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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Going Undercover: The Yes Men
and others discuss subterfuge and satire in activism and investigation</span></strong><span
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style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Learn about the
insights behind the incites as The Yes Men open up their politics and
tactics to audience and public dialogue. With special guests
including Ken Silverstein, <i>Harper's Magazine</i> journalist and author
of the best-selling <i>Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to
Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship</i>.</span><span style='font-size:
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posing as top executives and spokespeople from the <a
href="http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/wharton">World Trade Organization</a>,
<a href="http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/vivoleum">Exxon-Mobil</a>, <a
href="http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/hud">HUD</a>, <a
href="http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/plattsburgh">McDonalds</a>, and <a
href="http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/survivaball">Halliburton</a>.
Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into
business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more
extreme ways. The Yes Men famously sent Dow Chemical stock into a
tailspin when <a href="http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/bbcbhopal">they
announced on the BBC</a> that the company was going to pay $12
billion in reparations to victims of the Bhopal distaster. Many New
Yorkers will also remember <a href="http://www.nytimes-se.com/">their
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maximum wage law. The Yes Men documented their hiijinks in the 2009
film <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Yes Men Fix
the World</span></em>. Join Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno in a
rare out of character appearance as they discuss their tactic of
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