activism film

The Yes Men fix the world

Among the more bizarre anti-globalization documentaries of recent years is The Yes Men. It follows a group of activist pranksters who set up gatt.org, a website that bears a passing similarity to the World Trade Organisation site. When gullible people got in touch and invited someone from the WTO to speak at their corporate conferences, they obliged.

The Yes Men succeed by giving the corporate world enough rope to hang themselves with. When they posed as Dow Chemicals and announced on the BBC news that Dow would finally take responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, the market responded by slashing $2 billion from Dow’s share price – exposing their preference for profits over people in the process.

Anyway, they’re back, and The Yes Men fix the world hits the UK in early August. Here’s the trailer:

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