The Yes Men Are Revolting
Die Yes Men haben vor ein paar Stunden die Kickstarter-Kampagne zu ihrer dritten Doku gestartet: The Yes Men Are Revolting. Ist nach ihren beiden vorangegangenen Dokus für mich Pflichtprogramm.
The Yes Men Are Revolting completes a trilogy of funny feature docs we started a decade ago. In our first film, The Yes Men (2004), we posed as spokespeople for the World Trade Organization, acting out comedic vigilante justice against the elite. In The Yes Men Fix the World (2009), we delivered a bunch of hard-hitting, hilarious stunts that show why we must change our corporations-first system, and what’s in store if we don’t. The Yes Men Are Revolting will be even more jam-packed with screwball comedy, nail-biting suspense, nasty stings, and informative documentary. It’ll also have a gripping personal storyline the first two films lacked—as well as a human-staffed platform to convert viewer enthusiasm into direct action, letting everyone join in the fun and contribute to the movement for change.
Kickstarter: The Yes Men Are Revolting, hier die Facebook-Seite zur Revolution (via Animal NY)
The Yes Men on doing Public Relations
Schöner neuer Clip aus der kommenden Arte-Doku Everyday Rebellion. Diesmal erklären die Yes Men, wie man anständige PR betreibt.
The world-famous detractors of globalization named Yes Men from the United States have already embarrassed some major corporations with their anarchist and subversive activism. One of their creative methods of nonviolent resistance is to deliberately mislead the mainstream media. Group members like to adopt certain roles of representatives of international corporations and to caricature their goals in conferences exaggerating with their claims. They refer to this method as “identity correction”.
Creative Rebellion: The Yes Men
Tolle Webserie von Arte Creative namens Creative Rebellion, schönes Promo-Tool für die kommende Doku Everyday Rebellion „über die Macht des gewaltlosen Widerstands und neue Formen des zivilen Ungehorsams in einer Zeit des globalen Umbruchs. Der Film von Arman und Arash T. Riahi ist zur Zeit in Produktion und wird voraussichtlich Ende 2013 auf ARTE zu sehen sein.“ Oben die erste Folge mit Andy Bichlbaum von den Yes Men. Mag ich alles sehr, sehr, sehr gerne. Toll.
The world-famous detractors of globalization named Yes Men from the United States have already embarrassed some major corporations with their anarchist and subversive activism. One of their creative methods of nonviolent resistance is to deliberately mislead the mainstream media. Group members like to adopt certain roles of representatives of international corporations and to caricature their goals in conferences exaggerating with their claims. They refer to this method as “identity correction”.
Fight like the Yes Men and avoid going to jail! (via Rebelart)
The Bankster ist not a Yes Man and Goldman Sachs rules the world
(Youtube Direkthoax, via Dangerous Minds)
Heute ist etwas ganz interessanes passiert. Die BBC hatte gestern ein Interview mit einem Mann namens Alessio Rastani, einem Trader an der Londoner Börse und der war im Interview so dermaßen ehrlich, dass sehr schnell Gerüchte die Runde machten, er wäre einer der Yes Men, einer Truppe, die sich auf Konferenzen und in Interviews einschleicht um absurdeste Statements abzugeben, damit haben sie Bhopal mal um ein paar Millarden Dollar leichter gemacht.
Jedenfalls, die Leute dachten, Rastani währe einer von ihnen, unter anderem befeuert von Meldungen auf Reuters, im Guardian, auf Forbes. Aber er ist keiner und die Yes Men gaben vor ein paar Stunden folgendes Statement raus: Rastani is not in Liberty Plaza.
We’ve never heard of Rastani. Despite widespread speculation, he isn’t a Yes Man. He’s a real trader who is, for one reason or another, being more honest than usual. Who in big banking doesn’t bet against the interests of the poor and find themselves massively recompensed—if not by the market, then by humongous taxpayer bailouts? Rastani’s approach has been completely mainstream for several years now; we must thank him for putting a human face on it yesterday.
Die Situation ist also folgende: Die Wirtschaft geht mal wieder auf Sturzflug, ein Bankster sag einmal im Fernsehen deutlich die Wahrheit und alle halten genau das für einen Witz, einen Streich, so dass sich die echten Prankster zu einem Statement genötigt sehen. Ich finde das, so insgesamt, ziemlich bemerkenswert.
The Yes Men Fix The World – Special Peer-2-Peer-Edition
(Youtube Direktyes, via Popkontext, danke Nils!)
Die Yes Men geben ihre Doku „The Yes Men Fix The World“ für lau als Torrent weg und haben eine besondere Szene für das US Chamber of Commerce eingebaut, weil die sie vor ein paar Monaten vor Gericht gezerrt haben. Die Yes Men machen satirische Beiträge in Form von Corporate Fakes, bauen Fake-Websites oder geben sich als Unternehmensvertreter aus um zum Beispiel in einem Vortrag Energie aus toten Menschen vorzustellen… was sich die anwesenden Businesskasper interessiert anhörten und unbedingt mehr wissen wollten.
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. This peer-to-peer special edition of the film is unique: it is preceded by an EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce. Because the Yes Men are being sued for this stunt, p2p is the only way that this film will get seen. Please spread the word!
Der Download der Doku hat bei mir grade ungefähr 10 Minuten gedauert und ich seede das gute Stück noch eine Weile, auf der Website zur Aktion rufen die Yes Men zu Spenden auf für kommende subversive Businesskasperverarschungen.
We have been impersonating people in power in to make political points for over a decade. The Yes Men Fix the World is our second feature film. It’s won a bucket of awards and accolades, but we’re still broke. We are hoping that people who share it will donate some money so that we can do even more outrageous actions.
How outrageous? Outrageous enough to get us sued! Not long ago The US Chamber of Commerce took us to court for impersonating them. That is why on this special p2p version of the Yes Men Fix the World, we have included an exclusive video that the US Chamber of Commerce does not want you to see. You can only see this surprising film on the exclusive VODO p2p release.
One final note: making films takes lots of hard work. And money. We busted our asses to make this film and still owe our friends barrels of cash they loaned us. By supporting us and joining the Yes Men Labs, you not only get a membership card and an entry into the prize draw, you also help us to pay all those people back and fund future projects. We’re sharing by P2P because we made this film to be watched, and with your help we’ll able to carry on with what we love doing.
The Yes Men Fix The World Peer-2-Peer-Edition, Website zum Film, Yesmen.org
[update] Auf Torrentfreak gibt’s ein Statement der Yes Men:
“There are a few reasons why we chose BitTorrent. First off, it’s a way to avoid censorship,” Mike Bonanno told TorrentFreak. “This version includes video of an action against the US Chamber of Commerce that we are being sued for. No commercial outlets will touch it. We had a TV show scheduled on Planet Green and their lawyers nearly wet themselves when they heard we wanted to use footage of us making political mince-meant out of the largest lobbying organization in the world.”
TV-Tipp: The Yes Men fix the world (UPDATE: Auch auf Arte+7)
(Youtube Direktyesmen, via Spreeblick)
Hätte ich jetzt fast verpasst: In fünf Minuten, also um 21 Uhr, beginnt auf Arte die Doku „The Yes Men fix the world“, über die ich schonmal bei Spreeblick gebloggt hatte. Snip von der Filmwebsite:
They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways – basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.
One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow’s stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can’t.
The reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton of bricks: we have created a market system that makes doing the right thing impossible, and the people who appear to be leading are actually following its pathological dictates. If we keep putting the market in the driver’s seat, it could happily drive the whole planet off a cliff.
[update] Der Film ist überraschenderweise auch auf Arte+7 verfügbar. (Überraschenderweise, weil ich dachte, dass es diesbezüglich größere Rechteprobleme geben würde. Dankenswerterweise haben die Yesmen aber anscheinend die Rechteabteilung gefickt und Ihr könnt den Film für die nächsten 7 Tagen gratis auf Arte.tv schauen. Danach auf einem Torrent-Tracker of your choice.)
Oder auf DVD (Amazon-Partnerlink): The Yes Men fix the world
Exxon vs. Yes Men
Exxon lies die Website der Yesm?nner sperren, nachdem diese unter Vivoleum.com einen sensationellen neuen Kraftstoff vorgestellt hatten – der aus den Opfern des Klimawandels bestehen sollte und stellten das ganze auf der Go-Expo in Calgary dem dann doch eher verduzten Publikum vor.
Eine ganz klare Parodie auf die laut Berichten Klimawandelleugner und Auchandersnennbare von Exxon, sogar die Mailaccounts wurden gesperrt – im Grunde eine mit Wirtschaftsmacht durchgedr?ckte Zensur einer rechtm??igen Parodie.
One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement that ExxonMobil plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Mens upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com, the Yes Mens spoof website, and cut off the Yes Mens email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify. The provider, Broadview Networks, also made the Yes Men remove all mention of Exxon from TheYesMen.org before theyd restore the Yes Mens email service.
The Yes Men assume the complainant was Exxon. Since parody is protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site will think Vivoleums a real Exxon product, not just a parody, said Yes Man Mike Bonanno. Exxons policies do already contribute to 150,000 climate-change related deaths each year, added Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum. So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!
An diesem Beispiel sieht man, wie leicht Zensur auch im freien Westen ganz einfach mal an den Meinungs- und Pressefreiheitsgesetzen vorbei durchgedr?ckt werden, einfach mal behaupten, Inhalte seien illegal, der Hoster springt, is ja Exxon.
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