[Peace] The Yes Men at Allen Hall

[Haber, Laura]

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The Yes Men are coming to Allen Hall!

The Yes Men 
Thursday, April 29 
8pm
Allen Hall Main Lounge
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking is available in the garage across the street)
call 244-2317 for more information.

The Yes Men are a group of anti-capitalist culture jammers who found
themselves in the international media spotlight after impersonating and
lampooning the World Trade Organization at business meetings around the
globe. They use any means necessary to agree their way into the fortified
compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of
their undercover escapades to provide a public glimpse at the
behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team
players... but they play for the opposing team.

The comic and disturbing encounters they had while representing the rich and
powerful of the world is the subject of the Yes Men's live tour. One of the
Yes Men will explain the bizarre circumstances by which their website was
confused for the WTO's and how this confusion resulted in invitations to
speak as the WTO. The storytelling will be enhanced by multimedia -
including projected images, music, and video - as well as theatrical props.
The slides and video will both illustrate the narrative as well as showing
the audience exactly what happened at the fake WTO lectures. 

Woven into the story will be a history lesson - an explanation of how the
first world, through organizations like the WTO, continues to exploit the
third world, maintaining a modern version of the colonial relationships upon
which our current economies are based. 

A documentary film about "The Yes Men" will be out in theaters in August and
is directed by Chris Smith (who made American Movie and Home Movie), Dan
Ollman and Sarah Price and distributed by United Artists.

"The result of the filmmakers' four-year journey with the Yes Men -- so
named because they basically agree with people, then push their ideas to the
point of absurdity -- is a head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film. UA,
which distributed the most successful docu in theatrical history, Moore's
'Bowling for Columbine," has another winner here." Hollywood Reporter