Check out the video recording from the April 27 Commonwealth Club event that I'd mentioned in this previous blog post, with The Yes Men. Awesome!
Showing posts with label The Yes Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Yes Men. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
"The Yes Men" are coming to San Francisco - April 27
Ha! If you're in San Francisco ... I bet this is going to be a good one! I've previously blogged about The Yes Men here.
TUESDAY 4.27 @ the Commonwealth Club - THE YES MEN
Andy Bichlbaum, Leading Member of The Yes Men
Mike Bonanno, Leading Member of The Yes Men
Bichlbaum and Bonanno pose as top-notch representatives for large corporations and nations…yes, nations. At the Copenhagen Climate Conference last December, The Yes Men delivered a faux press release claiming Canada was reversing its position on climate change. And how can one forget the jaw-dropping statements made by "spokesperson for Dow Chemical" accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal disaster on worldwide news station BBC? Needless to say, they have a knack for striking chords of condemnation and admiration, stimulating polar perspectives simultaneously. Their latest documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, has been hailed as "a riotous reminder that patriotism is often misconstrued as troublemaking." Get a load of The Yes Men.
Time: 7 p.m. check-in and networking reception, 7:30 p.m. program
Cost: $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Purchase your advance tickets here.
Check out the trailer for "The Yes Men Fix the World" here -
TUESDAY 4.27 @ the Commonwealth Club - THE YES MEN
Andy Bichlbaum, Leading Member of The Yes Men
Mike Bonanno, Leading Member of The Yes Men
Bichlbaum and Bonanno pose as top-notch representatives for large corporations and nations…yes, nations. At the Copenhagen Climate Conference last December, The Yes Men delivered a faux press release claiming Canada was reversing its position on climate change. And how can one forget the jaw-dropping statements made by "spokesperson for Dow Chemical" accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal disaster on worldwide news station BBC? Needless to say, they have a knack for striking chords of condemnation and admiration, stimulating polar perspectives simultaneously. Their latest documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, has been hailed as "a riotous reminder that patriotism is often misconstrued as troublemaking." Get a load of The Yes Men.
Time: 7 p.m. check-in and networking reception, 7:30 p.m. program
Cost: $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Purchase your advance tickets here.
Check out the trailer for "The Yes Men Fix the World" here -
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Yes Men's Coca-Cola Pledge @ COP15
On Friday night The Yes Men pulled another great stunt, this time in Copenhagen @ the City Hall Square. Two "Coca-Cola employees" disgusted with their employer's environmental and human rights abuses, spoke out -
This statement is based on very real environmental and human rights abuses perpetrated by Coca-Cola including:
Columbia - Coca-Cola partnered with paramilitary death squads to murder trade union activists at Coca-Cola's bottling plants from 1990 to 2002.
India - while Coca-Cola bottles leave the plant by the truckload, 70% of the country's residents who depend on agriculture for their livelihood trek up to 3 miles to obtain drinkable water. Coca-Cola has been offering the cadmium, lead and chromium-contaminated waste from its plant as "free fertilizer" to local farmers, thereby contaminating their crops.
photo: these ads are up in Copenhagen
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