Two Guys Who Can't Take “No” For An Answer
The Yes Men Fix The World (USA: 2009, 87 mins.)
Thursday May 6, 2010, 7:00pm
Urey Underground Lecture Hall
Produced by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno

The Yes Men Fist The World is a screwball true story that follows two daring and imaginative political activists — Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno — as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight how corporate greed is destroying the planet. One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world (BBC World News) and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can't.

The reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton of bricks: we have created a market system that makes doing the right thing impossible, and the people who appear to be leading are actually following its pathological dictates. If we keep putting the market in the driver's seat, it could happily drive the whole planet off a cliff.

At conference after conference, the Yes Men try to wake up their corporate audiences to the frightening prospect that our market system makes doing the right thing impossible, and the people who appear to be leading are actually following its pathological dictates.  Along the way, they take on some of the world's biggest corporations and reveal a truth that brings with it hope.

Hope explodes at the end of this film with a power that may take audiences straight out of the theater and into the barricades. A word of warning to theater owners: make sure your seats are securely screwed down.

Discussions to Follow Each Screening. Please join us.

Producer's Web Site: TheYesMenFixTheWorld.com

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