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What do you get when you cross Borat with Michael Moore? You get The Yes Men, a team of prankster-activists who have become infamous for "stealing" the identity of corporations and using the media to make ironic and outrageous announcements in the companies' names.
The Yes Men are Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum who, along with a largely unnamed army of helpers, stage politically-charged pranks meant to reveal the greed and hypocrisy of a market-driven culture. The two are stars of a new film called The Yes Men Fix the World, in which they document the political and corporate hacks they've staged.
And they've staged some doozies, the latest of which saw The Yes Men hit with a lawsuit by the US Chamber of Commerce after hosting a fake press conference in Washington, DC, where they posed as Chamber representatives and said the business group was reversing its controversial stance on climate change legislation.
The stunt was nothing compared to what's probably The Yes Men's best-known action: posing in 2004 on the BBC as representatives from Dow Chemical and taking full responsibility for the Union Carbide tragedy in Bhopal, India — one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Dow quickly denied the story, but the company's stock took a $2 billion hit.
The Chamber and Dow episodes are just two of the hilarious and thought-provoking moments in The Yes Men Fix the World, a fascinating, funny and inspiring film. We can only imagine how the Chamber of Commerce situation will play out in their next movie.
Despite a very busy week lawsuit and film opening, Tonic caught up with Mike Bonanno for a quick interview as he drove from Maine to Boston.
Read the full interview on Tonic:
http://www.tonic.com/article/the-yes-men/What do you get when you cross Borat with Michael Moore? You get The Yes Men, a team... more
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The Yes Men screen their film "The Yes Men fix the World" and their audience, along with Green Party candidate Billy Talen, go to INS to attempt to levitate the building and move it into the harbor next to the Statue of Liberty.
Homeland Security comes by to see what the hell is going on...The Yes Men screen their film "The Yes Men fix the World" and their... more
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Grist interviews the high-minded pranksters, The Yes Men, about runaway climate change, getting arrested, civil disobedience and their film, The Yes Men Fix the World, which comes out on October 7th.
Fun Facts: The Yes Men launched 22 survivaballs into the East River to reach world leaders at the U.N. during climate talks last week. One was arrested and held in jail for 26 hours. They printed fake newspapers and distributed them across New York City with headlines screaming out the effects of climate change.
To learn more and about BeyondTalk and to sign up for what The Yes Men are hoping will be the largest international climate civil disobedience action of all time , click here - http://www.beyondtalk.net/
More about their film, The Yes Men Fix the World - http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/Grist interviews the high-minded pranksters, The Yes Men, about runaway climate... more
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After last night's showing of the new Yes Men film, a crowd of moviegoers stormed over to the Whole Foods on Houston Street and staged their own protest against corporations and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.
Check out the photos below of the typical Yes Men-tinged mayhem:After last night's showing of the new Yes Men film, a crowd of moviegoers stormed... more
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