Yes Men pawn Chamber of Commerce over climate change legislation

Posted on | October 21, 2009 | No Comments

From the Boing Boing blog: The Yes Men strike again. Posing as members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they held a press conference today to announce that the chamber would abandon its opposition to climate-change legislation now in Congress.

Watch the video:

And read the press release. I love these guys.

UPDATE (Oct 22, 2009): Chamber of Commerce try to ‘Ralph Lauren’ the Yes Men

From Boing Boing: “Rebecca from EFF sez, “The Yes Men prank — they put out a press release and held a spoof news conference on Monday, claiming that the Chamber of Commerce had reversed its position and would stop lobbying against a climate bill currently in the Senate — apparently hasn’t embarrassed the Chamber of Commerce enough yet. Attorneys for the group have issued a takedown demand for the website connected to the prank, claiming copyright infringement. The demand ignores the parodic nature of the stunt (parody enjoys First Amendment protection) and may just serve to put the Yes Men’s criticism in the news for one more day.”

Read it here.

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