About this project
The Yes Men Need You!! (and also, at the moment, your money...)
How many filmmakers do you know that lead their audiences out on nightly anti-corporate riots after screenings of their film? Or who get arrested in the course of launching 22 "Survivaballs" at the United Nations during climate week, to warn of the catastrophic consequences of inaction? Or who hijack a well-known right-wing tabloid and convert it into a shrill voice for sane climate policy? Or who have plans to get 10,000 people arrested on the 10th anniversary of the Seattle protests, next month? Or who are so broke that they send out a note to their mailing list selling a handful of preview DVDs of their new film, even as it is just opening theatrically across the country?
Then meet the Yes Men, anti-corporate pranksters who provide "glorious testimony to the moral power of satire," (New York magazine), and who've been called, "Funnier and more useful than Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno," (The Observer). Over the years, the Yes Men have honed a powerful tactic called "identity correction," in which they pose as the world’s most powerful corporate and government elites and, in some of their most famous pranks, act out the actual change they want to see in the world. (More recently with their help, the "New York Times" announced the end of the Iraq war.) These inspired low-budget actions have been regularly covered in almost all major national and international news outlets (the New York Times, CNN, Reuters, AFP, BBC, etc).
While any donation will be helpful to roll the balls out across America....
we are also currently putting survivaballs up for adoption! For just $1,000, you will become the proud parent of the world's stupidest costume. The Survivaball you own will be deployed in direct-action protest all across America, and then in December will go to Copenhagen to push world leaders to do something smart about climate change.
Film trailer: http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/trailer_hd.htm
'Inside a Survivaball' on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/offbeat/2009/09/23/moos.survivaball.cnn.html
To adopt your own active ball, please email adoptaball@theyesmen.org and stay safe from climate change disaster!
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Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on November 4, 2009.
Pledge $1,000 or more
Pledging a donation of $1000 means you will get to own your very own Survivaball! It will come to you with lots of experience after going all over America and even to the Copenhagen climate talks in December! Use it to stage your own hijinks in your home town, scare off the neighbor's dog, as a glorified raincoat, or to protect yourself from the in-laws. There are countless ways to use Survivaball, knowing that you'll always be protected from climate disaster.
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The Yes Men are a group who use any means necessary to agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, and then smuggle out the stories of their undercover escapades to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of big business. The stories are often both shocking and hilarious. They have been called "the Jonathan Swift of the Jackass generation" by author Naomi Klein. The Yes Men have impersonated World Trade Organization, Dow Chemical Corporation, and Bush administration spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world. They do this (a) in order to demonstrate some of the mechanisms that keep bad people and ideas in power, and (b) because it's absurdly fun. Their main goal is to focus attention on the dangers of economic policies that place the rights of capital before the needs of people and the environment.
Keep up on the mischief by signing up for our mailing list at www.theyesmen.org/join
