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

[Joe Futrelle]

I'll ask the Greens.

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Joe Futrelle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:53:09 -0500
> To: peace at anti-war.net
> 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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