[Peace] On bringing the Beehive Collective to C-U: visual+spoken arts, collectively assembled, explaining complex issues: "Free Trade", globalization, biotechnology...

[Stuart Levy]

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.