Acorn Milk Anyone?

Acorn Milk from Brian Barnes on Vimeo.

So gonna give you a couple videos we produced for the website in case you're interested in trying some local wild food recipes. This one shows you how easy it is to make acorn milk. And it's really good.

Growing Roots

This is the documentary we produced on Turtle Lake Refuge for our final project. Had alot of fun with this project and learned alot. Hope this film can inspire a person or two to check it out and try some local raw food lunch!

A Taste of What is to Come?

I think there's a good chance Bush and Cheney are going to get hit with more than a shoe after they leave office. Of course they'll probably have private security out the wazzoo for the rest of their lives too.

Hopefully we can really take this country in a new direction and start to reverse some of the intense animosity we have provoked around the world.

The Power of YouTube

So if you search for Argentina Dirty War you can find hundreds of pertinent videos. Protests are still going on as this home video shows. The children of the disappeared who were kidnapped by their parent's murderers are in their 20s today. Birth certificates were forged, and many do not know that their family is a fraud. But the grandmothers have not given up. 85 of the "missing generation" have been found, and at least 500 cases are known about and being actively searched for today.

People still going missing - Argentinians skeptical

So this guy went missing after his testimony helped bring down old war criminals. It seems many feel the governments talk of no more impunity is just rhetoric and believe the old systems and structures and corruption is still in place.

No more impunity?

Even after the junta was overthrown, the general and other military leaders were protected by the new "democratic" government, which obviously infuriated the people of Argentina. Just recently, they have said they will no longer provide impunity to these criminals, as it is not in the interest of developing a democracy. The first 3 or 4 minutes of this interview talk about the change.

Garaje Olimpo

Another Argentinian film about the dirty war of 1976-1983. I did a presentation on the power of film as a means of protest and remembrance. That's where I got all these clips.

This movie was directed by a guy who was actually tortured by the regime. You can see at least several large portions of it online.

The sort of anti-establishing shot of the muddy water in the beginning is important. The film focuses on two stories - one of a girl taken to a concentration camp who tries to use her sexuality and relationship with one of the torturers to save her life. The other story is based on the true story of the resistance and a girl who placed a bomb under the bed of a cop who was her friend's dad. The girl in the camp suffers the same fate as everyone else and is dumped out of a plane at several thousand feet into the muddy water at the same time as the bomb goes off in the film.