Freedom of speech with the YES-MAN

       

    Within both books the Interventionist and Seeing Power support freedom of speech.

The Yes Men are a prime example of freedom of speech in way. Just what is the Yes Man

group? The Yes Man is an activist duo and has network of supporters. The Yes Man have

collaborated with other groups that have had similar interest. They have performed with large

scale hoaxes and raise awareness about political issues. They would often talk on shows which

their invited to and belief that corporations and government organizations would often act in

public. Props are used for the ruse.

            Three projects that the Yes Man would do on are Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, and

WTO. I’ll briefly explain each project. The Dow Chemical project is about the Bhopal disaster

20^th anniversary. Where the UCC tried to dissociate itself from the responsibility for the gas leak

of 3,800 people died while later half a million more with health defects from the chemical

exposure. The Yes Man created fake websites of the Dow Chemical. The next project in which

the Yes Man posed as ExxonMobil executives for the ExxonMobil project. Both delivered a long

study and a project called Vivioleum which is completely made up and would expand of fossil

fuel production. And says that the results of creating Vivioleum was obtained from the flesh of a

Exxon janitor who died from cleaning a toxic spill. Finally the WTO project.    

            The WTO is the most famous prank which corrected the WTO website. They first used

another fake website to then receive emails from real visitors and gave speeches encouraged

many corporations to buy votes citizens. They argued that it was a waste of money because of

other third world countries willingly to supply equivalent slaves. The Yes Man urged people to

listen to WTO instead of the facts. They unveiled a gold body suit and claimed it would increase

productivity and oversee workers can be tracked with implants inside the suit.