The Yes Men on Arte, when it does not, it does not!

[clasou]

Hello for those who have not seen, join a little the subject on indignant.
Well apparently, it dates from 2009, but I had never heard of it.
To see
http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/les_yes ... 90800.html

a + claude

[the middle]

Super Clasou,
I took the time to watch the whole video, 1h30.
To summarize:
Two fellows with dinosaur balls manage to make hoaxes which aim, for example to awaken common sense.
Make believe that exon mobil will compensate the poor people of Bopal, and decontaminate everything (result, billions of losses for exon, on the stock market)
To make believe that the government will return the stolen social houses to the people of Louisiana, and will solve the problems of floods,
After the Obama booth election, they printed a fake Newyork Time, full of dreams; the real dreams of the Americans.
They are strong!
If you have time, it's better than TV fiction.

[clasou]

Hello fair,
It is true that they must dare, after looking on the internet.
They have a site and apparently there are around 300 "impostors".
Remains to be seen for me which are in French.

Proof if there is, that you dress a celebrity in tramp, everyone turns their heads, does the opposite and everyone moves to listen.

In addition to news with the crisis, and the future election.
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[Christophe]

Not yet seen the doc Arte but it is true that they are strong ... but too little known in France (the fault with Sarko?)

Here are some of their (ex) actions at the UMP or on Sarko:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/le-pacte-e ... t3414.html
https://www.econologie.com/forums/les-yes-me ... t4830.html
https://www.econologie.com/forums/cavada-vra ... t3548.html

Then on warming:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/geoingenie ... 70-60.html

[Christophe]

I just watched the entire doc "The Yes Men remake the world" ... in fact there are only ... 2!

But to get to do what they do, they need, in addition to courage, ideas, and motivation, a lot of "logistical" (and financial) support ...

3 of their biggest blows presented in the report:

a) In 2004: bogus interview on BBC World pretending to be DOW's spokesperson about the Bhopal disaster in 1984. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI

b) In 2005: after Katrina in New Orleans, they pretend to be an adviser to the Minister of Housing and announce a lot of (false) measures for social housing

c) In 2008: distribution of a "real fake" New York Times about a better world, even the advertisements of which are "modified"
http://laughingsquid.com/the-yes-men-di ... -war-ends/
http://www.diver-city.be/2008/11/un-fau ... n-ont.html
Official website: http://www.nytimes-se.com/

After all this, it is even astonishing that they are not prosecuted ... in 2004 the DoW action had fallen causing the group to lose 2 billion for a while ... It is not a small damage but the lawyers of their " targets "may prefer to do nothing so as not to spread the word (fair and justified) of the Yes Men even more?!?

Here is their Wiki page: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

Doc Trailer: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xahssw ... ce-soir_tv

Each time the message goes to a more human, less selfish, less ultra-capitalist world ... in short, more responsible!

Their philosophy clearly joins that of the shock strategy: https://www.econologie.com/forums/la-strateg ... 11301.html !

[Christophe]

This is what the Yes Men could have also denounced: https://www.econologie.com/forums/film-docum ... 11332.html