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

[Barbara kessel]

i will ask Jobs with Justice when they meet the fourth Saturday of the
month. Barbara Kessel

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Joe Futrelle <futrelle at shout.net> wrote:

> I'll ask the Greens.
>
> --
> Joe Futrelle
> person
>
>
> > -----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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