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I can't wait to see this film: The Yes Men .

These guys call what they do Identity Correction, where "honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else." And they made a movie of them pranking the WTO.

Here's a good explanation of some of what you'll see: "When we went to the International Legal Studies Conference in Salzburg, we delivered a speech that we thought would make people think twice about WTO policies. We suggested that the siesta in Spain be made illegal because it gets in the way of work. We suggested that a 'free market' be established in the realm of democratic government by allowing the buying and selling of votes... we even showed them a website that could make the process very efficient.

"All of these ideas simply follow the free market philosophy at the core of the WTO to its logical extreme, which is of course quite illogical when you look at the facts. And the facts are that in the last 25 years the poor of the world have gotten even poorer... while the rich have gotten astronomically richer. And all that during the implementation of policies that the WTO claim will help the poor. Of course, these kinds of twisted ideas of what is right for the weak or the poor are not new—there was a bizarre logic that supported colonialism too. Unfortunately, our current religion of free-trade is so strong that despite our best efforts to satirize the logic, the various audiences we spoke to simply agreed with every sinister, corrupt, and disgusting idea that the 'WTO' could muster. So we learned exactly how frightening this reality is."

Their movie opens September 24th in some cities.


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