[Sust-mar] The YES Men are coming to the Maritimes!

Fri Jan 27 09:19:11 EST 2012

Hey there,

The YES Men  are coming to the Maritimes!

·         They gave away novelty-themed Justin Beiber asthma inhalers to
children who live beside coal plants

o   They out-messaged the Canadian Government at the Copenhagen Conference
on Climate Change by declaring a climate debt owed to African nations of $13
Billion dollars

§  They spoke at the largest Petroleum producers conference in Calgary
pretending to be Exxon representatives who had solved the search for oil
sources by using dead bodies

·         The produced over a million copies of a special edition of the New
York Times declaring an end to the war in Iraq

o   They announced General Electric would return a $3.2 Billion dollar tax
refund causing stockholders to dump the stock to punish the company for it’s
corporate social practice

§  And they declared the Alberta Tar sands as the site for Mordor, a land of
volcanic waste, for the filming of the Hollywood blockbuster of the Hobbit

Come check them out!

-steve-

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Culture Jammers Extraordinaire

The YES Men  

are coming to the Maritimes! 

APRIL 13-15, 2012

The YES Men are here to help us  

kick off our campaigns against 

climate change, patriarchy, homophobia, homelessness, corporate greed,
quarries, fracking, defence spending, fish farms and  

any and all issues that could use a little 

mockery, public attention and policy change.  

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Youtube clip: Meet the YES Men    

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Fridays 

Stephen Law

Social Transformation Program Coordinator

Tatamagouche Centre

stevelaw at eastlink.ca

(902) 632-2497

www.tatacentre.ca

Please note: If you need to reach me, I generally work on Mondays and
Fridays 

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