Monday, December 14, 2009

A nice little YES MEN stunt

The Yes Men, are two men that impersonate big corporations and leaders in order to publicly humiliate them, to learn more about their stunts go here. Their recent target, Canada (who is continually winning Fossil of the Day awards here in Copenhagen who is in first place on the leader board!) To learn more about Fossil of the Day go here. The Yes Men posted a fake website that looked like Canada's Department of the Environment, and stated that they were changing their position regarding climate change. They even made a fake New York Times page that ran the story, so that "this will force Canadian leaders to make the embarrassing announcement that, no, they haven’t put forward a new plan aimed at reaching a global climate-change treaty." (Grist) Read more about the stunt here. One point Yes Men, Canada zero.

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