kebakaran, penduduk desa beramai-ramai menghampiri rumah tersebut dan berusaha memadamkan api diiringi suara jeritan suami dan anak Casilda yang masih berada didalam rumah.
Ilustrasi hantu La Sayona. (Foto:Sintetizador)
Setelah membakar anak dan suaminya hidup-hidup, Casilda mendatangi rumah ibunya. Setibanya di sana, dia mendapati ibunya sedang berada di teras rumah dan Casilda langsung menyerang Ibunya dengan parang. Ia, juga menusuk perut perempuan yang melahirkannya itu dengan pisau hingga tewas.
Sebelum kematiannya, ibu Casilda mengutuknya dengan mengatakan bahwa setelah ajalnya tiba, dia harus membalaskan dendam semua wanita dengan membunuh suami mereka yang tidak setia. Kutukan sang Ibu, lantas membuat Casilda bergentayangan setelah kematiannya untuk membunuh para pria hidung belang yang suka berselingkuh dan dijuluki La Sayona alias Sang Algojo dari Venezuela.
Hantu La Sayona, sering diceritakan menyamar sebagai wanita, lalu merayu pria-pria tukang selingkuh hingga mereka tergoda.Setelah pria hidung belang itu tergoda, La Sayona lantas berubah menjadi wujud aslinya, lalu seketika mencabik–cabik dan membunuh pria hidung belang itu. Kabarnya, La Sayona telah memutilasi banyak pria di Venezuela.
Dalam kisah lain versi tersebut diceritakan bahwa La Sayona kerap muncul di hadapan para pria yang bekerja di hutan. Dia memanipulasi korbannya dengan menampilkan diri sebagai wanita cantik, atau orang yang dicintai. La Sayona lalu memikatnya kemudian membawanya ke dalam hutan untuk bisa menghabisi pria tersebut dan setelah itu meninggalkan tubuh mereka untuk ditemukan oleh orang lain. ***
Jakarta – Pria bernama lengkap Donald John Trump ini lahir pada 14 Juni 1946 di New York, Amerika Serikat. Trump adalah anak keempat dari lima bersaudara. Ia bersekolah di Akademi Militer New York dari tahun 1959-1964.
Kemudian dia berkuliah di Universitas Fordham di Bronx, New York dari 1964-1966; dilanjutkan pada Wharton School of Finance and Commerce sampai tahun 1968, dan University of Pennsylvania, tempat dia lulus dengan gelar sarjana ekonomi.
Pada 1968, selama Perang Vietnam, Trump mendapatkan diagnosis taji tulang, yang membuatnya memenuhi syarat untuk pembebasan medis dari wajib militer, setelah sebelumnya menerima empat rancangan penundaan untuk pendidikan.
Setelah lulus, Trump mulai bekerja untuk bisnis ayahnya, membantu mengelola kepemilikannya atas perumahan sewaan, yang dikelola antara 10.000-22.000 unit. Pada 1974, dia menjadi presiden pada konglomerasi korporasi dan kemitraan yang dimiliki keluarga Trump, yang kemudian dia beri nama Trump Organization.
Mantan Presiden Amerika Serikat Donald Trump. (Foto:Pelopor/Wikipedia)
Selama 1960-an dan awal 1970-an, Trump mengembangkan perumahan di New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio, Norfolk, dan Virginia, sekaligus menjadi target dari beberapa kasus diskriminasi rasial terhadap orang Afro-Amerika dan kelompok minoritas lainnya.
Pada 1973, Donald Trump dan adiknya, Fred, bersama dengan perusahaan mereka, digugat oleh Departemen Kehakiman Amerika, karena diduga melanggar Undang Undang Perumahan yang Adil, dalam pengoperasian 39 gedung apartemen di New York City.
Awalnya, pihak Trump memperjuangkan keadilan pada Departemen Kehakiman dengan USD 100 juta, karena menuduh hal itu dapat membahayakan reputasi mereka. Gugatan tersebut diselesaikan dua tahun kemudian, di bawah perjanjian, yang tidak mengharuskan Trump mengakui kesalahannya.
Pada akhir 1970-an dan 1980-an, Donald Trump memperluas bisnis ayahnya dengan berinvestasi di sejumlah hotel mewah dan properti perumahan, serta mengalihkan fokus geografisnya ke Manhattan, dan kemudian ke Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Dalam perluasan bisnis itu, dia sangat bergantung pada pinjaman, hibah, dan bantuan keuangan lain dari ayahnya, dan juga pada koneksi politik ayahnya di New York City.
Sejak 1980-an, Trump mematenkan namanya ke sejumlah usaha ritel, seperti pakaian, makanan, dan furniture, termasuk ke Universitas Trump, yang menawarkan seminar dalam pendidikan real estate dari 2005-2010.
Pada 2017, Donald Trump resmi menjadi Presiden Amerika Serikat yang ke-45. Kampanye Trump untuk posisi kepresidenan banyak diguncang kontroversi. Termasuk munculnya rekaman pada 2005, yang memuat pernyataan Trump yang cabul terhadap perempuan, juga termasuk opini dari salah satu anggota partainya sendiri, yang menganggapnya tidak cocok menjadi presiden.
Donald Trump adalah presiden Amerika pertama yang tidak pernah memegang jabatan terpilih atau bertugas di militer. Pada 2019, Trump menjadi presiden ketiga dalam sejarah amerika, setelah Andrew Johnson dan Bill Clinton, yang tadinya akan dimakzulkan oleh DPR Amerika.
Trump juga presiden pertama amerika yang dimakzulkan selama masa jabatan pertamanya, karena dituduh menyalahgunakan kekuasaan, dan menghalangi penyelidikan kongres. Penyalahgunaan ini terkait dengan permintaan Trump terhadap pemerintah Ukraina, untuk menyelidiki calon pesaingnya Joe Biden dalam Pilpres Amerika pada 2020. []
Last Wednesday, several hundred people gathered on the third floor of Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library for the opening of “Working in America,” a multimedia exhibition exploring how Americans find meaning in work and define themselves through their jobs. Twenty-four men and women were profiled for the exhibit, including a waitress, a police officer, a custodian, an escort, and a farmer.
“This is a tribute to the legacy of Studs”
A master of oral history, Terkel published a number of as-told-to books, including, in 1974, “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do,” the book that inspired the new exhibit. “Working” featured interviews with more than a hundred workers from all walks of life. The book, Terkel writes in the introduction, is about the search “for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
Welder binding metal
It became a best-seller—and, a few years later, a musical—thanks, in large part, to the intimacy and depth Terkel elicited from people who are not usually the subject of books.
One of those people, Gary Bryner, is in the new exhibit, too. “I picked Studs up at the Youngstown airport,” Bryner told me, recounting the time Terkel spent with him for the book. “He didn’t even have a hotel reservation. He said he just wanted to stay in a mom-and-pop place and all he needed was a phone.” This was 1972, and Bryner was president of U.A.W. Local 1112 at the Lordstown, Ohio, General Motors plant, where a twenty-two-day strike had captured national attention.
“I’d been interviewed by every major magazine and newspaper. I was on ‘60 Minutes.’ But Studs was different”
Terkel followed Bryner, who’s now in his seventies, for two days. “He had a glint in his eye. He wanted to know how this worked, how that worked. He couldn’t stop.
Saks sought a wide variety of subjects—some of them she knew of personally, and others she found through research. Roque Sanchez, a twenty-one-year-old custodian featured in the new exhibit, said he had never heard of Terkel before Saks contacted him. A formerly undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Sanchez works at a downtown Chicago office building.
Woman building a broomstick
“It’s definitely not the worst job,” he said. “But I like working. It’s essential to make something with my life.” Ava St. Claire, who is in her late twenties, didn’t know Terkel’s work before, either. St. Claire works as an escort in Orlando. “I love my job. It’s the best I’ve ever had,” she said. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Saks is a lifelong Chicagoan and the president and artistic director of Project&, a Chicago-based arts organization. “I really wanted to do something on economic inequality,” she explained, as she introduced a panel discussion earlier that night, in the library’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium. “It’s one of the greatest conflicts of our time.” Once she had decided to focus on the subject, she instinctively turned to Terkel. “My dad and Studs were friends,” she told me.
“As a kid, I’d sit in the back seat as they drove around the city. My dad smoking his pipe and Studs his cigar. They were like a pair from Jewish central casting”
Saks’s intention with “Working in America” is not to mimic Terkel’s masterpiece, she said, but to continue the conversations he started. “Everyone has a relationship with work,” she added. “Even those who don’t have a job.”
The exhibit, which will run until January 31st, is free and open to the public, and it includes two additional components: a weeklong radio series that kicks off on September 25th, on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” and a Web site where people can upload photos and share their own stories.
Chef preparing a dish
Saks hopes that by the end of January she’ll have raised enough money from private foundations and individual donors to take “Working in America” to libraries throughout the country. Bryner, meanwhile, told me that he was pleased by how things had turned out, and encouraged by the attention. “I thought it was interesting people still cared,” he said.
Last Wednesday, several hundred people gathered on the third floor of Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library for the opening of “Working in America,” a multimedia exhibition exploring how Americans find meaning in work and define themselves through their jobs. Twenty-four men and women were profiled for the exhibit, including a waitress, a police officer, a custodian, an escort, and a farmer.
“This is a tribute to the legacy of Studs”
A master of oral history, Terkel published a number of as-told-to books, including, in 1974, “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do,” the book that inspired the new exhibit. “Working” featured interviews with more than a hundred workers from all walks of life. The book, Terkel writes in the introduction, is about the search “for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
Welder binding metal
It became a best-seller—and, a few years later, a musical—thanks, in large part, to the intimacy and depth Terkel elicited from people who are not usually the subject of books.
One of those people, Gary Bryner, is in the new exhibit, too. “I picked Studs up at the Youngstown airport,” Bryner told me, recounting the time Terkel spent with him for the book. “He didn’t even have a hotel reservation. He said he just wanted to stay in a mom-and-pop place and all he needed was a phone.” This was 1972, and Bryner was president of U.A.W. Local 1112 at the Lordstown, Ohio, General Motors plant, where a twenty-two-day strike had captured national attention.
“I’d been interviewed by every major magazine and newspaper. I was on ‘60 Minutes.’ But Studs was different”
Terkel followed Bryner, who’s now in his seventies, for two days. “He had a glint in his eye. He wanted to know how this worked, how that worked. He couldn’t stop.
Saks sought a wide variety of subjects—some of them she knew of personally, and others she found through research. Roque Sanchez, a twenty-one-year-old custodian featured in the new exhibit, said he had never heard of Terkel before Saks contacted him. A formerly undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Sanchez works at a downtown Chicago office building.
Woman building a broomstick
“It’s definitely not the worst job,” he said. “But I like working. It’s essential to make something with my life.” Ava St. Claire, who is in her late twenties, didn’t know Terkel’s work before, either. St. Claire works as an escort in Orlando. “I love my job. It’s the best I’ve ever had,” she said. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Saks is a lifelong Chicagoan and the president and artistic director of Project&, a Chicago-based arts organization. “I really wanted to do something on economic inequality,” she explained, as she introduced a panel discussion earlier that night, in the library’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium. “It’s one of the greatest conflicts of our time.” Once she had decided to focus on the subject, she instinctively turned to Terkel. “My dad and Studs were friends,” she told me.
“As a kid, I’d sit in the back seat as they drove around the city. My dad smoking his pipe and Studs his cigar. They were like a pair from Jewish central casting”
Saks’s intention with “Working in America” is not to mimic Terkel’s masterpiece, she said, but to continue the conversations he started. “Everyone has a relationship with work,” she added. “Even those who don’t have a job.”
The exhibit, which will run until January 31st, is free and open to the public, and it includes two additional components: a weeklong radio series that kicks off on September 25th, on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” and a Web site where people can upload photos and share their own stories.
Chef preparing a dish
Saks hopes that by the end of January she’ll have raised enough money from private foundations and individual donors to take “Working in America” to libraries throughout the country. Bryner, meanwhile, told me that he was pleased by how things had turned out, and encouraged by the attention. “I thought it was interesting people still cared,” he said.
Last Wednesday, several hundred people gathered on the third floor of Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library for the opening of “Working in America,” a multimedia exhibition exploring how Americans find meaning in work and define themselves through their jobs. Twenty-four men and women were profiled for the exhibit, including a waitress, a police officer, a custodian, an escort, and a farmer.
“This is a tribute to the legacy of Studs”
A master of oral history, Terkel published a number of as-told-to books, including, in 1974, “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do,” the book that inspired the new exhibit. “Working” featured interviews with more than a hundred workers from all walks of life. The book, Terkel writes in the introduction, is about the search “for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
Welder binding metal
It became a best-seller—and, a few years later, a musical—thanks, in large part, to the intimacy and depth Terkel elicited from people who are not usually the subject of books.
One of those people, Gary Bryner, is in the new exhibit, too. “I picked Studs up at the Youngstown airport,” Bryner told me, recounting the time Terkel spent with him for the book. “He didn’t even have a hotel reservation. He said he just wanted to stay in a mom-and-pop place and all he needed was a phone.” This was 1972, and Bryner was president of U.A.W. Local 1112 at the Lordstown, Ohio, General Motors plant, where a twenty-two-day strike had captured national attention.
“I’d been interviewed by every major magazine and newspaper. I was on ‘60 Minutes.’ But Studs was different”
Terkel followed Bryner, who’s now in his seventies, for two days. “He had a glint in his eye. He wanted to know how this worked, how that worked. He couldn’t stop.
Saks sought a wide variety of subjects—some of them she knew of personally, and others she found through research. Roque Sanchez, a twenty-one-year-old custodian featured in the new exhibit, said he had never heard of Terkel before Saks contacted him. A formerly undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Sanchez works at a downtown Chicago office building.
Woman building a broomstick
“It’s definitely not the worst job,” he said. “But I like working. It’s essential to make something with my life.” Ava St. Claire, who is in her late twenties, didn’t know Terkel’s work before, either. St. Claire works as an escort in Orlando. “I love my job. It’s the best I’ve ever had,” she said. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Saks is a lifelong Chicagoan and the president and artistic director of Project&, a Chicago-based arts organization. “I really wanted to do something on economic inequality,” she explained, as she introduced a panel discussion earlier that night, in the library’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium. “It’s one of the greatest conflicts of our time.” Once she had decided to focus on the subject, she instinctively turned to Terkel. “My dad and Studs were friends,” she told me.
“As a kid, I’d sit in the back seat as they drove around the city. My dad smoking his pipe and Studs his cigar. They were like a pair from Jewish central casting”
Saks’s intention with “Working in America” is not to mimic Terkel’s masterpiece, she said, but to continue the conversations he started. “Everyone has a relationship with work,” she added. “Even those who don’t have a job.”
The exhibit, which will run until January 31st, is free and open to the public, and it includes two additional components: a weeklong radio series that kicks off on September 25th, on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” and a Web site where people can upload photos and share their own stories.
Chef preparing a dish
Saks hopes that by the end of January she’ll have raised enough money from private foundations and individual donors to take “Working in America” to libraries throughout the country. Bryner, meanwhile, told me that he was pleased by how things had turned out, and encouraged by the attention. “I thought it was interesting people still cared,” he said.
Last Wednesday, several hundred people gathered on the third floor of Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library for the opening of “Working in America,” a multimedia exhibition exploring how Americans find meaning in work and define themselves through their jobs. Twenty-four men and women were profiled for the exhibit, including a waitress, a police officer, a custodian, an escort, and a farmer.
“This is a tribute to the legacy of Studs”
A master of oral history, Terkel published a number of as-told-to books, including, in 1974, “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do,” the book that inspired the new exhibit. “Working” featured interviews with more than a hundred workers from all walks of life. The book, Terkel writes in the introduction, is about the search “for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
Welder binding metal
It became a best-seller—and, a few years later, a musical—thanks, in large part, to the intimacy and depth Terkel elicited from people who are not usually the subject of books.
One of those people, Gary Bryner, is in the new exhibit, too. “I picked Studs up at the Youngstown airport,” Bryner told me, recounting the time Terkel spent with him for the book. “He didn’t even have a hotel reservation. He said he just wanted to stay in a mom-and-pop place and all he needed was a phone.” This was 1972, and Bryner was president of U.A.W. Local 1112 at the Lordstown, Ohio, General Motors plant, where a twenty-two-day strike had captured national attention.
“I’d been interviewed by every major magazine and newspaper. I was on ‘60 Minutes.’ But Studs was different”
Terkel followed Bryner, who’s now in his seventies, for two days. “He had a glint in his eye. He wanted to know how this worked, how that worked. He couldn’t stop.
Saks sought a wide variety of subjects—some of them she knew of personally, and others she found through research. Roque Sanchez, a twenty-one-year-old custodian featured in the new exhibit, said he had never heard of Terkel before Saks contacted him. A formerly undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Sanchez works at a downtown Chicago office building.
Woman building a broomstick
“It’s definitely not the worst job,” he said. “But I like working. It’s essential to make something with my life.” Ava St. Claire, who is in her late twenties, didn’t know Terkel’s work before, either. St. Claire works as an escort in Orlando. “I love my job. It’s the best I’ve ever had,” she said. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Saks is a lifelong Chicagoan and the president and artistic director of Project&, a Chicago-based arts organization. “I really wanted to do something on economic inequality,” she explained, as she introduced a panel discussion earlier that night, in the library’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium. “It’s one of the greatest conflicts of our time.” Once she had decided to focus on the subject, she instinctively turned to Terkel. “My dad and Studs were friends,” she told me.
“As a kid, I’d sit in the back seat as they drove around the city. My dad smoking his pipe and Studs his cigar. They were like a pair from Jewish central casting”
Saks’s intention with “Working in America” is not to mimic Terkel’s masterpiece, she said, but to continue the conversations he started. “Everyone has a relationship with work,” she added. “Even those who don’t have a job.”
The exhibit, which will run until January 31st, is free and open to the public, and it includes two additional components: a weeklong radio series that kicks off on September 25th, on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” and a Web site where people can upload photos and share their own stories.
Chef preparing a dish
Saks hopes that by the end of January she’ll have raised enough money from private foundations and individual donors to take “Working in America” to libraries throughout the country. Bryner, meanwhile, told me that he was pleased by how things had turned out, and encouraged by the attention. “I thought it was interesting people still cared,” he said.
