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Yes, Yes. The Yes Men in New Orleans
This time Andy Bichlbaum posed as HUD spokesman Rene Orwin during a conference in which Louisiana Governor Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Naginon ... . For the past year, as various interests have battled it out for this city, we at HUD have often ended ... contractors and ourselves of the chance to make a big difference. Until today, we at HUD planned
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The Yes Men cut to the quick of Katrina
Maggie says: Our modern-day Jokers have struck again. In their customarily fearless fashion, The Yes Men pulled a prank the other day on the City of New Orleans, just in time for the one-year anniversary of Katrina. But in the classic Yes Men twist
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"a lie is better than the truth" (Update)
Aug 31, 2006 Another Broken Promise (C&L) is how Paul Krugman characterized the Bush non-response in the year that has passed since the ... ) The Yes Men struck at the heart of the Bush administration's "faux" approach to governance, in Iraq ... for being "macacas" and poor. Yes Men (and Women!) at work. What a deal!!! Of course, the people
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Hurricane Hoax blows through N'awlins
Strumpette reports that the culture jamming group known as "The Yes Men" got themselves into a news conference, ... that name) reports, media swallowed this and rushed out alerts, while the Yes Men also informed ... issued a statement to set the record straight. The Yes Men have become famous, in a manner
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Sung a Lot of Songs
What's really cruel, sick, and harmful? On Monday August 28th the Yes Men managed to call the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s ... assistant undersecretary, one of the Yes Men announced that HUD has chosen to rededicate itself ... the Yes Men’s ideal HUD announcement the real HUD and HANO shot back calling the hoax a cruel joke
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The Yes And Men?
I’m trying to work through a number of books right now, one of which has the following quote on the back cover: You must always have a secret plan ... ideas, it appears the Yes Men have been at it again - this time taking on the US government’s poor ... here at HUD is to ensure access to affordable housing for those who need it the most,” said the man
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Wal Mart in New Orleans: Some Backstory
Posing as fictitious HUD official “Rene Oswin,” one of the innovative political activists known as the Yes Men spoke in New Orleans Monday, ... store may harm small businesses when construction is complete. Here’s where HUD starts to factor
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The Yes Men Strike Again
Media pranksters the Yes Men announcing Housing and Urban Development plans to "reverse its decision to demolish 5,000 public housing units in New Orleans" and posing as HUD officials while "standing next to New ... Orleans and residents’ fight against the government to return home. An article on CNN includes Yes
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Fashionable Facism
Read more... Yes Men Strike Again KENNER, Louisiana (CNN) ... and media arts who lives in New York and Paris. "That would be HUD. At this moment, they're doing some ... of the Gulf Coast Reconstruction and Hurricane Preparedness Summit, he laid out grandiose plans for HUD
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The Yes Men II
A short snippet of the Yes Men HUD speech. Some have criticized the guys for giving "false hope" to NO residents. Instead I agree with one of the folks on film - let's be angry at the powers-that-be that what the Yes Men said can't really be true.
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