At Large The Yes Men Pull Another One
posted by on June 15 at 15:50 PM
This prank was perpetrated, in part, by Seattle’s own Reggie Watts.
The premise of the presentation, which included a PowerPoint lecture by “S.K. Wolff,” was that as humans begin to die as a result of calamities caused by climate change, their remains could be harvested for an alternative fuel source called “vivoleum” that would eventually replace oil.
Osenberg, supposedly the director of human resources with the vivoleum program, took the stage carrying a lit candle while volunteers handed out candles to the audience.
The approximately 250 assembled guests were told the vivoleum for the candles had been “sourced” from an ExxonMobil maintenance worker who donated it before dying of cancer.
The candles were actually made of wax and human hair gathered from barbershops.
Organizers of GO-Expo were not impressed with the stunt.
The candles were supposedly made of Reggie. Gross!
This was my favorite story yesterday. If you haven't seen it these guys have a movie out called The Yes Men. We got it through Netflix and it's inspiring in a Edward Abbey kind of vein. They're doing some awesome stuff and I'm stoked to hear that someone from the NW is involved.
Keep it up Yes Men!!!
Ohh, thanks for the tip...ordered movie; it's at the top of the queue. They also have a good website.
don't keep the movie too long otherwise it will take forever for me to get it...
What? You mean I won't be getting my $49.99 for a liter of that oil back?
Soilent Black is people! PEOPLE!!!
The Dow stunt was brilliant - check out the BBC footage. http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/dow/
i don't get how they were trespassing, weren't they invited?? they should fight those citations in court
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