With Yes Men Like These Who Needs Enemies

The Yes Men describe themselves as a “genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce… pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations”. They then pull off hoaxes like telling BBC News that Dow Chemicals was to compensate victims of the Bhopal gas disaster, that the American Chamber of Commercewas dropping its opposition to climate change or that the WTO was for slave labour in Africa. They famously faked the New York Times edition of 4 July 2009 with headlines like ‘Iraq War Ends’.

The Yes Men have a new documentary, The Yes Men Fix The World, out now for screening. [Guardian report on the Yes Men]