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Monday, December 14, 2009

Three or fours spoofs within spoofs within spoofs going on right now with Canadian Environment Ministry, Wall Street Journal, and perhaps The Yes Men

Three or fours spoofs within spoofs within spoofs going on right now with Canadian Environment Ministry, Wall Street Journal, and perhaps The Yes Men 

Canada Gets Punk'd In Copenhagen: Work Of The Yes Men, Mayhap? [UPDATED]

by Jason Linkins, The Huffington Post, December 14, 2009

EXCERPTED:

Signs point to the Yes Men, whose primary way of pranking-the-world-in-order-to-save-it is to pass themselves off as representatives of an organization and make big splashy announcements about major policy changes. Recently, the Yes Men posed as representatives of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and staged a press conference at which they announced that the Chamber was adopting a more progressive stance on climate change policy. The Yes Men have also previously pulled off remarkably well-built newspaper facsimiles.

Last week, the Yes Men attempted to use projectors to turn the Hopenhagen Globe that sits in the middle of Copenhagen's City Hall Square, into a massive anti-Coca Cola billboard. Their attempt was quickly ferreted out by Danish police.

The Huffington Post's Green Editor, Katherine Goldstein, who is on the ground in Copenhagen, reports that sources close to The Yes Men were acting very coy, "smiling," while saying, "Who said it was the Yes Men?"
We hope to be able to say so soon!

Link to rest of article:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/canada-gets-punkd-in-cope_n_390992.html

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