Journalist Lindsey Parietti, an Altamont native, went to Egypt to learn Arabic and stayed for eight years, covering the revolution and co-founding an online newspaper, Mada Masr. She’s now in England, working on a series for the BBC, and has just won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for her documentary, “Blood Island,” about chimpanzees poached in Africa for medical research by the New York Blood Center and then abandoned on an island without food or water. — Photo from Lindsey Parietti<br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Issue 52 Page Through — July 12, 2018

Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New York’s Capital Region. The Altamont Enterprise is the weekly newspaper of record for Albany County, New York.We’ve talked with a Buddhist who provided therapy for Gilda Radner and then helped set up Gilda’s Club after she died; with a Muslim woman who is trying to educate people about her religion as she feels increased hatred; with an African-American man who, as a teenager, helped ferry people north from a town in Mississippi haunted by lynchings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.