The Beehive Design Collective:

The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly-motivated, all-volunteer, activist art collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. [They] work anonymously as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, gathered through conversations with affected communities.

Since 2000, [they] have disseminated more than 150,000 posters throughout the Americas, entirely by grassroots, hand-to-hand distribution! [Their] graphics have tackled issues from globalization, trade, and resource extraction, to energy, biotechnology, and climate change.

[They] strive to create holistic and accessible images that inspire critical thought and strategic action.

[This exhibit is a] narrative tour through the Beehive’s first large scale graphics campaign, the beginning of a trilogy of graphics about corporate globalization in the Americas that was followed by Plan Colombia (2002) and Mesoamérica Resiste (2013)...

All images and accompanying text displayed within this exhibit, minus this paragraph, were created by the Beehive Design Collective. All text, images, and other source files associated with this project may be used freely under Creative Commons licensing. Files are located at the Free Trade Area of the Americas... record page in Digital Commons. Additional information about this campaign and other Beehive projects can be found in the Beehive Design Collective Collection at Digital Commons. More information about the Beehive Design Collective can also be found at their website, www.beehivecollective.org.