We're alive. We're alive. What's up, y'all? Probably going to have to talk louder than that. So I hope you can hear me. If not, my bad. We are doing this video on the phone because the laptop's still making that funky noise, and I don't want to irritate anyone's precious eardrums. So I'm going to be reading off of the iPad and we're filming off of the phone. So on the plus side, the color is going to be true, but on the downside, you may not be able to hear us as well, and there's no stripper music and there's no microphone. So please message us and let us know if you can't hear at some point. Hey, y'all, hey, y'all, hey, y'all, hey, y'all, hey, y'all. So I hope everyone's having an amazing and normal. It's Memorial Day, isn't it? Tomorrow. Right, but a lot of people are celebrating it to dirt. Hey, y'all, hey, y'all, hey, y'all, hey, y'all. So we decided to make masonite coasters if you guys already don't know. They look like this. Great then. Hi, Tina. I would suggest just using a little less than what you'd normally use for a coaster just because cleaning up the back of these. Not going to be as easy. Probably, yeah. And then we suggest that when you do them, lay them flat on wax paper or plastic or whatever that resin doesn't stick to.  And it's probably a little easier to clean that up than the bottom drip because you will definitely tear this bottom up. So we suggest that you put them flat. It'll probably be easier. And this edge is such a hard edge that the resin should just stop unless you put way too much resin on it. So we have a question of if you can put the orange tape on the back of it and act as a masking. I don't see why not. Do we have any we could test? Is it on your? It should be orange tape, right? And I want to use this new color. We have a couple new colors from Just Resin. A couple of them they sent. We bought. But this pistachio looks amazing. And I'm not a fan of gray, but they made this slate gray that looks phenomenal. I would like to try to use this today. This ice green looks amazing. This mango and Maya blue. I love this Maya blue. I don't know what this will go with. The gray probably. I wanted to put that hot pink with it. And I thought about, I made this yesterday at Makers. I hope you guys can see this. I edged it and cut it out. And I thought, what if I just resin the back of it so that you see it on the front? That'd be something kind of fun, something different. So you definitely have to do a couple different swipes. So I wonder if you put the color down, then the black over it, would it sell reverse? If you put the color down, like when you're supposed to put the black or the white first, then you swipe over that. What if you put the color, then the black, and you swipe? So then when it sets, it'll sell this way because it's see-through. Because you're going to paint it this way, and the dispersion is about gravity. And while you are going to be ending up viewing it this way, it's not going to float through because it's setting this way. So you know what I mean? It would have been an awesome thing if it did, though. I know. We'll see. Hey, y'all. Make a skin to attach if you want the cells to show. Also, I sprayed this coaster with mirror spray paint, but it's still kind of like all the way see-through. That I'm just looking at my own reflection as soon as you see through. Now it's see-through. I need to put another coat. Hey, Lisa. I think this will be really neat once I get enough coats on to make a difference. I think I'm going to use these three with the gray. What? So you're going to use Maya, slate, pistachio, and hyacinth? No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to put those three colors together with white. I like it. We need computer desk today for a poor tomorrow. That sounds exciting. So bright. That's what I was just thinking. It's crazy. Also, y'all, I have to show you yesterday's. There's something in there. That's partying. I made too much, and so I poured that out a little bit. This piece that I did the other day and resin yesterday did fade slightly, but the dots are still there. It's just not as vibrant. Uh-uh, Bowie. Don't shoot me on that. Drop it. So, yeah, Jeff, don't forget your bracelets. We're going on coasters that really, it's not that big of a deal, because I'm not getting too crazy. Hi, Doyle and Austin, Phillip West. Bowie says hi. Hi, Amber. I'm glad you made it back, Amber. Good to see you. Oh, wow, Margaret, that's a lot of coasters. Bowie, Bowie is just about as big as him now. This coat is just trying to be baby skull in there, isn't it? I just need to give you guys something to chew on other than each other. Yeah, we have a Facebook group, ATD's Poor People. All you got to do is just answer the question to join. We've got about 4,200 followers. It's true, it's true. We're almost at 28,000 subscribers for YouTube. It's true. Please continue to share and like and share and like. Trying to get to that 100,000 one day. So I'm going to take off the back of one of these with this super tape. Y'all, see how easy that tears? I can never tear tape. And it tears straight. Which one should I do the back of, it doesn't matter. I'll cut it. Also, y'all, I'm going to try something new and do another form of geode that I'm super pumped about. After I get my fiberglass cloth in. Enough. First time I've ever made this amount. I've seen people use pumps on large bottles as well. This is such an amazing color. Which one? You can also use an exacto blade to do this, but I don't have one handy and I do have scissors handy, so I'm going to scissor it. I want to get Boy one of those like interactive toys where it's like a puzzle and you just figure it out to get a treat because Boy can eat. Glad, Ruth, I'm glad you like this tape. They're definitely really awesome. And if you're interested in this Walder Strong tape, you can just search it on Amazon or you can just click down in the description box below this video and there will be a link to everything that we use on the channel that we don't carry in our own store on our Amazon affiliate. It doesn't cost you anything extra to order through our link, but it does give us a little kickback that we can then put back into the channel. Disclaimer check. Hey Angie, love your shirt, Jeff. Oh, thank you. It's pre-edited. Thanks, Jen. Do you guys have big plans for today? Thank you for that info, Tiffany. We finally got this and that back in stock, the white and black, so you can find those on our website at your convenience.  That sounds like awesome plans, to be quite honest. Almost every one of our friends are having some kind of cool party today and we were like, we love them all, but let's just, let's go to makers and make things. No, I think I'd rather go make money than spend money. I'm sorry, Lisa. Moose fine, he is not coughing as much. His vet prescribed him like the puppy equivalent of like codeine cough syrup, I think. It says 15% off all on the front of the bottle in big letters. So he said, I also got him some CDD oil. I haven't given it to him yet. I wanna see if this prescription stuff works first, but I'm gonna call back. It is zero THC and it comes from like a vet in Colorado, I think that's where it is. But I gave Kujo's vet all the information about this stuff to make sure that it's good. So Tiffany, we belong to Dallas Makerspace. It is a 40,000 square foot facility for creators and makers. It's just called Dallas Makerspace. Hey, Megan. So what's going on, Moosey? I need colors, Megan. Please use the mango. I don't think you made enough resin for mango. It's true, Clara. Oh, you're being too quiet. Are you getting into shit? Many stuff. Once he looked like a little bear, and now he looks like a full-on lion. So today, Jeff is testing our new Masonite coasters as well as some brand new colors from just present. That would be awesome, Tiffany. Where did you say you were? Megan, that sounds horrible. We do still do classes. Our next one is June 1st, and I think we still have a couple of seats in it if you're available. I think it. My gray is gone. Like nothing. I'm gonna change everybody's view. Sorry about that extreme close-up, y'all. Louisville can tell you that's not too far. That's Austin Doris. Jen says she needs that gray. The gray I don't have in stock yet, but will. It's gray because it looks like a pretty silver, but without the metallic or the sparkle that's in silver. So it literally is a nice slate gray. I don't even like working with gray, but I feel like I would probably use this color. Now it's supposed to make gray look pretty. No, I don't want to use it. Do you and Jeff have any plans for today? So they want you to hold that up so they can see it. We are gonna go to Makerspace and get some stuff made for you guys. I'm running low on these masonite coasters. I think there's only a few left in stock online. And I need to make more sticks and the clear coasters. And we're thinking about making clear clocks for people. I just need to know if you guys think that would be a good idea and also... What would you pay for them? Well, like if we did a 12 inch clear round that has the whole drilled in it for the clockwork stuff, would you guys be interested? Also, are all the like clock mechanisms the same gauge or what? I hope that makes sense. We are making our own sticks now. It kind of has become necessary because everyone we were having help us with that are just too busy at this point doing their own life to really get us stuff in a timely manner. So we're doing it ourselves. We did cut the masonite circles on a laser cutter. It's like the most watermelon-like thing I've ever seen. Check clockparts.com. What's up, Sina? Thank you. Hi, Ida.  That pistachio's gorgeous. Can't wait to mine her eyes. Bowie! Nope. That's fun. Totally should, Clara. Bowie moved pretty fast. So, Moe was probably in the closet and Bowie was trying to chew on one of her cameras. That's great, Tiffany, that's awesome. Yeah, we were thinking of doing some wonky shapes too for the clock flinks. Rest of your own vacation. Thanks for tuning in still. Can you set that down? That does not look good with that gray taking over. Hi, Amber. GeoChance would be cool. Working on it. Wonky's a pro term. This is true. I used it very often. We miss you too, Rusty. We've got Texas shaped clocks that sell well. I bet you're right. What's the same color you used on that one? A little different. Margaret, you think this one looks like a cloud? Northern Arizona, cool and windy up here. We've lived in near Tucson for a little while. Well, in Tucson. That one looks great. I'm in milling paths. I'm in milling paths into wood on our CNC machine and filling with resin then standing off the back and backlighting with LED. It looks like a totally different color on the black. That's kind of strange parts. You're good. It does look totally different. I have no idea what end milling is, but there's a lot of stuff I want to learn in the wood shop. But you have to take so many classes. I already took two. Oh, I know. It's like I'm not going to do it. It would be a great date night to go to Maker Space. Any idea when a clear poster is coming in? They should? Hold on. You definitely have to put the gray down first. It'll take over. I'm just making mud. You shouldn't have any problem with the resin going over the sides and leaving big drips because it stops right at that edge. I think they'll look nice. That was fun. I'm fixing the inventory now on the posters, y'all. I'm not mad at this one. It just looks almost gold when you put it down on the black. There you go, Julie. You should be able to order the clear rounds now. We've seen them. Look how fun that is. That was fun. I'm sorry, Sherry. We are pouring on a camera today like camera phones instead of the regular live streaming cameras because our computer is making that noise and I didn't want to put you guys through that for a whole video. Have fun doing all of the coasters, Margaret. Thank you, Clara. Same team, Margaret. I'm trying to put some of this dust in places. Okay, hold on. I'm just trying to put it on here. I'm just trying to take this dust. It's like gold powder. It's a bright gold powder with a brush and put it on this mold just to see what the resin will do and what it'll look like. Putting some of this blue in there. And I'm wondering if it'll just stay where you lay it. Clara says that technique works great. I've never tried it before. I saw somebody do it the other day.  Sounds good. Be safe. People don't know how to holidays sometimes. So be careful. That's true last start. You do never know. But that's kind of what our channel is about. Taking things that may not work. And seeing if they'll work and if they do work trying to reverse engineer what made it work. At least in my head that's what's up.  No, I don't. I didn't really mess with that. We might do some Snapchat or a live stream from makers, but I don't know how good their sales signal is. I haven't even got on there. I haven't either. Tia, how you doing? You've been making some beautiful stuff. Are you the artist formerly known as death? You know what they say. I'm going to go back out and show you the diptych. I'm taking it for a ride and showing that pink and light blue. Those colors went really well together. So I'm going to try to move pretty slow so it doesn't get buffery. There's this little guy. This is probably my second favorite. I don't know about that. That's a gorge. Maya blue, hot pink, slate gray. I'll be ordering slate for you guys. It's not pistachio. It looks great with that paint, man. This is where we're at with these guys. My Lisa Frank waves. This is from working that quick coat too much, but I feel like I could make actual waves on a piece. With that technique. Tiffany, I stained these yesterday on the live feed. So if you just look one video back, you'll see the making of this diptych. I also resined this piece, but it faded just a little bit. But the dots are still there. I'm glad, Tia. Anything I can do to help. So it did fade. It was about this vibrant. So I'm going to put extra coats of the varnish on these to make sure that they stay lively and not dull out a little bit. Hi, Diane.  Maybe mount them or do something because I just love it. Not all. It doesn't look like a cohesive piece, like altogether, but parts of it. Anyways, thanks for tuning in, you guys, and seeing what we're up to. Moe wants to say hi. No. Crazy boys. I was like, I already have a snack. What do I need your snack for? And Moe wants to go outside. Don't you want to go outside? I know it. The video on how I made that diptych is on yesterday's live. Okay. All right, you guys, I got to take the boys out. I hope you have an amazing Sunday and a safe memorial day. I will see you guys tomorrow. 8 p.m. Central Standard, Dallas, Texas, United States time till then.


Okay. Here we go. Welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America, CodePink's weekly YouTube program of hot news out of Latin America and the Caribbean. In partnership with Friends of Latin America and Task Force on the Americas, we broadcast every Wednesday at 430pm Pacific 730pm Eastern. Last month, Progressive International received a letter from Brazil's articulation of indigenous peoples calling for solidarity in their luta pela vida, their struggle for life, and requesting a delegation to travel to Brazil to witness Bolsonaro's assault on indigenous people and the environment. Over the past 10 days, the delegation met with an incredible range of political actors in Brazil. Indigenous leaders from the API be I hope I say this correct to all of you. Quilombola representatives of the Coordina Cau National Day Articular Cau de Quilombos, CONAQ, members of Congress from parties such as the PT, PSOL, PSB, and others, local and state government representatives from Para. Trade unions and social movements, including the MST, MTST, and CUT, as well as members of the Pan Amazonic Social Forum, environmental groups, and civil society actors. Joining us in conversation today is Nick Estes who just returned to the US from Brazil. In fact, earlier this afternoon he just returned. He participated on the Progressive International emergency delegation. He is a journalist, historian, and host of the Red Nation podcast. Welcome Nick. It's good to be with you again Terry. I'm really great and I'm so I'm so honored that you are willing to make time I know you just got off a plane at noon time today. It's really wonderful to have you with us this evening. And I wonder if we can start with you sharing with the audience a little bit of your personal story because you who you are and what you are is so crucial to the story we're going to talk about this evening. Sure. I mean, it's an excellent place to start because a lot of the things that my people experienced in the 19th and 20th century is being experienced right now in Brazil and I was born and raised in the Missouri River in a place called Chamberlain, South Dakota, which is a border town. It's a white dominated settlement that rings, you know, the Indian reservations, most often in rural places. I'm an enrolled member of the lower rural Sioux tribe. And so in the 1950s and 1960s, the United States began a mass infrastructure development project to develop the Missouri River. And as a result, they installed five earthen rolled dams that affected Sioux tribes or Lakota and Dakota tribes as well as the Mandan Hidatsa Nation and Fort Berthold, which is in North Dakota. The Tixlone plan, the Tixlone project actually removed about a third of the populations of the river tribes and my tribe was included in that and my tribe actually had two dams built on it and we were flooded twice and removed twice. And we lived semi subsistence lifestyle in the 1950s so you could drink out of the water.  But then also there were just the free goods of nature, as they as they say, in terms of harvesting wild fruits and hunting and things of that nature and as a result, you know, they wiped out 75% of the wild game and 75% of the wild vegetation that we depended on so it was really an attack on our food. And the reason why I'm bringing this up is because this is what indigenous people and traditional communities in Brazil are facing right now. This is a battle for food. It's a battle for how nations, you know, eat and reproduce themselves and what nations consume products that are produced for them at the expense of others. Our lands in what we call the Ocete Chacoí country were sacrificed to build hydroelectric dams for the benefit of others and then also were sacrificed to build irrigation, which never came but nonetheless so it was it was electricity and farming. And we're the reasons why they dammed our river and it, you know, it constituted a huge kind of a historical trauma for for our people that carried on through generations but it's also important to remember, you know, I'm one generation removed from an almost subsistence lifestyle that's how early it was it didn't. These like 19th century Indian Wars and land grabs, you know, it didn't just happen 100 years ago it happened, you know, 60 to 70 years ago and it's still ongoing today and so there's so many similarities. And even with the mobilizations against the pipelines in 2016 we had a mass mobilization standing rock, which brought together over 300 different tribal nations and an encampment that was about 10,000 people. And today, you know, we have an I don't know code pink has some people who have done solidarity, renation has done solidarity with the line three encampments up in northern Minnesota within the people. So today, you know, there's just people in the United States are still resisting land grabs, they're still resisting large infrastructure projects that are ostensibly for the public good but we know that this is really just feeding into kind of. This the profit motive for fossil fuel companies and energy companies like Enbridge and Trans Canada so that's that's kind of the short brief history of who who I am and where I come from. I think it's so important for our audience to hear this because you know we're talking about a model a cultural and economic and political model that privatizes what you and your people would consider belongs to the earth and does not belong to human beings period. And we're seeing this all over Latin America and as you said it's not just something from 100 200 300 years ago it's it's a model that still exists to this day in the United States. And also I think I probably the story so many of our viewers are, are familiar with when you mentioned hydroelectric controlling water damning water would be back the chaser is situation in Honduras with the length of people there. But these abuses and privatization and control of the environment natural resources and people is one of our some of the reasons why the act that so many activists in Brazil had requested this progressive international delegation. Can you tell us very quickly, what is progressive international because you are part of that as well as red nation and many other activist groups. Yeah, so the progressive international is a network of trade unions progressive parties and social movements, who's been recently doing, you know, a lot of solidarity work from things such as doing like election observations and doing a political delegations to meet the social demands, or to, you know, in this case, sort of investigate and see on the ground, what is happening in this in this situation, especially under Bolsonaro. So let's this was a 10 day delegation and just finished like yesterday you flew back to the states today. Let's talk about the delegation I know one of the reasons I specifically reached out to you to talk with us this evening is because of this genocide suit that the people's of Brazil filed at the Hague against the Bolsonaro government and this is particularly fascinating to me my, my activism started in the 80s and Guatemala with, you know, with the genocide of the Maya people there and they say genocide as a nation of people received genocide state a status in 2005, which allowed them to, you know, to start changing Guatemala it's, you know, still very difficult and still very slow but so let's talk a little bit about the delegation what you saw and and then also that this genocide suit filed. I'll start with the genocide suit so a PB, which is the, the group the API be in Portuguese they say a PB, which is interesting. But they say they're really hard for me to say I apologize. It's really like CUT, or the Union, Gucci, Gucci. So, yeah, it's a bunch of different things. So this genocide lawsuit was filed at the Hague on August night so this month and they're calling it the indigenous August, and there was also like an indigenous April as well they were, you know, so this has been an ongoing kind of series of uprisings and social mobilizations against the Bolsonaro government. And it's important to say that a lot of the things that they're protesting and challenging, you know, aren't unique to Bolsonaro per se they've just been intense intensified, and it was made very clear by the organizers. You know that people such as Sonia Guajajara, as well as Alessandra Munduruku, that this was not, that this particular moment in time is unprecedented.  And so there's, there's three components of this genocide lawsuit as far as I understand it. And one is, you know, just the listing of the abuses by the Bolsonaro government, you know, which includes the destruction of public infrastructure to guarantee indigenous people, you know, social and environmental rights to territory.  And the consequences of these things, the second part, you know, is the invasion and dispossession of indigenous lands. It's primarily deforestation in the Amazon. And this, you know, this is for mining, this is for agribusiness. These two sectors are very powerful and resilient politics. And they're pushing, you know, people like, you know, Bolsonaro and others, essentially to carry out, you know, to use the state as the handmaiden of capital, you know, so to say, but basically to open these places up, or to turn a blind eye because the state sometimes may be involved directly in the clearing out of an area or a territory. And other times they'll just not pay attention and turn a blind eye. But the policy that kind of indirect or the informal policy, so to speak, is what they call the the Bible and the boy, which is like the bullets, the Bible and the bull or the cow. So it sounds like they're conquistadors from 500 years ago. Exactly. And they are drawing specifically like there's no ambiguity about this on the tradition of violent settler colonialism in the United States, because they are arming everyday people. Many of them are poor, you know, landless folks themselves, they're arming them in the service of, you know, large landowners and agribusiness. So there has been an increase, so 50% of the population is armed. But it's not just the increase in guns, but it's the increase in ammunition and making ammunition more available. And of course, the ideological underpinning of a lot of this is the Bible. The evangelical movement is very strong in Brazil, and specifically kind of the sort of the vanguard of a lot of these settlement projects. Oftentimes you'll see a, you know, a little settlement in the middle of nowhere, but there'll be a giant church, right, with makeshift shacks around it, and it'll be a evangelical church. And of course, the bull or the cow, the cattle industry is very huge and very powerful in Brazil.  In two ways, one is that, you know, there's the cattle industry and just, you know, putting cows out on the land, but to do so you have to clear large swaths of forest to do that, but also creating the feed for that cattle. And a lot of the soy that's grown on this deforested land by corporations such as Cargill is exported to places like the United States and Europe to be, you know, turned into feed, basically to feed cattle here, right. You know, Cargill is, Cargill kept coming up in a lot of our conversations, and I can talk a little bit more about that, but that's kind of the sort of three areas, three lines of attack that the Bolsonaro government is using, not just against Indigenous people, but all kinds of people. So it's important to note that in places like the Amazon, 68% of the population is Black. So you have a large Black rural population with the Quilambolas. You also have the Rivian heroes. I'm mispronouncing he, it's the he being heroes. I don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly. When people say Spanish and Portuguese are similar, it's not true. Maybe for a non like native speaker of Spanish, but it's the river people. So there are other like, you know, traditional communities that are tied to territory and are very much grounded and integrated within other, you know, Indigenous communities or they themselves have been, you know, a mixture of Indigenous ancestry and a bit of, you know, Indigenousity as part of their experience, but that they are also under attack. And I think that's important to bring up because at the front line, so to speak, is the Indigenous people, but then also it includes other, you know, other people. And then the final, you know, the final point on that is just to say that the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has been devastating. I think the last count was like 600,000 deaths, which is, it's unprecedented, you know, and when we arrived, they were coming off that surge and it has very much impacted Indigenous communities. Many of them are isolated by choice. They isolate by choice, but because of the influx of minors, loggers, as well as farmers, they are introduced to the disease. And obviously, they're the last to be served when it comes to public health and everything like that. So that was another issue or that was another aspect of this charge of genocide. And I think that that genocide charge at the Hague, it encompasses a lot of the things that we saw on the ground when we were there. Well, for Indigenous people, the term genocide doesn't just refer to human beings. It refers to genocide of the earth, too, which we term, you know, ecocide, but it's genocide on all living things. Yeah, and it's important to actually define, you know, to look at the legal, the international legal definition of genocide, because genocide doesn't always involve the active killing. Like it doesn't mean like you're just centering Calvary people out to annihilate people. It also means, you know, imposing, you know, certain measures to stop the growth of that population. And it also means attacking food sources in some instances. So I think that it is important to note that this isn't just an anthro-centric process that it also entails when you destroy the land, you also destroy the people. Yeah. We starve them. Exactly. You could make the argument that's what unilateral coercive measures are used for what a lot of us say sanctions. It's, yeah, the second. So there's a couple of things you mentioned that I just kind of want to re-emphasize. You mentioned destruction of public infrastructure, and you mentioned Cargill, which makes me just automatically think destruction of public infrastructure and pushing privatization and not just privatization, but privatization for transnational corporations around the planet and especially in the global south. And that's kind of, I would say that's the framework, or that's Bolsonaro's main mission is to help make that happen. Let's talk about the political context of Brazil right now because this is part of what the Progressive International Delegation was there to investigate and observe as well. It goes without saying that somebody like Jair Bolsonaro is the result of a kind of global trend of right wing authoritarianism and neo-fascism. The Brazilian right sees itself very much connected and influenced by the right wing in the United States and Trumpism specifically. In fact, the week before I went on this delegation, Jair Bolsonaro's son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, was speaking in my home territory for this event about how, as by Mike Lindell, the Mike Pillow guy, and he was about the elections and how Trump lost the elections. Eduardo Bolsonaro was there talking about how if Bolsonaro, if his father loses the election next October, not in 2022, that it's probably going to be the fault of these voting machines, much like they stole the election from Trump. But also it was also said at that conference that, you know, and this is South Dakota, right, this is where I'm from. It's not a very populated state and it was going on at the same time as the Biker Rally where, you know, almost three quarters of a million people descended on the state, not wearing masks, you know, ignoring any kind of social distancing. This is the annual Biker Rally in Sturgis. Exactly, exactly. And so he wasn't speaking at the rally, but it was during the event, you know, it was during that whole kind of hoopla.  And because he could defeat, you know, Bolsonaro and it's expected that he will. I mean, Bolsonaro isn't polling very well. He's, you know, he's lost a lot of his base of support because of the pandemic, but also because he's not really doing anything. He's kind of ruling by decree. And so there's, there's a similar kind of sense of attack on our mobilizing the right to attack certain institutions. So on September 7, which is Independence Day in Brazil, I believe. We are planning a mobilization to invade the Congress, the Brazilian Congress, to invade the Supreme Court, which has been battling the decrees by the Bolsonaro government and the actions by the Bolsonaro government.  And also the, the invasion of the Chinese embassy. And we can see, you know, this, this xenophobia towards China. You know, it's not just a kind of personal animosity towards, you know, people of Chinese descent or Asian people in general. But it's an attack on, you know, the project that Lula and others had set in motion to sort of delink themselves from the US economy and begin trade relations with China. So the kind of geopolitical maneuvering that's going on there, but then also the attack on Congress because they have been systematically harassing and haranguing members of the Workers Party, which is the main kind of left force, the largest left force in the Brazilian Congress, and among social movements, because they represent a primary threat, but also attacking other, you know, leftist tendencies like the pay soul, which is aligned somewhat with PT in this particular the Workers Party in this moment. So you have this polarization, much like we saw in the United States. And so amidst this historic up this historic mobilization where you have 6000 indigenous people, you know, on their national mall, which is not called the National Mall but it's similar to the United States, historic, there's never there hasn't been as I was told and I don't know if this is true but I was told that it was the largest encampment, protest encampment in recent history. And, you know, not just of indigenous people but in general. So you have this mass mobilization, and the right is going to come back, you know, swinging and trying to set the stage that the game is rigged against their candidate of choice. So this is a this is a long game that they're playing, and there are. We started the narrative now, as you said, South Dakota they've already started the narrative about the voting machine so. And so they're going international with their movement and we have to be international with ours. And we have to understand that this mode of capitalist accumulation and dispossession on the so called frontier that's what they call it down there, the frontier on the. They're pushing, you know, that's called the Marco Temporale the, the kind of, I don't know how to translate in English but it's like a, the territories that define, or excuse me the way that the Constitution defines indigenous territories, when the Constitution was written in 1988, it kind of set those in stone. It's now the move now with laws and measures is to like push those territories back into essentially dispossess indigenous people. And that move is going hand in hand with the attempts by agribusiness and being pushed, I don't know if it's being pushed necessarily but it's definitely benefiting multinational corporations like Cargill, who operates out of Minnesota and has this very, you know, family friendly face to it, you know, the CEO was talking about how they were undoing racial discrimination within their corporate their corporate culture by having workshops about being woke and white fragility and whatever it was you know that they were talking about. But fundamentally, Cargill is anti black and anti indigenous because it is, it is the primary economic mode, a motor of dispossession of the Amazon, right. He knows this it's building these massive ports it's it's trying to get as much done that it can under under Bolsonaro, because it knows that there's going to be no it's going to swing left again because people are pushing back and fighting back and so that's sort of the way that I was told the political situation is playing out right now on the ground in Brazil. I just want to share with you a couple of comments in our chat because I think you should, you should hear some of this is where you have. This is from love and from love indigenous. Oh, I just lost hello somebody. Hello from Cheyenne. Cheyenne River Lakota lands. Oh, nice. South Dakota, and then from Anna Paula Vargas she's just just confirming what you just said this was the largest camp and mobilization since 1988 when the Brazilian Constitution was approved. Exactly. So. We've got a few minutes left I'm so happy to see how many people have joined us this evening because this is such an important. Such an important story to be sharing with everyone and and as you shared with me Nick before we went live it it's not something we're hearing much at all about in in the US media Western media in general. And of course Bolsonaro's, you know, reflective of the model the US wants to perpetuate across the globe. So, let's talk a little bit about in our last few minutes, the progressive international delegation specifically the itinerary where you know it's just so our viewers have a, have an idea of, you know, where you went and who you met with and. Yeah, I think after I do that I'll maybe talk a little bit about what we hope the outcomes are of this trip based on the people we talked to so we witnessed the the catastrophe that PV warned us about when it comes to the violent dispossession of indigenous killambola traditional communities, the assassination of their leaders, and the intensification of extraction of their wealth. And we, we started our delegation of facility which is the capital of Brazil. We met with the landless workers movement or the MTS T and talk and went to one of their encampments and we had food. We ate with at one of their free kitchens that they had and learned about what was going on there. We talked about Brazilia, the inequality capital of Brazil, which is very true. And then we convened with top members of Congress, specifically from the opposition to hear their grave concerns about, you know, Bolsonaro's frontal assault on democracy and his desire to hold power by any means necessary. So we traveled to the state of Pará, which is at the delta of a south of the delta of the Amazon river were empties into the Atlantic Ocean. And we sat one night we sat with about 100 or actually several hundred community leaders until late in the evening. The local power supply that was once national was recently privatized and so they're going through waves of blackout so it was incredibly hot because there's no air conditioning. We hear their stories of pain, anger and resistance. We also listened to their songs and poetry. And we talked about, you know, the violent targeting of their lands and lives and then the next day we traveled deep into the Amazon and met with Quique Kilimbola and traditional communities living along the river. We talked about the levels of mercury that they're finding in the waters and the devastation of their lands. And then we joined, we will return to Brazilia and joined the Maduro on the kaipo and many other indigenous groups in their in their act at the Lutapé la vida resistance camp in the in the capital. And we talked about, you know, the line three pipeline and how we can support them as an international delegation. And so one of the, you know, one of the things that we're looking into. We're going to we're asking members of Congress to look into why William Burns was what William Burns is meeting that who is the director of the CIA what his meeting with Bolsonaro was. Because we know that the CIA played a role in the lava Jato, which led to the cool Dilma and the election of Bolsonaro. We're also calling for further investigations into genocide of indigenous in Kilimbola communities and calling on multinational calling for an investigation and congressional investigation on multinational corporations, such as Cargill and their role in, you know, driving this on the land. And then finally, we made a commitment to return in October 2020 to observe the elections. So that was, excuse me. 2022. 2022. Excellent. I have a few more hellos I want to share with you. This is Adam just hopped on tuning in from Taiwan and Tewa lands, am I saying that correctly, they want you are and greetings from the children of Sun Island Salash Spokane tribal territory. So, yeah. Let's talk about what what would you personally and also the Progressive International delegation proper. What, what can you suggest we as activists do to follow up on on your delegation findings, what do you need us to do and how can we do it. So, we issued a sort of final statement on the delegation and I can share it with you and you can share with others. We have several action items, but I think, you know, the biggest, the biggest way that we can kind of make the amplify these voices is to go to the PV website and read their documents on genocide, which is a P I B O F C L which is O F I C I a L O R G, where they have all the information that you need and they have their calls to action and how you can support indigenous people. But also, I think we need to look at how what role the United States plays in all of this and especially the corporations and our consumption because this is an imperialist relation. And, you know, the, the, the economics of imperialism are driving this deforestation so we do it's not just a national project of the Bolsonaro government. But it's also the United States is directly benefiting from this and as well as European nations, because we are a beef consuming nation, right and it's not just about making, you know, I respect people who are vegans about it's not just about making the national choices which are good to, you know, to avoid these products, but it's also investigating the supply chains, and regulating them, and also calling for a different mode of how we eat and consume in this country because right now it's not sustainable it's literally destroying it's burning up the lungs of the planet in the Amazon. And the final thing to and this is a this is a request that I had by the lens workers movement. We need to investigate how pensions in the United States are being invested in land privatization in Brazil. I just did a quick Google search. And you will see it brought up so much. So this is something that you know there are so many fronts. And we owe it to our brothers and sisters are relatives or comrades who are on the front lines, whether they're part of the social movements, whether they're part of the opposition parties whether they're indigenous kilambolo communities, we owe it to them, because we, we play a huge role in this, and we may not see it. But you know where we get our cheeseburgers where we get our food directly impacts the Amazon, and it's up to us to make those decisions and to transform this social system here that we, we have control of in the United States, or ostensibly have control over to pressure certain people individuals and institutions, but also to to build an alternative that this that our way of life doesn't have to be predatory or parasitic on others. That is so true. I have to say, I was in South America quite a number of countries earlier this year. And I remember talking with a person who used to work in the in the United States, not a US citizen was back home. And he said, you know, in order for you, you know me as a US citizen, you to have the life you have the consumer products you have the diet you have as you mentioned with the beef cattle. For you to stay wealthy with consumer products and food products, we have to remain poor. I mean, this was somebody a friend personal friend who spent years in the United States with a high education, and, you know, to sit over a beer and hear that come back, you know, in a, you know, in a non aggressive manner but to hear that reality that for you to have what you have you Terry and your fellow US citizens, we have to remain poor. And I think that's the entire global sell for basically the last 500 years. And this is a food. This is a food rich country. There's so much food that comes from the Amazon. And that's, you know, created locally and produced locally within Brazil. But why are people starving, you know why are people going hungry. And that's that's the question this is the dynamics of imperialism we have a role to play in that and so, you know, we have to own up to a responsibility. Because there are so many beautiful alternatives to that kind of extractive project going on, you know, on the ground where there's the MST the MTS T the indigenous mobilizations. They are very inspirational like the movements are very powerful and strong their leaders are amazing and we have so much to learn from them. And they have, they have the alternative and so it's our job to support them and to ensure that they have a fair and democratic process. Because we know that the CIA isn't has, you know, the US isn't has inserted itself in their democratic process. So let's so is there anything that that you'd like to say before I let you go this evening. Anything that I've missed, or that you want to reiterate or I would just like to say that being in Luta pela vida was life altering for me it was. I don't know how to put it into words is it was very not only was it like a spiritual experience but it was very like empowering to see all the different groups of indigenous people come together and they're diverse, much like the United States they're very diverse in their language their culture their customs, the, you know, the things that they wear everything, you know, the way that they carry themselves. And it was just, it was just a reminder that there's so much at stake in this moment in time that we can't really be in a hostages to a politics of cynicism that here you have the most, you know, one of the most diverse groups sectors of society and Brazilian society that travel days and mobilized right because they have an alternative they have, you know, they're in there and it's not just an exclusive thing for indigenous people, but they understand the role that they play in this broader movement. And to me and for me like, you know we're in this moment where there seems to be like a lack of mobilization on the ground under Biden, people may be fatigued because of the pandemic and four years but you know there are movements that are going on right now that are historic and very revolutionary and, you know, we, we need to pull ourselves out of that kind of that that politics of cynicism and pessimism and really look at the very positive social movements that are underway right now, especially coming from the south, because we have so much to learn from them, and especially their collective power their discipline nature or just so mind blowing, it's beautiful.  I see what indigenous nations people are doing across the planet, and including in the United States. And I guess for me it's really powerful to see the difference and important to understand the difference. Among a nation of people who see themselves as integrated with nature as part of the web of the entire earth versus being in a paradigm where human beings rule over everything. And it's just to me that is that is a paradigm that is that is basically going to prove to be the vanguard of humanity we either accept that we're part, and you know, and not though the rulers over everything on the planet, but we're part of the entire web. And yeah, it and I just, I don't know how to how to teach people that except to have someone like you come back and talk with us and inspire everyone to take a, you know, a different a different look and and start an evolutionary process of changing systems for changing systems. Yeah. And starting with our own system in the United States so. So thank you Nick, really wonderful to see you. I'm so thankful for your time this evening. And I want to just remind our viewers that you've been watching what the F is going on in Latin America code pinks weekly YouTube program of hot news out of Latin America and the Caribbean. We broadcast every Wednesday on code pink you to live 730pm Eastern, and also be sure to catch code pink radio every Thursday morning 11am Eastern 830am or 1111am Eastern 8am Pacific excuse me on WBA I radio out of New York City and simulcasting on WPFW out of Washington DC. And so thanks again, Nick I'd love to have you come back and talk with us and keep this conversation going and, and connect the dots for all of us throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, because it's particularly egregious now in Brazil but this is something that is happening pretty much everywhere. So, okay. Oh, thank you. I really appreciate your time this evening. Thanks so much.


Good afternoon and welcome to this press conference from the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Thank you for joining us here in the room Thank you for joining those who Watch us on Periscope on the website or on Facebook We're particularly pleased and honored today here to Have the ability to introduce to you The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Murawiecki and to his immediate left. We're joined by Konrad Siemanski Who's the deputy foreign minister of Poland without further ado? Prime Minister over to you, please Thank you very much, and I would also like to thank everybody who is watching us and interested in Perspective of Poland and how we look at the World Economic Forum and its motto here committed to Improving the state of the world is also the motto for Poland Maybe we focus more on the European dimension, but we take it very seriously and in in this very context we Focus also on completing the single European market, and this is What I was discussing with many of my colleagues from Western and Eastern Europe it might seem strange, but I Truly believe that we can increase the competitiveness of the whole Europe and through this we can be we can contribute a lot to to more positive world if we complete seeing the single European markets through Real implementation of freedom to provide services This is one of the four freedoms of the treat from the Treaty of Rome not yet completed And this is one area where we try to find allies Of course in in the world post Brexit it it will it is going to be a little bit more difficult by it But the countries like nor and Norway in the context of European economic zone area but in Denmark and the Netherlands and and other countries are Are are going to support us in those efforts? Well, like the Europe the European Union for us is like two lungs The Western Europe and Eastern Europe and like in the post-war Europe The Marsha plan was in the interest of Europe But in the interest of the US at the same time because it has recreated the Western Europe and help it Flourish and and develop in the very right direction and then the Western Europe became a very critical ally for the United States In in in the very similar manner today, I believe that some Support and opening of markets and and lowering trade barriers and And softening some protectionist measures would help to develop the robust Central and Eastern Europe which will then in turn be a very good very good Elements supporting the the development of competitiveness and the development of of the European Union as such We have also discussed Lots of security related issues not only energy security like related to to the to the Baltic pipe or not streamed to But also the security in general the Russian invasion on Ukraine and the Minsk agreement and And many other security related issues also In the context of the refugees migrations This is the area where we would like to play positive role and we Present our very active position towards helping the poor people those very poor people migrants and the refugees in situ in the places where they are coming from to Europe and also Like the responsibility of the elites some people call this meeting in Davos and meeting of elites is also tackling imbalances and inequalities in today's world and report of ox by ox farm presented just before the World Economic Forum started which is Showing the proportions of the wealth created and where where where does it go? 82% of the new newly created wealth goes to the pockets of 1% of the population in the world and Question hanging in the air here. Is this sustainable? Is it not in my opinion? It is not so we have to work on a new New new deal on new social contract like in in Europe and some other places in the world In the post-war era. There was a new social contract Established and and today with the new circumstances new challenges around us in the context of the era of robotics artificial intelligence rapid technological changes we need new Proposition for millions if not hundreds of millions he has hundreds of millions of people all over the world But also there are there is significant part of the population across different countries in the European Union with who are Extremely anxious uneasy about the changes around us and our Economic growth has to be strong, but has to be inclusive at the same time That's maybe as an opening or opening remarks for Polish journalist Should I repeat it more or less in Polish or is it is it okay that I stop today stop now and It would be nice. Okay Szanowni Państwo krótkostresz to to co powiedziałem Wczarodziejskiej górze Tomasza Manna stolat temu w tym miejscu elity ówczesnego świata zastanawialy się nad wyzwaniami Jakie są przed nimi Rozpoznały te wyzwania dość słabo bo wiemy jak się potem potoczyło kilkadziesiąt kolejnych lat później po drugiej wojnie światowej W ramach planu marszała dla europejskiej wspólnoty węgla i stali ówczesne elity rozpoznały Wyzwania słusznie i dzisiaj myślę po kolejnych kilkudziesięciu latach jesteśmy właśnie na takim znowu zakręcie Historii W ramach którego musimy głęboko przemyśleć wyzwania współczesnego świata związane z nierównościami to ten słynny raport oxfarmu, który Mówi tu dzisiejszym elitom, że nie może być dalej tak, że 82 procent tworzonego majątku tworzonej wartości dodanej Idzie do idzie wręce Jednego procenta najbogatszych ludzi, bo a połowa najbiedniejsza połowa ludzkości, to przypomnę, jest to 3 miliardy 700 milionów ludzi Właściwie nie ma w ogóle przyrostu majątku, więc w takich okolicznościach dyskusja nad lepszym światem, nad regulacjami, nad zasadami inkluzywnego wzrostu jest moim zdaniem fundamentalna I Polska oraz Europa Centralna ma szansę pozytywnie przyczynić się do rozwoju na do rozwoju do Sytuacja Ekonomicznej Finansowej właśnie akcentując to, że ten przypływ musi rzeczywiście podnosić wszystkie łódki, a nie niektórych Zostawiać na plaży, bo rozwój Gospodarczy, który nie włącza społeczeństwa, który nie służy tym zwyczajnym ludziom, który omija ich nie będzie zaakceptowany w ramach demokracji W ramach różnych krajach, więc warto przyłożyć ogromną uwagę właśnie do tego, żeby dzisiaj rozpoznać Wyzwania przyszłości i takie adresować, żeby ogromna większość ludzi korzystała na wzroście gospodarczym i na stabilności politycznej, którą dzisiaj mamy For questions, you might ask the question either in English or Polish as you wish We have a microphone here, if I could see a show of hands This is a gentleman in the back, let's take the first two questions there please Marcin Czapski, TVP Info Panie premierze, chciałem zapytać, czy jakieś sukcesy możemy już odnotować? Wczoraj słyszeliśmy od deklaracji ze strony Google, czy po kolejnych rozmowach coś jeszcze? Padło?  Thank you very much and let's get the second question from the gentleman back there please. Yes, Prime Minister, I'm not sure, I can't understand everything you said in Polish so maybe it could double a bit. So you mentioned two things, I have two questions. The first thing is you talked about the new deal. Can you give us some more concrete measures, what it is about? How should it look? And the second thing is you want to deepen the common market. Also some more details please. That would be nice, thank you very much. Would you also share your name and organization with us please? Yes, my name is Wenastama by FASat. Thank you. In the context of the first question, what I really mean is that today with rapid technological changes so many people are fearful of their jobs, of their job, of their working place and we have to create a vision presenting to them that they will not be left alone. That the new social contract will have some proposition for them even if they are unemployed or what the unemployment state is going to be. What will it really mean for those people? According to lots of recent researches by renowned universities some 50-60% of today's jobs will get lost over the next 15-20 years and probably new type of jobs, new occupations are going to be created. I have no doubts about this but for most of the children as they say which are in the process of education today they will not be employed in sectors which are existing today. So huge vast changes which have to be addressed through new social contract. I would name it like this. Your second question was about the single European market, common market. Maybe a couple of simple examples. One is freedom to provide services which the biggest attempt to really deliver on this, the famous Wolkenstein directive failed some decade ago and today we see some protectionist measures on the side of some richer countries and those measures are going to jeopardize the competitiveness of the whole European Union and in my opinion it's better to allow for more competition from small and meat-sized, from meat-sized in particular from meat-sized Central and Eastern European companies allow for this competition because this is a kind of proxy for the competition which will anyway come from the other regions in the world like China, like India, like the United States or Latin America or the Middle East and in this context completing the single European market from the point of view of freedom to provide services is going to be good short and mid-term for Central and Eastern Europe but it's going to be very good for the whole European Union in the mid to longer term. I would also mention capital markets union because this is another element of the whole jigsaw which is by far not completed and this is this type of access to capital which is extremely important for small and meat-sized enterprises so I would emphasize those elements and on top of this a couple of others like I only mentioned those like common defense policy like the European defense fund we strongly supported permanent structured cooperation and the works around the directive on post-it workers these are these elements where we have to find compromise for the single European market to be stronger rather than weaker Thank you very much. I think we have time for one last question from the lady in the middle here please. I would like to ask you Mr. Prime Minister to refer to few specific questions. First of all here in Davos we were set a lot of words of concern about that there is too much of complacency and the government should build some buffers on the time of economic downturn. Do you agree with them? What particular risks have you already defined? The second question is could you refer to the statement of a supreme court spokesman, spokesperson in Poland that you are spreading fake news or generalize talking about judiciary system in Poland and maybe some more evaluation about cryptocurrency threats and your measures which you would like to implement. Thank you. Considering the advance time I'd say we probably focus on the questions that concern the international agenda and maybe keep the domestic questions for a later point but Prime Minister? It is very important item discussed here in Davos how to actually cope for the risks of the future and how to build buffers and what if the monetary policy is no longer effective. In the context of dealing with today's difficulties and this was the topic of many discussions which I led yesterday and today and in this very context I have emphasized what we have done in the area of tax gathering system tax collection system. Here we have been extremely successful in 2017 because we were able to close more than half of the VAT gap which has created a completely new economic situation where we have expanded our social programs and at the same time we have reduced our projected budget deficit and our public debt is much lower in relation to GDP than it was and used to be a year ago. On top of this our GDP growth is today much stronger than 90% of rating agencies and brokerage houses and financial institutions would have predicted just 12 months ago. It is indicating that our concoction of different elements in the context of micro-macro policy and regulatory policy so our policy mix including independent central bank with their monetary policy works very well and for some other countries in the central and eastern Europe we can be a good example of how to get out of some traps which we fall into after 25 years of the development which was not bad but it could have been much better if not the mistakes from the past. To your latter question only one sentence it's only about facts. The facts have been published. How many judges in today's Supreme Court? I regret very much that so many judges in the Supreme Court stem from the times of the martial law when during the very dark communist times they were active judges supporting communist regime. Thank you very much Prime Minister for taking the time to answer questions from media. Thank you very much for being here in the room. Thank you very much for watching. Thank you.


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Thank you. Thank you, David. Thank you everyone for having us here today. We're very happy, very honored. I'm sorry. I have a very... I was very nervous, so I developed a very bad cold, so I'm sorry if I cough and it hurts your ears. So my name is Tatiana, and I'm 29 years old. Half French, half Filipino, and the very proud co-owner of a four-month-old restaurant called Le Cervant, which I opened with my lovely sister Katia, who takes care of everything else that's not cooking, and our business partner, Edward, without whom nothing would have been possible. So we see it 40 people, and we work at a cart. It's seven of us working there, so it's a very small structure, and it's been open, as I said, for only four months, so it's a baby, basically. The past ten years in Paris, lots of young chefs have opened many new bistros, where they propose exceptional produce and very creative food for an affordable price, and, at the same time, chefs all over the world in Paris have been getting so much attention, and it seems that what used to be a very blue-collar profession is shifting to something a little bit more glamorous, and it's a very interesting time to be a chef now, because things are changing, and even when I started, which was barely ten years ago, I never could have imagined things would go so fast. So when you start a restaurant, everything is very, very scary, and time and timing is in the middle of everything.  So for me, this is what this was about, time and how you work with it. So working with hours, work hours that go too fast, and then working with your own past and tradition to fit in the present, and the time you're in, but also building the future. So two years ago, my sister and I had the first talk on what we wanted to do, on what we wanted to build, and we didn't really have an idea of what that was, but we knew that we wanted to work together and support each other and do something on our own to sustain ourselves. So after going through lots of different phases and very different ideas, we started looking for an old café or something casual where we could make something that resembled us, because that's what it was about. It was about doing something that resembled us and that reflected what we loved and what we knew, what we thought good. So that was very scary. That was maybe the scariest thing of all, because you feel like you're showing yourself to everyone and showing the most intimate things about yourself and also exposing yourself to judgment as of what you're capable of doing, and that's very, very, very scary. So what was interesting is that all the ideas that we could have had, that we had before the opening of the restaurant were mostly never happened. I mean, we had lots of prefixed things in mind and none of it just came true because things are actually so spontaneous and so driven by your mood and the people you're with and what you feel like. So it was actually very interesting, because I say we because I speak for both of us, but we learned a lot about ourselves in the past four months, maybe more than ever. So the first week of the opening, I remember thinking, I can't wait to be in three months. This is too new, this is too hard, this is too new, this is completely crazy. And in those first weeks, all the press came, all the journalists were here, lunch and dinner, and it was like every service you were being judged. And there's a huge gap between what you feel when you're... It's an embryo of a restaurant, nothing is fixed yet, you're not even sure of what direction you're taking. And people are already here waiting for something to be completely done and completely finished and it's completely... It's very scary and it's sometimes very frustrating to think that people make up their minds so early on when you feel like you're just at the very, very beginning of something. And it's also... There's another huge gap there. It's that you live in a very closed bubble and you work really long hours with six people, always the same, and you're very focused.  It's crazy. And though I was in a good position to imagine that, I didn't realize things would go so fast and would be so important. And so it's a good thing, because it does fill up the restaurant from day two, which is, I think, something new in the restaurant business now, is that restaurants become full from day two from an article or... And so it's a good thing you can't deny, but it's also hard, because you feel... It exposes you to much more judgment maybe than it used to, and everyone is here to judge you. And that's something that's very, very difficult to take at first, I mean, to support. So by the time the two first weeks were over, the press had already come and that was done. So we could move on with feeding real clients and cooking for real people who wanted to eat, which was a relief, and it was a very good thing. Our image was already fixed because the whole press had done it for us. We don't have any Facebook or Instagram or anything, so because we thought that we should focus on some things that were more of our competence and we didn't really know how to use those things to our advantage, we thought we'd focus on cooking and taking care of our small little business, but there's this whole image of the restaurant that was built without us. And what's interesting is that it's always the same thing. We made no press release, no, and what comes out is always the same thing. So I think that's a good thing, but I'm not sure. So in the two first months, we lost part of our team. I think that's something everyone who opens a restaurant goes through. And though it was for the best for everyone, it was very, very scary so early on to have to start everything over again and teach again, especially after realizing how bad a teacher I was and how complicated it was doing all these things at the same time. So all this turnover made me realize the importance of manpower and the importance of the people you work with. This is really what made the opening and what made the food what it was at that time. It was who the people were, who we were, and also what we were capable of doing given all the constraints. So constraints has always been for me something of a... It's a good thing. It's a motor. It's something that helps you make choices. And it's the people who you work with, what they're willing or capable of doing, and it's also season and time and material place and all of those things. Or rather than inspiration, the constraint is what forged what we did those first few months. So it's always a funny thing for me to hear about inspiration because it makes cooking sound like such an art. And for me, cooking is much more of a craft. And inspiration is something that... I don't know, it's just... What you cook is something that comes from so many different things. Inspiration is something I think I've never really felt. But anyway, when inspiration, or what people call inspiration fails, constraint was a good thing. And also what I found very reassuring in time when I was scared of everything was the past and tradition. And what we, my sister and I have always liked to eat and the way we are used to eating. And also what I've learned in very different structures, very traditional ways, I found that knowing this, knowing traditional technique, knowing traditional French cooking was something that was very reassuring. Like if worse came to worse and really I had no idea of what to do, I could always go back to doing a beurre blanc or something very traditional and that would just work, I guess, because it's always worked. And so in a time where everything is scary, I found that tradition and technique is something that was very reassuring. Because the way we work is, I think, I mean it was for a while a little bit too spontaneous. Last year I was here to translate Pascal Barbos' talk about spontaneity and I had no idea things would get so spontaneous. So it was a good thing I had reflected on it before because what happened was crazy. And the way we make our menus is much more spontaneous than what I think anyone could imagine. We have all these products and I'm not saying this is the good way, I'm even saying this is not the good way of doing things, but and cook up things the way we feel like it. And menus change every day and Katya prints the menus out always a little bit too late, 45 minutes before the clients come. So I tell her what we're cooking and sometimes she gets it right, sometimes she doesn't and then so she prints it out and by the time menus are printed it's already too late. So whatever she printed out or whatever I told her, sometimes I didn't even tell her the right thing is what we're going to do. And so we always have a menu that's in the kitchen, so if we forgot something that we prepared or got something wrong, we have a reminder of what we're supposed to be serving people. So again a very bad example of how to open a restaurant, I think that's not a good idea. So what was I saying? Yes, so all of this makes you feel not that comfortable, it's like you're always on the edge being judged, you're giving everything. We, after four months we closed the restaurant for two weeks vacation, which was necessary I think for us and the whole team who's been working really hard and whom I thank very much. And we look forward to the future, but we're also very nervous that in those two weeks everyone has forgotten us and you come back and your restaurant is empty and all of that is like something, a new fear that's within you and that like Renee told me yesterday that just doesn't leave. So it's actually scary knowing that you're going to be scared for the next 10 years. But it's also very exciting and I think it's, I'm sure. And so it's also very exciting and what we really do want is to learn how to cook in the future and how to cook to make this last. What's interesting is learning about yourself while you're building your own future. And so in that sense this opening was a huge success because we learned so much about ourselves and we learned so much about the people we worked with. That was a huge success. But I have to say I had a yoga teacher who used to tell me feel the pleasurable pain and I found that this expression was something very true for a restaurant opening. It's like you're almost, it's a discomfort that's almost painful but yet it's very constructive and it makes you grow so much that it gives you pleasure. And I think that cooking in a very new restaurant is about that, is about taking pleasure in what you do and it's the only way to give it to other people. So I think now that things are going so fast the truth is still what it was maybe 50 years ago. Cooking is about hospitality and sharing what you love with other people and making them want to love you and come back to see you. So that's it. I really wanted to thank everyone here for having us again. It was a huge honor. And thanking, I really wanted to thank our team who's been, they've been so great and so brave and it was so touching to see them work so hard for us. It's also very new and that was fantastic. So thank you, thank you very much.


Hi allan, Toma Tynllw i'n meddwl ar y dyfodol Asperg. A dyna, rwy'n gweithio'r ffordd yw'r ffordd o prebiotech ac probiotech. Rwy'n credu bod y prebiotech ac probiotech yw dwy o gweithio'r ffordd o'r cyfnod yn y cyfnod, os ydych chi'n gweithio yn y cyfnod y cyfnod, rwy'n gweithio'r gweithio mewn cyfnod i gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. A dyna ydych chi'n gweithio'r bactyria Cyngoru Microbiota, yna thrym ni'n unwgr arall, arall y bateriau arall arlau. Felly, y prywodau a profiidau rhan o'r ynchynig gwybod a'r gweithredu bod lle a bydd hynny yn ysgrifennu i'r oedlu o'r llwyddoedd yn ein hwn. Gall wedi ei gwybod eich chylethau yng Nghyrch yn gweld eich cefnod, I filmed the content quite a while ago, but I'll put his name in the description and stuff. Fuck, I feel really bad now for not remembering. He's a really cool guy, he's doing his projects on these two pre-barthics and pro-barthics. He does a little introduction demonstration where he gave us samples of things that he brought in. Then after the presentation I asked him whether we could do a one-on-one interview where I asked him a few questions about his work that he's been doing and he asked me a few questions and we kind of converse a little bit. I think we had to shoot the whole interview twice, firstly because my iPad didn't record for a little bit because the storage was full up and so that was good preparation by my part and secondly because we wanted to make sure that he got all that he wanted to say and how he made sure that it didn't come out wrong or it didn't come across in a different way. You know how it is, you've got to shoot a few times just to make sure that the information is kind of fluent and flows. So before we get into the presentation and then the interview after I'm just going to give you a little bit of a lower down on some of the key terms that you need to know about pre-abotics and probiotics and then I'm going to just kick to a few where a few jugs. I am in the lab right now so this is why you can see a lab behind me, I don't know why I'm saying that. You can see, you can see it's different. As I said it was about six, seven months ago so you don't have any of this facial layer, you don't have this hair or anything so don't be surprised. So let's have a look on my trusty old laptop, make sure it's not in the shot there. So I'm just going to pull up some general information firstly. So firstly the English dictionary describes pre-abotics as a non-digestible food ingredient that promotes growth of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines. So probiotics are described as a microorganism introduced into the body for its beneficial qualities. Some of the more important and beneficial probiotic strains which are different species of bacteria be streptococcus, firmophilus, acyllus, lateral sphorus, there's many of these. I think I remember one of these in my personal probiotic intake. So the phidobacterium has got a few different ones of those but there are also strains that we want to avoid. The harmful bacteria are the bacteria that cause dysbiosis which means when they're the gut cell out of whack and all that. Metabolism has changed in the inflammation because it's generally not a good thing and there are links between inflammation and mental health. So I'm going to put the laptop down for a sec and I'll let you get on with the video because I don't want to spoil too much of the information. So yeah, I hope you enjoy this. This one, yes, orange, ginger, garlic. It's quite nice. It's not as strong as pink one. Pink one is strong. It's a different layer we added to it. It's steep, isn't it? Do you want to come through and just talk about it? It's not that nice watching your face through it. Like the way he's making it, isn't it? It's fun. I don't think that he's going through this as a diet. But yeah, there's no rush to get through anything. Yeah, just make sure that I'm clear and maybe less sciency. I've got Phil here today. He's a final year student studying biology, Spanish. So you've been to Spain, you've done a bit of research and you've decided that you wanted to do a media kind of base project. Yeah, I didn't like the love life. It wasn't really for me, so I'm much more interested in science communication. So Phil did a presentation earlier on today on prebiotics and probiotics and their implications on mental health. So he brought along quite a few samples of food and stuff for us to try, and he also gave us quite an in-depth kind of degree level presentation on and how it works and the mechanisms involved. So firstly, I'm Thomas from Aspergysgrove and I'm at the basis of my YouTube channels to improve people's awareness of autism. So that's to help people with autism to try and get tips and benefits and ways of coping with certain things that might have come across. So like social stuff to do with the media and also to do with like the health and stuff. I just want to ask firstly about the kind of motivation that you've had to do this topic because I realised that it's self-chosen. So you chose to do it yourself. Yes, to a degree, I guess. I'm very much interested in, you know, like yourself, mental health, psychology and neuroscience and stuff, and I kind of wanted to, I mean, I'm working on this project for a year, it's a long time, so I wanted to make it interesting for myself, so I wanted to incorporate as much of that stuff as possible into my project. The gut has been implicated in influencing brain function, like it's been shown to affect behaviour, cognition and mental health by a number of pathways that exist between the gut and the brain. So it seemed like a quite interesting area to get involved in. And it's really, really rapidly emerging as well, so it's the perfect opportunity for me to communicate this to an audience. So is there any reason that you were targeted mental health? There's quite a lot to do with the beast and gut health, as well as general health, physical health for health and cancer and stuff like that.  Well, personally, I've dealt with a lot of anxiety, so the interest is the purpose of self-development, partly, but I also think it's a very interesting subject in general, and something which is, you know, affecting more and more people. It's more and more people feeling more comfortable to work enough about certain mental health issues, and you realise the spectrum of how many people it can affect. There's a lot of people who are affected by mental health issues. Absolutely, and I mean, there's still that stigma there, isn't there? It needs to be taken more seriously. Helping people take action, improve their life, prove their condition, their state is, yeah, what I'm partly trying to do with this project, I guess, yeah. Before and after the presentation, we had to look at some of the food that you brought in, some of it Phil made himself, and some of it he bought from various food stores. So the first product that we've got here is a kombucha. Is there an origin to this kind of food, it's found in different parts of the world, it's a fermented tea product, so it consists of a kind of batch of beneficial bacteria in yeast, and this is mixed with the tea and bacteria from the tea, and they create this nice sour taste, and yeah, it's full of beneficial bacteria, full of probiotics, which have been implicated in physical as well as mental health. We've also got some other stuff, which is some more kind of stuff that you can bite into. There's got ginger and carrot, ginger and carrot here. I think this is the stuff that Phil made himself. Yeah, so this is all sauerkraut, this is fermented cabbage, and fermented cabbage is extremely boring, so I wanted to spice things up a little bit, so I used a number of ingredients to improve the appearance, make it look a bit more appetising, and improve the taste as well. They are very very tasty, I hope, so I'm going to be able to be true to the ginger and the garlic. Yeah, so I've got some ginger and carrot, that's all with the fermented cabbage. So is this cold sour sauerkraut? Yeah, it's very popular in Germany. Yeah, it's very sour. My taste buds are pretty selective, but I did find it quite nice. I mean, I was kind of expecting to have to sell it on the Saints rather than the taste, so I anticipate that. I made it as tasty as possible. So we've got this stuff here as well? It's called kefir yoghurt. Yeah, it's very much like yoghurt, like a drinkable yoghurt, and it actually contains kefir grains. You can buy kefir grains online, and these are symbionts of bacteria and yeast, beneficial bacteria and yeast, my little grains that you stick in there. Yeah, like the little cauliflower florets, and they ferment the lactose that's in the milk, and they produce wattyg acid, which gives you that sour taste. So again, they're full of wattyg acid bacteria, which are very beneficial for the good, inhibiting pathogens and keeping things healthy. So one thing that might be worth noting is that some people with autism or on the autism spectrum might have quite sensitive taste buds, so some of these foods might not be suitable for people to eat. So maybe they're trying to get you adolescent or children to eat this stuff. Maybe to improve their mental health might be quite difficult. But there are some other sources of probiotics that you can get. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's fair enough. You can get probiotics in capsule form as well as in your natural foods, and the benefits of the capsule-related foods are that they contain specific strains, which may have been shown to improve particular conditions. So it's good for if you're dealing with a health disorder condition in particular, you can research that area and find out which probiotic strains have the best potential for treating those conditions, and you can buy them in capsule form. You can sneak them into foods on detectable, and they can have their positive effects. There's one thing that I mentioned to you earlier about the chocolate biotic. Yeah, I haven't heard of that before actually. So yeah, basically they're little, little, sweety chocolate things, and they have these biotic cultures to do, to have improved and got health and stuff. I'm not sure whether it'll be as targeted towards mental health. I don't know whether the different strains are good for different things. Yes, that might be something to look into. Yeah, most regarding mental health, there are a number of communication pathways that exist between the gut and the brain, so it's generally for keeping the gut healthy can feed back on the brain. I know, for example, that there's an immune pathway on a healthy gut, very high in pathogenic bacteria as opposed to the beneficial probiotic bacteria that you find in fermented foods and the capsules, that causes inflammation within the gut, a lot of pathogenic bacteria causes inflammation within the gut, and inflammation is associated with a number of neurological conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD. Yeah, that's just one of the examples and through which improving the health of your gut can lower the levels of inflammation and help your mental health. Yeah, less inflammation is generally associated with better mental health, as well as physical health as well. So just as kind of a final question, can you give any advice on how maybe people with people in general can incorporate this stuff into their diet? Obviously, I'll leave some links about how Phil made his products and also maybe to the places that you can purchase these. So yeah, is there any advice that you can give about operating it? Well, I would say, you know, try the foods. To be fair, you know, fermented cabbage doesn't sound very appealing, but you can do a lot with it as I've been here. And kimchi is delicious. That's, you know, fermented cabbage with additional sauces, spices, vegetables. It's very popular in Korea, isn't it? Yeah, very popular in Korea. You can do a lot with sour carrots here to make it taste nice. So I would say experiment with some recipes. It's generally recommended to buy them from health food shops rather than supermarkets. Yeah, that's a good example. Regarding the foods, though, I mean, most supermarkets tend to pasteurize a lot of the food products, which kills off a lot of the beneficial bacteria. So you want to keep it as natural as possible. So I would say visit local health food shops, perhaps organic shops, and try up there, if not, order them online, have a go at making it yourself. And if you have the time, if you have the time. If you have the time, yeah. And if you don't mind your house stinking for the couple of days. But I think it's worth it, yeah. But I've tried some of them, and I definitely, I pretty like them. They were okay. Like I could have them on the side of some foods.  Every now and again, every now and again, a couple of spoonfuls of cell crout, a bit of yogi, you know, big loss of kombucha. Yeah, it could go a long way. So it talks a bit about how probiotics and prebiotics can help? Yeah, it's not mentioned prebiotics. So probiotics are beneficial microorganisms that you're consuming by implementing foods. Prebiotics are the indigestible sources of fiber. The pastoral, the stomach, without being broken down by the stomach acid, they pass through the gastrointestinal tract and they serve as a substrate for the beneficial bacteria, the probiotic bacteria to your ferment. And this ensures that they proliferate. You know, you're feeding the good bacteria essentially, and you're ensuring that they can proliferate and they can become permanent residents on the intestinal wall and continue to, you know, mediate positive effects for as long as possible. So that would one of the benefits would be to have this stuff, because you're getting some of the fiber from the cabbage as well. Yeah, I mean, absolutely, you can mix both. So for example, I've used a lot of garlic in my probiotic recipes, which are very rich in prebiotics or the sources of prebiotics. You know, quite commonly apples, bananas, onions, garlic as we've said, oats are very rich in fiber, adjustable fiber. So any of this kind of stuff, but it would also help with other aspects of diet. So maybe if your child's struggling to kind of get the amount of vitamins that they need in their diet, maybe they might be able to help with that. Absolutely, yeah, I mean, probiotic bacteria, they essentially pre-digest a lot of foods that you're eating, you know, so they enhance the nutrient acquisition, but consuming these foods, they're partly digested, you know, so you're getting more nutrients, more vitamins, more minerals and stuff. So yeah, it's very, very beneficial. Thank you very much for doing this interview. Very welcome. If you're wanting to get some more videos like this, where I talk to people from different kind of fields of research to do with helping with mental health, then give the video a thumbs up, subscribe and tap the bell in the corner if you want to see some notifications from later videos that I'll be uploading. So I've got some links in the description about the products that you can buy, and maybe some links to the instructions to make them. Anyway, thank you very much. You're very welcome. And hopefully I'll be able to talk to you later about the kind of research that you'd be doing. But yeah, if you're interested, I'd be here. I'd appreciate it.


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