The Yes Men
Directed By Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith

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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 story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com [In April 1999, ®TMark constructed www.GWBush.com, a website that at first glance appeared to be that of Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush (his website is www.GeorgeWBush.com). ®TMark’s first version incurred Bush’s wrath, and his lawyers sent a threatening letter. By the time ®TMark’s second version of GWBush.com was published, with much more content, the Bush campaign had complained to the Federal Elections Commission. These attacks resulted in a major international news story, which was then magnified by Bush’s televised response to a reporter’s question about the site: “There ought to be limits to freedom,” Bush said–an ominous gaffe that many still remember (especially after his multiple restrictions to civil liberties of late).], and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO’s website. Some visitors don’t notice the site is a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives.

Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts don’t notice the joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up with.

Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a whole new approach for one final lecture.

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Yes Men Hoax on BBC Reminds World of Dow Chemical’s Refusal to Take Responsibility for Bhopal Disaster

The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy was a day of embarrassment for Dow chemicals, the present owner of Union Carbide and the major news media around the world.

On Friday the BBC World Satellite television channel broadcast an interview with a man identified as Jude Finisterra (aka Andy Bichlbaum), who claimed to represent Dow chemicals.

Dow, which bought Union Carbide three years ago, has always maintained it “has no responsibility” for the 1984 disaster when tons of lethal gases leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in the city of Bhopal, India. 7,000 people lost their lives within days. 15,000 more lost died in the following years. Around 100,000 others are still suffering chronic and debilitating illnesses. It was one of the worst industrial disasters in history and for years activists have called on the firm to take full responsibility for the disaster and to clean up the contaminated site.

In the interview, Finisterra said Dow had accepted responsibility for the accident and had set-up a multibillion dollar compensation package. The hoax ran twice on BBC World and was picked up by the major news wires before the BBC determined that no man named Jude Finisterra worked at Dow and he was an imposter. The company was forced to remind the world it did not take responsibility for the disaster and said there was no compensation fund set-up for the victims.

In Frankfurt, Dow’s share price fell 4.2 percent in 23 minutes, wiping $2 billion off its market value before recovering all the day”s losses three hours later. The BBC is continuing to apologize for running the interview today and says it has lunched an internal investigation. Later the man calling himself Finisterra told BBC radio he was part of the Yes Men. —Democracy Now!

Cast
Mike Bonanno…. Himself
Andy Bichlbaum…. Himself
Michael Moore…. Himself
Patrick Lichty…. Himself
Sal Salamone…. Himself
Phil Bayly…. Chicago News Reporter
Dr. Andreas Bichlbauer …. Himself