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Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.
Critics of United States foreign policy such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, and anti-globalist pranksters The Yes Men are widely accepted inside the movement.
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" James Hansen, Noam Chomsky, Raj Patel, Naomi Klein, The Yes Men, and Dennis Kucinich have had similar views.
Jude Finisterra was actually Andy Bichlbaum, a member of the activist prankster group The Yes Men.
In 2002, The Yes Men issued a fake press release explaining why Dow refused to take responsibility for the disaster and started up a website, at " DowEthics. com ", designed to look like the real Dow website, but with what they felt was a more accurate cast on the events.
It revealed that Dow Chemical had engaged Stratfor to spy on the public and personal lives of activists involved in the Bhopal disaster, including the Yes Men.
Regular, even daily emails to Dow representatives from hired security analysts list the YouTube videos liked, Twitter and Facebook posts made and the public appearances of these activists, including the Yes Men.
* A 2010 advertising campaign by Chevron was described by the Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch and The Yes Men as greenwash.
As JD had an autocratic style of leadership, he compiled a management team full of " Yes Men " who were used to taking orders from JD.
In contrast, David had a democratic style of leadership, and so with no senior management changes in 1993, JD's " Yes Men " were suddenly unguided on what they should do.
He gave $ 24 million, which included $ 15 million from April 2008, to CalArts for its music curricula, and provided funding for the culture jamming activists The Yes Men.
Participants have included: Alfre Woodard, Christopher Hitchens, Chalmers Johnson, the Honorable Kimba Wood, John Hueston, Mike Bonanno of The Yes Men, Ralph Nader, Don Beck, Brian Swimme, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
* SUNY Plattsburgh served as the filming location for two documentary films: 1982's Academy Award-winning If You Love This Planet and parts of 2003's The Yes Men
Keynote presentations for HOPE Number Nine were given by The Yes Men and NSA whistleblower William Binney, with Andy Bichelbaum as principal speaker.
His British films included Yes, Mr Brown ( 1933 ), Good Night, Vienna ( 1932 ), That's a Good Girl ( 1933 ), Brewster's Millions ( 1935 ), Come Out of the Pantry ( 1935 ), When Knights Were Bold ( 1936 ), This'll Make You Whistle ( 1936 ), Smash and Grab ( 1937 ), The Sky's the Limit ( 1938 ), Break the News ( 1938 ), The Gang's All Here ( 1939 ), The Middle Watch ( 1940 ), Bulldog Sees It Through ( 1940 ), As Long as They're Happy ( 1955 ), and Josephine and Men ( 1955 ).
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Some mentionable connections and collaborations from this period: Net. Artists Alexei Shulgin, Heath Bunting, Olia Lialina, Vuk Ćosić and with contemporary artists Aram Bartholl, James Powderly and Evan Roth from Free Art and Technology Lab and Graffiti Research Lab, Franco and Eva Mattes ( 0100101110101101. org ), IRWIN, Franz West, Janez Jansa, Carsten Nicolai, Minerva Cuevas, The Yes Men, Zhang Peili, Jodi, Miltos Manetas, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Trevor Paglen, Douglas Rushkoff, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova and Nicolas Bourriaud.
The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos.
Through actions of tactical media, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social issues.
To date, the duo has produced two films: The Yes Men ( 2003 ) and The Yes Men Fix the World ( 2009 ).

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When responding to the claim that almost all of the characters in " The Delicate Prey " were victimized by either physical or psychological violence, Bowles responded: " Yes, I suppose.
The Yes Men decided to pressure Dow further, so as " Finisterra ," Bichlbaum went on the news to claim that Dow planned to liquidate Union Carbide and use the resulting $ 12 billion to pay for medical care, clean up the site, and fund research into the hazards of other Dow products.

Yes and on
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.
The new City Charter, which should get a Yes vote as Question No. 1 on Nov. 7, would not make a good Mayor out of a bad one.
Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.
The American group Vanilla Fudge and British group Yes based their early careers on radical re-arrangements of contemporary hits.
In Scotland's first referendum on devolution, held in March 1979, he campaigned for a " Yes " vote alongside the Conservative Alick Buchanan-Smith and the Liberal Russell Johnston.
In 2007, shortly after announcing on his website that he would establish a presidential exploratory committee, Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the " Yes We Can " rally at the Johnson Center atrium.
Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one ; this is a process improvisers refer to as " Yes, And ..." and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique.
A similar example is the Politician's syllogism, satirized on the television show Yes Minister:
Many of the British musicians and bands that had embraced psychedelia went on to create progressive rock in the 1970s, including Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and members of Yes.
The former ten-year moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants was the result of a citizens ' initiative voted on in 1990 which had passed with 54. 5 % Yes vs. 45. 5 % No votes ( see Nuclear power in Switzerland for details ).
They were also writing multi-part suites such as " Starship Trooper " on The Yes Album ( 1971 ), " Heart of the Sunrise " on Fragile ( 1971 ), " Close To the Edge " on Close to the Edge ( 1972 ) and " Awaken " on Going For The One ( 1977 ).
Rick Wakeman was an on again-off again, keyboard virtuoso for Yes who also produced several solo symphonic prog concept albums.
The main influences on the neo-prog genre are Genesis, Yes, Camel and Pink Floyd.
Its primary law-making powers were enhanced following a Yes vote in the referendum on 3 March 2011, making it possible for it to legislate without having to consult the UK parliament, nor the Secretary of State for Wales in the 20 areas that are devolved.
* Yes BUT Nau in Le Pouliguen, France, held every year on the Pentecost / Whit Monday holiday ( May / June ), organized by the Frisbeurs Nantais
In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.
After a couple of weeks of rehearsals Vangelis wavered on the option of joining Yes and, the band had to detour and hire Swiss keyboard player Patrick Moraz instead, who later joined The Moody Blues.
Vangelis did, however, become friends with Yes ' lead vocalist Jon Anderson, and later worked with him on several occasions, including as the duo Jon & Vangelis.
The Dangerhouse session version of " Los Angeles " was also featured in a Dangerhouse compilation in 1979 called " Yes L. A ." ( a play on the now-famous No Wave compilation No New York ), a picture disc that featured other early-punk-era LA bands like the Weirdos and Black Randy.
In 2003 " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " was depicted in a mechanical holiday window display at the Lord & Taylor department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
Macy's, in partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, launched its first Believe campaign in 2008, based on " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ".

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