[imc-st.louis] Fwd: Openings for the Beehive's MTR campaign!

[ben]

---THE BEEHIVE COLLECTIVE IS SEARCHING FOR NEW WORKER BEES!---

In anticipation of our most exciting and busy year to date, featuring
the launch of two new graphics campaigns, our swarm of eleven is in need
of five more workers.  We are currently seeking a few passionate and
committed organizers, educators, and artists to join us full-time in
Maine, at satellite Hive locations, and on the road, beginning as soon
as possible.

Please pass this note on to others who might be interested!

**********CURRENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE**********

- Archivist/Documentarian (Mountaintop Removal Mining campaign)
- Graphics Campaign Coordinator (Mesoamerica Resiste)
- Education Coordinator (Mountaintop Removal Mining campaign)
- Illustration Collaborator (pen & ink, Mountaintop Removal Mining
campaign)
- Distribution, Networking & "Pollination" Coordinator (core Hive
position)

Detailed descriptions at www.beehivecollective.org
<http://www.beehivecollective.org>


**********THE HIVE'S ALTERNATIVE TO SALARIES**********

In exchange for their efforts and commitment, all Bees, both full and
part time, are provided with (exceptionally amazing) food and housing
for the time they are involved, in Maine or on the road.  Indeed, this
does not cover other expenses that you may have such as healthcare or
debt, but we will support you in coming up with a work plan that can
address your specific needs.  Bees committed beyond six months are
eligible to receive Americorps benefits such as school debt deferment,
an education stipend and health care.  Thus far, we've found this
approach to be the best way for us to honor the work of each of us
equally, while avoiding dependency on unstable foundation funding.

**********ABOUT THE BEEHIVE**********

We are an all volunteer, non profit art-activist collective, dedicated
to making anti-copyright images for use as educational tools. Our
mission is to "cross-pollinate the grassroots."  We value collaborative
work, creative problem solving, and dismantling colonial mentality.  As
the bee metaphor dictates, we are endlessly busy in the effort to
illuminate the connections between single issues and the "big picture."
Our organism requires long hours, patience and a solid sense of humor,
but is consistently surprising, rewarding and personally transformative.

**********CURRENT CAMPAIGNS**********

*****MESOAMERICA RESISTE:  Now four years in the making and extensively
researched throughout the region, this project is focused on giving
voice to the many grassroots and community-based alternatives to the
Plan Puebla Panama (PPP). The PPP is a massive trade corridor and
industrial development plan that would span southern Mexico, Central
America, and Colombia. Unprecedented in scale and sold by its designers
as a regional integration plan, the PPP is actually an acceleration of
five hundred years of colonialism and genocide founded on racism,
military occupation, short-term consumerism, and foreign control of land
and resources.

Depicted by the Beehive as an elaborate pen and ink drawing, with over
450 distinct species of plant and animals, Mesoamerica Resiste is in the
homestretch of completion. In many ways, when this illustration hatches,
our work will have just begun.  To release this graphic into the world
and
ensure that it returns to the region to serve as a participatory tool
for resistance movements, we are seeking a CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR. This
person would join our team as soon as possible, for part-time for
training in Toronto (or possibly Philadelphia), full-time work through
the summer in Maine, and touring in the Fall.


*****MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING (MTR): With support from the Provisions
Library for Art & Social Change, and collaboration from the grassroots
groups Rising Tide and Mountain Justice Summer, the Hive has
enthusiastically agreed to pursue a campaign illuminating the most
extreme form of surface mining for coal. With this new campaign we hope
to further develop our image-based storytelling methods to cross
domestic geographical, class, and literacy barriers. We intend to
produce a learning tool that artfully captures the human and ecological
scale of shortsighted resource extraction, while participating in the
rich storytelling tradition of Appalachia. This project has an very
tight deadline, with the illustration component going to print in
August.

For the MTR campaign we are seeking multiple roles: an EDUCATION
COORDINATOR, DOCUMENTARIAN/ARCHIVIST, and an ILLUSTRATION COLLABORATOR.
These three folks would join us on the road this Spring, at our Hive in
Maine in the Summer, and possibly tour with the finished graphics
campaign in the Fall. We intend for this project to be the first of many
graphics campaigns focused on Climate Change issues.


**********HOW TO APPLY**********

More information about each of these roles is currently on the front
page of our website.  We'll be filling these positions by early March,
so it's
best to get in touch immediately if you're interested.  Write or email
us
a letter of introduction using our "20 Questions" as a guide. Call us at
(207) 669-4117 and we'll mail you a hard copy, or check out
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/wbee_twentyq.htm

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the beehive design collective
www.beehivecollective.org <http://www.beehivecollective.org>
bees at beehivecollective.org <mailto:bees at beehivecollective.org>
3 elm st | machias maine | 04654
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-- 
Ben West
westbywest at riseup.net
http://savetheinternet.org