A week before going to Copenhagen I had come across a rather intriguing news item which reported that 2 high level executives of Coca Cola held a press conference condemning their employers’ sponsorship of Hopenhagen (Hopenhagen was a festival/campaign held alongside the COP15 by the UN and included concerts, green exhibits and other niceties).
Check out the video below
(via GristTV)
This should have created quite an uproar in the corporate sector. Well it would have, in case it were true. But don’t let that let you undermine the efforts of the Yes Men, who are soon topping my list of the most creative activists around. They go around impersonating high level corporates and bureaucrats and inflicting shame upon them.
I got the chance to meet them at the Fresh Air Center where they spent an evening interacting with the bloggers and showing the premiere of their latest stunt (check that out here), trust me you do NOT want to miss it.
They fund themselves and are amongst us. And no, they haven’t been sued yet, or wait have they?
I was having a chat with a friend if he’d like to open a chapter of the Yes Men in India and while the prospect sounded exciting at the beginning; almost at once something inside the both us clinched our gut and made us retract. It’s the same reason we didn’t take part in the protests in Copenhagen. Because we were too scared.
Sigh.
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