[Peace-discuss] RE: [Peace] On bringing the Beehive Collective to
C-U:
visual+spoken arts, collectively assembled, explaining complex issues:
"Free Trade", globalization, biotechnology...
Joe Futrelle
futrelle at shout.net
Sun Oct 12 22:08:20 CDT 2008
I'll ask the Greens.
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Joe Futrelle
person
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:53:09 -0500
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> Subject: [Peace] On bringing the Beehive Collective to C-U: visual+spoken
> arts, collectively assembled, explaining complex issues: "Free Trade",
> globalization, biotechnology...
>
> The Beehive Collective
>
> http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm
>
> brings together visual arts and verbal ones, interviewing people
> who represent many facets of a complex problem -- they've worked
> on biotechnology, on globalization, on the Free Trade Area of the
> Americas (FTAA) agreement and its implications...
>
> They create giant posters and narratives to make the issues
> compelling and understandable. They're working on a new project
> (see below) and doing a national fundraising tour to support it.
>
> Beth Simpson is trying to bring them here to C-U, which can happen
> if a handful of groups can be found to support the visit. AWARE agreed
> tonight, pending confirmation at next week's meeting, to offer $50.
>
> They might be in C-U Nov 12th or 13th or so. (I *hope* they can
> avoid the 13th, as that would collide with the IVAW Winter Soldier
> events previously scheduled.)
>
> They like bees. And activist ants. Take a look at their web site.
> Their art is anti-copyrighted, available to all.
>
> Their current project is:
>
> Mesoamérica Resiste
> Plan Puebla Panamá
>
> http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/ppp.htm
>
> Plan Puebla Panamá encompasses a wide range of projects designed
> to facilitate the exploitation of resources in Mesoamérica, and
> to transform areas of its land to create more "efficient" trade
> routes for global markets. Mexico and Central America is the isthmus
> linking North and South America between the Atlantic and Pacific
> Oceans. This region is extremely rich in resources, especially
> farmland, forests, fossil fuels, biodiversity, and human labor.
> Disguised as a development project by its funding institutions,
> such as the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank,
> the PPP offers these resources up to transnational corporations.
> [...]
>
>
> Apparently they've been here once before, in 2002-3, and presented
> at School for Designing a Society and the IMC.
>
>
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