The Yes Men: The True Story of the End of the World Trade Organization

by Andy Bichlbaum, Bob Spunkmeyer, Mike Bonanno, et al.

Book Overview

Presents the story of two activists who, after setting up a fake WTO website, are invited to lecture by unsuspecting organizations and subsequently deliver speeches at corporate functions criticizing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972952993
• ISBN13: 9780972952996
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Disinformation Company
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Just Say Yes

Forget The Matrix's Neo: The Yes Men are The One--or, rather, The Ones, ascended masters of media hoaxing, sociopolitical pranking, and Tactical Embarrassment. From [...], their deft evisceration of His Illegitimacy's official website, to their helpful re-branding of Dow Chemical's public image (on the anniversary of Dow's 1983 Bhopal screwup, which killed 5,000 people), to their Regime Change Playing Cards (trade you a Dick Cheney Ace of Spades for a GWB Four of Clubs!), the Yes Men have earned the ire of big, lumbering targets such as the World Trade Organization and George W. Bush. What a wonderful world, where a band of guerrilla media activists does the toothless newsmedia's job for them, exposing the Matrix of corporate power and government venality for all to see. Welcome to the Desert of the Surreal. -- Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink

Go see the movie!

The Yes Men are a small group of pranksters/anti-World Trade Organization activists bent on disrupting global free trade in some of the most unusual manners. Some of their past stunts included altering some GI Joe and Barbie dolls and switching their voices, and creating a website that was very similiar to then Governor George W. Bush around the time he decided to run for president. I loved Bush's response that there should be limits freedom. Of course the WTO wasn't none too pleased with The Yes Men. This book is a companion piece to the brilliant film I just saw. It highlights the effort that Andy and Mike put into infiltrating various global free trade forums. You would be amazed by the amount of time and work they actually invested because it took them months especially for the textile conference in Finland which was extremely funnier than heck. I had never laughed as hard as I did when Andy unleashed that phallus to an unsuspecting audience. What was even funnier was the idea for McDonald's to literally recycle the food waste into food for starving third world countries. When Andy and Mike presented that idea to a college class, the reaction was priceless. Michael Moore makes a cameo appearance in this film like he did in "The Corporation". As funny as that guy is, what he said was nothing new. I think his footage could have been left off or expanded more on the evils of free trade. Yes The Yes Men are immature the results of their pranks are hilarious but with a serious message. A definitely must see movie and read book.