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Help Wanted at the Hive


- US -

We are a collectively run, non-profit graphics workshop based in Eastern Maine.

We are active in our local community as well as the international global justice movement.

Our base is the small coastal town of Machias, the hub of a large, sparsely populated county with a strong class consciousness and tradition of self reliance.

We own and operate a hundred year old Grange, formally a farmer's meeting hall, rich in the history of the populist movement's legacy of agricultural and community organizing.

We are all volunteers.

Our food is collectively prepared and acquired by work trade with local organic farmers.

We are mostly women, and queers, that value building self/esteem and dismantling art-ego as we reject the ART world… considering ourselves to be anti-copyright cultural workers.

Most of us are focused on sustainability issues and self employment, while all of us are dreaming of revolution.

The Beehive Collective is decentralized geographically, you need not move to Machias to join forces with us!

- YOU -

Are anxious for a healthy, non-hierarchical workplace to carve out a space for yourself and your projects based on your own inspiration, physical labor, and self motivation.

 

Workerbee Roles

  • graphics campaign organizers to become involved in our international grassroots efforts
  • collaborators for popular education and teachers cirriculum materials
  • distribution coordinator for posters, t/shirts, coloring books and other materials
  • building restoration and construction coordinators
  • amateur entomologists or botanists for mural and graphics design research
  • multi media archivists
  • wholefoods cooks
  • gardeners/landscapers
  • illustrators


Do You Love Puzzles and Hate Capitalism?

...The Beehive's Stone Mosaic apprenticeship program...
Using the ancient medium of handcrafted stone mosaic, our major project is a public mural illustrating the political history of agriculture with insects and plants. Design and construction will be underway for the next five or more years. This monumental installation will live permanently at the Maine Organics Fairgrounds, a landmark in the Northeastern U.S.

We are sharing this trade skill, with other activists throughout the process of this collaborative, graphic, political organizing campaign.

A commitment of 4 months is appropriate but flexible...