The Yes Men film - Dublin

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Wednesday February 16, 2005 03:38 by Anthony G

The film follows two anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences. After launching a web site http://www.gatt.org/ as a parody of the official WTO site, they find themselves being invited to speak about trade issues at business conferences around the world. They use these opportunities to lampoon neo-liberal ideology by taking the ideas to extreme conclusions which make no sense from a "common-sense" perspective. They advocate a market in human rights abuses and say that democracy should also be turned into a free market by auctioning off votes to the highest bidder. Finding that their ideas are taken seriously rather than being dismissed out of hand, they come up with even more shocking ideas and absurd antics.

"The Yes Men" is being shown as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in the Screen at 6.30pm. Further info on the film is available at http://www.theyesmen.org/movie/