The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork “quilts” of personal stories related to them in their travels by communities in the global south. In their incendiary “Plan Colombia” presentation, the bees take participants on a “tour” through a larger than life graphic narrative of the multifold effects of globalization and “drug war” policies in Andean region of Colombia. Interweaving anecdotes and statistics, they perforate dubious “drug war” rhetoric and expose broad connections between militarism and resource extraction.

The Beehive Collective is currently touring the United States to raise funds for the printing and distribution of their trilogy finale graphic. Two years in the making, “Mesoamerica Resisté” will be an exploration of widespread community resistance to a proposed Central American mega development project known as Plan Puebla Panama. For more information visit www.beehivecollective.org.