09 October · 19:00 - 21:00 | |
225 Murray St Hobart, Australia | |
They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.
One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can't.
In this film they visit the twisted (and accidentally hilarious) underworld of the free-market think tanks, where they figure out a way to defeat the logic that's destroying our planet. And as they appear on the BBC before 300 million viewers, or before 1000 New Orleans contractors alongside Mayor Ray Nagin, the layers of lies are peeled back to reveal the raw heart of truth - a truth that brings with it hope.
Showing on the big screen at the Hobart Activist Centre as part of Green Left Weekly's Environment Film Festival. Money raised goes towards producing the alternative newspaper Green Left Weekly.
Entry $12/$8 concession per film or $25/$15 conc for a festival pass.
Delicious cheap meals available at 6:30pm.
Call 03 62346397 for more details.
