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 Left Forum 2010 The Center Cannot Hold
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Going Undercover: The Yes Men and others discuss subterfuge and satire in
activism and investigation
 

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, Harper's Magazine journalist and author of the
best-selling Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a
Stalinist Dictatorship.

The Yes Men are no strangers to the spotlight; in recent years the hoaxsters
have made front-page news by posing as top executives and spokespeople from
the World Trade Organization <http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/wharton> ,
Exxon-Mobil <http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/vivoleum> , HUD
<http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/hud> , McDonalds
<http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/plattsburgh> , and Halliburton
<http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/survivaball> .  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 they
<http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/bbcbhopal>  announced on the BBC that  the
company was going to pay $12 billion in reparations to victims of the Bhopal
distaster.  Many New Yorkers will also remember their
<http://www.nytimes-se.com/>  spoof edition of
http://www.leftforum.org/images/turkmen.jpgThe New York Times that gleefully
announced the end of the Iraq war and the passage of a maximum wage law.
The Yes Men documented their hiijinks in the 2009 film The Yes Men Fix the
World.  Join Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno in a rare out of character
appearance as they discuss their tactic of "identity correction."  With
special guests, including  <http://www.harpers.org/store/turkmeniscam.html>
Turkmeniscam author Ken Silverstein!


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