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Home | Friday 7th August 2009 | Issue 686

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YEAH YEAH YEAH

The new Yes Men film is coming this week. The Yes Men Fix the World features more of their high-level pranks as they expose corporations to ridicule. This film features their stunt where – speaking as Dow Chemical – they promised to compensate and clean up the toxic mess in Bhopal following the 1984 disaster. Also, they pose as Exxon execs and tell an energy conference about plans to combat climate change by using the victims of climate change as a source of energy. 

The Yes Men will be at the preview screenings at the Odeon Panton St, London, 7th-10th August, and the film will go on release in 20 cinemas across the UK on 11th August, including an 8.30pm screening at Brighton’s Duke Of York’s cinema. For more see www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings.htm

* This week the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to arrest Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and produce him before the court without delay. UC and Anderson are charged with culpable homicide. Anderson absconded from a 1992 court case despite a summons, refusing to take responsibility for the Bhopal chemical disaster, pay adequate compensation or clean the site, which continues to be toxic (See SchNEWS 684). www.bhopal.net 

Keywords: bhopal, dow chemicals, exxon, the yes men


 

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