09/15/2026
For weeks now, members of various Garífuna communities have held an encampment in front of the Supreme Court building in Honduras. They need our solidarity (learn more: https://linktr.ee/beehivedesigncollective).
This encampment comes in response to an incident on July 6 where over 200 National Police evicted Garifuna people from their land, using tear gas, firing live am******on, and arresting five land defenders. This is a decades-long conflict, where the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people have been organizing against illegal land sales to international (mainly from Canada and the US) tourist entities in their territory.
Their struggle is illustrated in our graphic “MesoAmérica Resiste.”
In this image, a cruise ship with elements of a naval landing carrier is invading the coast of Honduras. The billboards reflect how the tourists (the wind-up chattering teeth) view this region: the Disney-fication of sacred sites, the infrastructure catered to their entertainment, and the local Garifuna people working as menial workers and entertainers.
Behind the billboard, the real Garifuna are keeping their heritage and resistance alive. They are blowing a conch shell to represent the telling of their histories and beating their drums as a protest tactic. In doing so, they are blasting away the image of themselves as menial workers thankful for the tourism industry, to reveal a people fighting for land rights and recognition.
