'Yes Men' Getting No Laughs from Exxon, Dow - by Andy Lauer
Anti-corporate pranksters the Yes Men are at it again - exposing corruption and human rights violations among some of the world’s most powerful corporations via outrageous comic stunts - in their new film “The Yes Men Fix the World.” Not everyone, however, is amused. “The Yes Men Fix the World” is a screwball true story of two self-described political activists (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off outrageous pranks. The film also shows the Yes Men impersonating Dow employees live on the BBC before 300 million viewers, announcing that Dow will finally compensate survivors of the Bhopal catastrophe in India, which left thousands dead after lethal gas escaped from a chemical plant owned by a Dow subsidiary, and clean up the tainted groundwater left in its wake.
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