Beehive Collective on a Swarm (in the Bay, too!)

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DEAR FRIENDS AND ALLIES....

The Bees are on tour this Spring!

Warm greetings from the Beehive Collective--
We hope this note finds you well and inspired for the New Year...

We Bees are currently plotting our 2009 tour schedule,and we'd
LOVE to collaborate with you to organize a Beehive presentation
in your area. Read on for more information, or jump to sections
in this email using the links to the right.

IN SEARCH OF WORKERBEES
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This Spring, we are also seeking qualified, committed
collaborators to join our organization and work with us on our
Mesoamerica Resiste Graphics Campaign and Maine Outreach &
Machias Valley Grange Hall Project.

Visit the Wannabees Page
[http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/wbee_newroles.htm]"
section of our website to learn more about these opportunities
to join forces with the Hive!

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS ON TOUR
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On tour with giant, portable murals, the Bees use art as a tool
for popular analysis, education and organizing. We offer a
variety of high energy, interactive, graphic-based picture
-lectures that speak to the overwhelming and complex picture of
globalization, militarization, and resource extraction, as well
as the small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build
another world.

The Beehive's innovative, arts-based education strategy can
benefit your community, school, or organization by provoking
discussion, raising hard questions, and offering a hopeful story
in an era of too much bad news.

We can work with you to craft a Beehive presentation that meets
your group's needs. Please see below for details about different
options for booking the Bees, and know that we can be flexible
and adapt to your venue! If you are interested in collaborating,
or if you know someone else who might be, please read on and be
in touch....

Please visit our tour SCHEDULE
[http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/tour.htm]for current
dates.

NOW BOOKING: SPRING TOUR 2009

Picture-lectures and workshops to be understood by anyone - not
just the experts and political analysts! JOIN IN as we de
-construct the complex and overwhelming issues that are shaping
our world, using bio-regionally accurate depictions of animals
and insects as metaphors to link cultural and ecological
diversity.

MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL

the true cost of coal

Long exploited as a resourcce-extraction colony within the US,
the Appalachian Mountains are home to a fight for survival whose
outcome will determine in part the industrial power ofthis
country. Without coal, there would be no 'cheap' electricity.
Today's energy corporations and government bodies are continuing
to show the extent of their violence and greed as they push
their extractive agendas in the "New Coal Rush."

Our insatiable demand for cheap power has lead to the most
extreme, devastating form of coal mining yet, Mountaintop
Removal (MTR). The TRUE COST OF COAL graphic uses MTR in
Appalachia as a lens through which to understand the historical
and contemporary story of ENERGY, RESOURCE EXTRACTION and of
AMERICAN EMPIRE accelerating throughout the world. We will
expose the DECEPTIONS of CLEAN COAL technologies and bring to
light the ensuing CLIMATE CHAOS facing the world today.

With a gigantic portable mural-in-process teeming with intricate
images of plants and animals from the most bio-diverse temperate
forest on the planet, the Bees will share (and seek) stories of
how coal mining and Mountaintop Removal affect communities and
ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond.

This graphic also looks to the future, raising questions about
resistance, regeneration, and remediation while celebrating
stories of struggle from mountain communities. The TRUE COST OF
COAL will challenge all of us who casually flip on a light
switch to examine our own connections to MTR- and to think about
what we can do to stop it from within our own communities.

Learn more about this graphics campaign-in-process as it unfolds
at: beehivecollective.blogspot.com
[http://beehivecollective.blogspot.com.]



DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE

Tales of Ants & Economies in the Americas

(Esta presentación está disponible EN ESPAÑOL)

As a friend and supporter of the Beehive, you may be familiar
with the first two works in our trilogy about globalization in
the Americas, the FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS and PLAN
COLOMBIA campaigns. (not familiar? click a title to learn more)

This narrative weaves together images from the Beehive
Collective's Graphic Trilogy focused on corporate globalization
in the Americas. With giant portable murals the Bees take
audiences on an interactive VISUAL tour of the connections
between COLONIZATION, MILITARIZATION, and RESOURCE EXTRACTION
disguised as "industrial development."

For the past several years, Bees have been touring the Americas
and Europe with these two graphics in tandem. With two giant
illustrated portable murals, a six foot tall fabric storybook,
and an engaging narrative, the Bees have awed and inspired
audiences across the hemispheres.

The 2009 version will also include previews of scenes from
MESOAMERICA RESISTE, the final epic chapter in the trilogy, our
most ambitious and elaborate illustration to date...5 YEARS in
the making and nearly hatched!

MESOAMERICA RESISTE

This graphic, currently under construction, is the third and
final in the Beehive's trilogy on globalization in the Americas.
The intricate map of images is focused on Mexico and Central
America as a means of telling a larger story about, COLONIZATION
, GLOBAL ECONOMY and MEGA-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT projects.

Like it's global counterparts, Project Mesoamerica (formerly
"Plan Puebla Panama") aims to colonize and transform the land
from Mexico to Colombia in the interest of building
infrastructure to facilitate resource extraction and "efficient"
global trade routes…just as early European monarchies set out to
do 500 years ago.

The title 'Mesoamerica Resiste' reflects our efforts to document,
illustrate, and share stories of grassroots movements working to
oppose top-down development through horizontal community based
organizing, as well as to honor the incredible Mesoamerican
biodiversity threatened by this plan.

Featuring over 300 distinct species of plants and animals,
Mesoamerica Resiste! is by far and away our most ambitious and
elaborate illustration to date.

With the final stages of inking and printing yet-to-be completed,
the Mesoamerica Resiste! graphic is on the road as a 'picture
-lecture' or 'workshop' using bite-size pieces of the immensely
detailed graphic narrative in a slideshow format.



Polinations/Polinizaciones

(Esta presentación está disponible EN ESPAÑOL)

Polinizaciones is a grassroots collaboration between communities,
pollinator bees, activists ants, and collectives in Colombia,
Ecuador and Venezuela.



Throughout Abya Yala (South America), Beehive graphics are being
used by youth and community educators in Indigenous, Afro
descendent, campesino, and urban poor communities as a medium
for dialogue and raising consciousness around the current
threats against these communities. The work of Polinizaciones
creates another way to converse, as well as to build and
understand our history in the context of globalization, Plan
Colombia, Free Trade, IIRSA-Plan Puebla Panama and corporate
colonization.

This spring, a recently-returned South American Bee is heading
out on an Atlantic Coast Tour, sharing the work of
Polinizaciones. The bilingual Reportback will highlight the
Beehive's giant Plan Colombia banner, enriched with projected
photographs, audio recordings of interviews and music, and
personal experiences and stories about the communities in
resistance we have been weaving relations of mutual aid with
over the last two years.

Kicking off in late February 2009, the tour will cover the
Atlantic Coast from Miami, FL to Machias, ME, making stops at
community spaces, universities, high schools, cultural centers
and other spaces interested in Polinizaciones.

The Polinizaciones Atlantic Coast tour is especially committed to
sharing these Southern Winds of Resistance with immigrant and
communities of color and is excited at the opportunity to be
able to do presentations in Español.

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POLINIZACIONES NORTEAMERICA

GIRA POR LA COSTA ATLANTICA / NUEVA YORK / ONTARIO / QUEBEC

En vuelo, acompañadas por los telones gigantes, las Abejas buscan
ilustrar las conexiones entre la historia colonial y las
realidades actuales de las luchas contra la globalización
transnacional, la violencia y el racismo. La Colmena, que está
integrada por abejas voluntarias, hace obras gráficas sin
derechos de autor que se usan como herramientas para promover el
análisis, la educación y la organización popular. Nuestras
presentaciones y talleres están hechos en un formato accesible y
tratan sobre cómo desarmar y mejor entender la extracción de los
recursos naturales, la militarización y el desarrollo industrial
en las Américas, sus interconexiones y su vínculo con procesos
mucho más grandes.

Polinizaciones se basa en el trabajo colaborativo entre abejas
polinizadoras, hormigas activistas y colectivos en Colombia,
Ecuador y Venezuela.

En distintas regiones de Abya Yala (Suramérica), las obras
gráficas de la Colmena están siendo utilizadas por jóvenes y
docentes de comunidades Indígenas, Afrodescendientes, Campesinos
y Urbanos Populares como un medio para crear dialogo y
concientización alrededor de las amenazas que rodean a estas
comunidades. Usando las obras de la Colmena además de otros
medios comunicativos, el trabajo de Polinizaciones busca crear
espacios en donde se puede conversar, construir y entender mejor
nuestras historias en el contexto de la globalización, del Plan
Colombia, de los Tratados de Libre Comercio, del IIRSA-Plan
Puebla Panamá y de la transnacionalización.

Esta gira trae a una Abeja Suramericana recién llegada a
Norteamérica estará compartiendo el trabajo de Polinizaciones.
El informe bilingüe presentará el telón de Plan Colombia y
enriquecido con la proyección de fotografías, grabaciones de
audio de entrevistas y música, y las experiencias personales y
las historias de las diferentes comunidades en resistencia con
quien hemos tejido relaciones de apoyo mutuo en estos últimos
dos años.

Tomando vuelo a finales de Febrero 2009, esta abeja migrará por
la costa Atlántica de Miami, Florida, hasta Machias, Maine,
aterrizando en espacios comunitarios, universidades, colegios,
centros culturales y otros sitios interesados en el trabajo de
Polinizaciones.

Esta gira de Polinizaciones por la Costa Atlántica Norteamericana
está particularmente interesada en compartir con comunidades
Afrodescendientes, Indígenas e Inmigrantes y nos encantaría la
oportunidad de realizar presentaciones en Español.

¡INVITA A LAS ABEJAS!


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Workerbee Openings
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True Cost of COAL Campaign BLOG
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