Meso America Resiste! Beehive Collective Presentation
Come see the Beehive Design Collective’s new campaign, Mesoamerica Resiste! in Textor Hall Room 102 Tuesday October 8th at 7 PM!
The Beehive Design Collective, a non-profit arts and activism organization dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots”, is headed this way to share their recently completed work, Mesoamérica Resiste. The event is free and open to the public.
The Beehive is an all-volunteer swarm of educators, artists, and activists using images to communicate and educate about the complex realities of our times. The dizzyingly detailed, hand-drawn, large-format posters and banners they tour with are portable murals that come alive through storytelling, illuminating how single issues are interconnected and part of bigger systems. Join in as the Bees deconstruct often overwhelming global issues in an accessible and engaging picture-lecture presentation.
Mesoamérica Resiste is the final installment in a trilogy of graphics that began with posters about Free Trade and the Drug War, and reflects the bees’ efforts to go beyond illustrating just the bad news to also sharing stories of grassroots organizing, collective action, and inspiration. 
The double-sided poster explores the legacy of colonialism in the Americas and the impact of industrial development plans and resource extraction today. It highlights many examples of resistance and alternatives to these plans throughout the region, especially organizing led by indigenous peoples. Celebrating the ecological diversity of Mesoamerica is also a goal of this graphics campaign; its cast of characters includes hundreds of endemic, endangered, and requested species of insects, animals and plants.
