Tonight at 8pm, and repeating sporadically for the rest of the month,
Showtime will present "The Yes Men". I've been wanting to see it for some time now, so I was glad to come across it in the listings.
The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world.
The movie got high reviews, including this one on
Buzzflash
If you want to know what free trade fantasists really believe about the stretch of corporate power -- such as giving companies the right to buy someone’s vote and letting supply and demand sort out democracy -- then you’ll want to check out a new film called The Yes Men.
Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, two activists who live in New York, went on a truth finding mission to uncover what happens at various conferences and meetings on free trade by posing and speaking as World Trade Organization officials. The documentary follows the irreverent pair pulling off hilarious stunts and suggesting to eager trade lawyers and representatives how to increase productivity by ending the siesta in Spain or using electric shocks to spur on workers, even if they are child laborers. Instead of outrage from the free trade representatives to such ideas, The Yes Men discovered an eerie quiet acceptance from the men and women who would auction off every possible resource of the planet in the guise of free trade. The Yes Men’s radically honest speeches about the true goals of the World Trade Organization will make you laugh just to keep yourself from crying.
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