http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Interview with Andrew Bichlbaum, one of "The Yes Men," a culture-jamming duo that use pranks, humour and their lethal imaginations as powerful weapons in the battle against social injustice and environmental degradation. Bichlbaum and his partner Mike Bonnano are brilliant pranksters who impersonate entities whose practices they're trying to expose, produce fake media releases and create and maintain fake websites for the organizations or corporations they're trying to spoof. Their tactics often lead to conference invitations as well as media requests. One of the duo's most famous pranks took place in 2004 when Bichlbaum, posing on the BBC News as a spokesperson for Dow Chemical, announced the company would take full responsibility and provide compensation for the 1984 Bhopal disaster"”considered the world's worst industrial accident where a lethal chemical cloud released from a pesticide plant killed thousands and injured tens of thousands more. Almost immediately after the announcement, Dow's stocks plummeted by
Originally produced by The Green Interview in 2012.