"Please get back." "Please move back to a safe distance." "We're very concerned with safety." "These are the solution to climate change that america's corporations has come up with and has in mind for their top C.E.Os." "I don't see what that has to do with the survival of people, and the fact that the C.E.Os are responsible for the situation -- but the market always comes up with the best solution." "And in this case, the problem is climate change, and that's the solution that corporations will come up with." "Hi." "My name's mike." "That's me." "And that is andy." "The reason we're all dressed up is because we're launching a protest." "Just across the river is the united nations." "The world's most powerful leaders are meeting there to discuss climate change, and everyone's hopeful that our president will do the right thing." "We must seize the opportunity to make a significant step forward in the global fight against climate change." "But would all these guys go along with obama?" "We wanted to show them just what was in store if they didn't." "Okay, what you're seeing here are survivaballs." "They are self-contained units that will allow somebody to survive no matter what happens to the climate." "They can survive six months of drought, category-four hurricanes, any kind of tornado, they're fully equipped for anything." "We're launching a flotilla of 100 survivaballs to the united nations, and we're gonna say that if you don't come to an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, this is what the future's gonna look like." "Right now the current is just right to take these survivaballs to the united nations." "No one is expecting them... except for that coast guard and, uh, police boats." "But it's small, and that probably isn't a machine gun mounted on its front end, so there's probably nothing to worry about." "♪ At first I was afraid, I was petrified" "♪ Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side so, go towards the machine gun and then left, and you'll be at the u.n." "Everything will be fine." "♪ And I learned how to get along" "♪ And so you're back from outer space" "♪ I just walked in to find you here" "♪ With that sad look upon your face" "♪ I should have changed that stupid lock" "♪ I should have made you leave your key" "♪ If I had known for just one second" "♪ You'd be back to bother me" "♪ Go on, now go, walk out the door" "♪ Just turn around now" "♪ 'cause you're not welcome anymore" "♪ Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye" "♪ Do you think I'd crumble?" "♪ Did you think I'd lay down and die?" "♪ Oh, no, not I, I will survive" "♪ Oh, as long as I know how to love" "♪ I know I'll stay alive" "♪ I've got all my life to live" "♪ And I've got all my love to give" "♪ And I'll survive" "♪ I will survive" "♪ Hey, hey!" "[ Sirens wailing ]" "♪ It took all strength I had not to fall apart" "♪ Kept trying' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart" "♪ And I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself" "♪ I used to cry... the survivaball protest didn't survive long." "Minutes after wading into the water, the survivaballs were in retreat." "One of the two main "yes men" was cuffed and taken away." "Do you want us to send somebody, or...?" "Uh, sure." "I think it'll be okay, though." "We don't usually get arrested, but ever since the 1990s, mike and I have been dressing up in second-hand suits and impersonating big and powerful people." "Hello, uh, this is reggie lamprey calling," "I'm from the yes bush can campaign." "Hi, uh, this is kennithrung sprat from the wto." "My name is francisco guerrero." "My name is fred, I'm from halliburton." "We weasel our way onto center stage." "At least for a little while." "Mr. Oswin, you're not even on the directory of h.u.d., you're not even listed, you don't even have a phone number." "It's come to that, has it?" "The hoax was an elaborate one... for the first time, dow is accepting full responsibility for the bhopal catastrophe." "The prank, which briefly knocked 3% off dow's shares... when the jig is up, it makes the news." "It's a group of pranksters who call themselves "The Yes Men"... an activist group called "yes men"... it's not the way most people protest, but it's our way to say no to corporate greed." "Ooh." "[ applause ]" "This is the archive, man." "This looks really water damaged, whatever it is." "Here's a little love note." "What do we do with this?" "We have to get rid of some of this crap." "Whoa!" "Jesus christ, look at that." "Oh, this is a domino's pizza shirt." "This is so that you can deliver a pizza " ""deliver a pizza" to any event." "They'll always let a pizza delivery guy in." "I remember that." "Wow, that's a lot of books." "Why don't we sell them?" "Well, because -- We're trying to sell them, but nobody wants them." "[ Andy chuckles ] you want her?" "You want her?" "You want to take her?" "Andy and I met in 1996." "I opened the door, and it was like looking into a funhouse mirror." "It's so weird -- When we met we were like," ""oh, my god." "You're my other half." "Oh, my god." "Somebody as mischievous as I am."" "you know, we'd get up in the morning and do some weird action and then just keep doing it." "16-, 18-hour day." "We'd kind of egg each other on and, you know, "let's just try something crazy."" "it was all fun, so why stop?" "Like, if I had a crazy idea that I would never have the guts to do by myself, mike would egg me on and say," ""hey, why not make it even crazier?"" "And then I'd think of something even crazier than that." "We were each other's perfect enablers, and it was a great, little codependency." "Strangely enough, that also broke up my former relationship." "My girlfriend dumped me because of this new obsessive work thing that I was doing." "I was supposed to drive across the country with her, and instead, I drove across the country with the new relationship -- Andy." "[ laughs ]" "Things were harder now and not just because we were older." "There was a new problem " "A problem so huge, it made everything feel hopeless." "I'm talking about global warming." "We all know what's up." "Our carbon emissions are making the planet get hotter, and the weather is going bonkers." "That's scary enough, but if we keep doing what we're doing, scientists tell us that our whole climate system will likely spiral out of control." "Food systems will collapse, and civilization will crumble." "That's crazy, but what's truly insane is we could fix it." "Within our lifetime, we could replace all fossil fuels with renewable energy." "So, why aren't we doing this?" "Because the fossil fuel guys have hijacked our political system." "They spend millions every year to convince us that there's no alternative to oil and coal." "There isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." "The notion that co2 causes global warming is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people." "These guys got elected with help from the u.s. chamber of commerce, which sounds like a government agency, but it's actually the largest lobbying organization in the world." "The chamber is heavily funded by big oil, and spends huge amounts fighting on their behalf." "I'm all for green jobs, but we still need 20 million barrels of oil every day in this country and a lot of natural gas and a lot of coal." "Now the chamber was trying to block an exciting new climate bill that obama was supporting." "What could we do to stop them?" "I wanted to help take down the chamber, but there were a few little things" "I had to take care of first." "Yeah, okay." "[ Child crying ]" "You want some more?" "Where are you going out to?" "I'm going to work." "I'll see you on thursday morning." "Mwah!" "Dada, dada." "Aah!" "Today's momentous decision indeed comes after a difficult period." "In business -- I'm gonna change this slightly." "Oh god." "Seriously?" "What does that mean?" "I'm supposed to do this alone?" "We had rented a room at the national press club so that d.c. journalists would show up for our big announcement." "This is the, uh..." "About twentieth time I've done this, probably, and, uh, just as nervous as ever." "Thank you for coming today." "Today, the chamber's announcing a decisive step forward for the future of american business and the free-enterprise system itself." "To speak to this issue," "I'd like to introduce to you mr." "Hingo sembra, chamber spokesperson and speaking on behalf of president donahue." "Thank you very much, sheila, and a good day to everyone." "In business, as in life, we sometimes don't look ahead." "Climatologists tell us that if we don't enact dramatic reductions in carbon emissions today, we could begin facing the propagating feedback loops of runaway climate change, which would mean a disruption of food and water supplies worldwide with the result of mass migrations, famine," "and death on a scale never before imagined." "Needless to say, that would be bad for business." "There is only one sound way to do business, and that's to pass a strong climate bill quickly." "What we need is simply a carbon tax." "Mother nature means business, and we do, too." "In a reversal on climate change from the u.s. chamber of commerce... the u.s. chamber of commerce is now getting ready to throw its weight behind strong climate legislation." "And... wants a carbon tax, if you will." "Andy was impersonating the chamber at the national press club." "But since I was running late," "I went to distract them at their actual offices." "They're calling for a squad car now for some reason." "With who?" "Well, we'll call him." "Why don't you just go on outside?" "Come on." "Dave garble from the washington post." "Is there a sense from you guys that this is an inevitable thing and so you should get in to try to make... okay, I'm eric wohlschlegel." "I'm with the u.s. chamber of commerce." "This is not an official u.s. chamber of commerce event." "I don't know what pretenses you're here, but this is a fraudulent press activity and a stunt." "Who are you really, sir?" "Do you have a business card?" "Are you with the u.s. chamber?" " I-i do." " Can I see your business card?" "Can I see yours?" "Are you here representing the u.s. chamber of commerce?" "Yes, I am." "Okay, well I work there, and you do not look familiar to me at all." "Could I see your business card?" "Is this a stunt?" " Are you interrupting a press " " Yes I am." "Yeah." "Uh, this guy does not represent the u.s. chamber of commerce." " Can we finish the " " No." "If you would like to have a press conference, you can have your own press conference, sir." "What is your position?" "I just spoke my position." "What is your official title in the u.s. chamber of commerce?" "I'm the assistant to mr." "Donahue." "Okay." "This guy is a fraud, he's lying." "Um, this is, you know, a stunt that I've never seen before." "So, if you'd like to actually talk to the legitimate chamber of commerce," "I've got my business cards outside." "This gentleman I will assure you does not have any business cards, and he's not legitimate." ""Show me your business card." "no show me yours."" "they both look like imposters." "Do you got a business card?" "'cause you don't look familiar." "Actually, this sign-in sheet here." "I'm sorry." "Excuse me, sir." "We rented this room." "You're gonna have to refund us." "Fraudulently." "It's fraud." "It's illegal." "All right, so the u.s. chamber's denying it now." "All right, so... maybe not." "The u.s. chamber of commerce says it was victimized." "Victims of a hoax by environmental activists." "Apparently, it was a hoax." "Either there is a group or some people or a person... is there any involvement of the white house whatsoever?" "What happened today was fraud, and I believe is illegal." "And to misrepresent an organization, an institution, for the purposes of trying to advance climate-change legislation, it seems very disingenuous and very extreme." "You guys The Yes Men?" "Hmm... who?" "What was the point that you were trying to make?" "Without a strong climate bill, the u.s. will be behind the rest of the world, we'll be the laughingstock of the world, and we'll be dooming the planet." "Does it get to the point where you almost need to do something like this to get the attention for something you think is legitimate otherwise the story won't be told?" "No, I don't think it's the only way to do it." "When thousands vote with their feet and put pressure on government... how stupid is it not to address climate change?" "This stupid is it not to address climate change." "[ Siren chirps ]" "I think this is our country." "Aah!" "The survivaball will protect us!" "It also protects you against arrest, I think." "I'm not really sure." "Just today the chamber of commerce changed positions." "Not courtesy of The Yes Men with that stunt in washington a few weeks ago, but they're now saying, uh, surprisingly to me, and I'm glad about it, that they want to solve the climate crisis." "They want to get legislation." "Every week, I drive about three hours north of new york city to troy because for the last 15 years," "I've had a job there as an art professor." "My students know I'm a yes man, and they know we go by fake names." "I'm really igor and andy is really jacques." "The university's lawyers advised me not to talk about The Yes Men in class, but students are always asking me how we got started." "Jacques was one of the original programmers who were working on the simcopter, and that's the game that he altered 'cause he was so bored." "It all involves the unexpected appearance of some gay, kissing musclemen every friday the 13th." "[ Smooch ]" "So he was fired, but then a wired writer asked," ""well, isn't this gay activism because you put gay content in the video game?"" "And jacques was like, "yes, it is -- gay activism."" "He got in touch with me because I had done this barbie liberation organization project." "Their mission -- to free barbie and her very male plastic counterpart, gi joe, from sexual stereotypes by reversing their voices." "[ laughter ]" "Mike and I have been working together for about 15 years now, and it's really kind of taken over my life." "I also haven't really prioritized employment, so I've lost a lot of jobs that I've had " "Gone through them like toilet paper." "Umm... gotten fired, sometimes gotten fired on purpose." "This one is actually the first one that I've wanted to keep." "This is where I work." "I am a professor." "Yeah." "Yeah, me." "They hired me to be a professor of design." "I love it." "Another great thing in my life is that I, for the first time, have a boyfriend that I actually want to spend my life with." "But work I find easier than people." "I get engaged in projects, and he gets frustrated." "Okay, so, this is what just happened." "We were sitting here, a guy came up and handed andy an envelope, and it turned out to be a process server." "We're being sued by the u.s. chamber of commerce." ""With this complaint against jacques serving aka andy bichlbaum aka hingo sembra, igor vamos aka mike bonanno"... apparently we are engaging in "commercial identity theft masquerading as social activism."" "[ laughs ]" ""Defendant serving is also engaged in the business of making movies."" "Not a very good business." "They seem really upset about this commercial thing." "Business, commercial, commercial, business." "They've written a prayer for relief." " What?" " Yeah." "Let's -- shall we pray?" ""Plaintiff prays for judgment."" "Oh, this means what they're asking for." "We can't publish or distribute videotape." "An award of all our profits." "That's easy." "Yeah." "They'll owe us some money." "Yeah, okay." "This is actually really exciting 'cause it's the first time we have ever been sued." "I mean we have gotten lots of threats of lawsuits." "We've gotten maybe 20 of those." "So, should we be worried about this?" "Let's see." "It turns out we did have to worry." "If we lost the case, we might owe the chamber of commerce millions of dollars." "We could lose everything we owned." "Worst of all, losing this suit would set a legal precedent that wouldn't just affect us, it could make all kinds of activism illegal." "If nobody can speak out, the bad guys can get away with anything." "This came at a really bad time." "In just a few months, we were heading to the united nations climate conference in copenhagen." "All over the world, people were hatching ambitious plans to pressure world leaders to address climate change." "The maldives held a cabinet meeting underwater." "The maldives could be submerged by rising sea levels." "We were wondering what we could do when we got a call from kodili chandia, a climate activist with actionaid in uganda." "Kodili wanted us to visit her in uganda to help plan an action in copenhagen " "Something so bold, it would force the world to acknowledge what she called "climate debt."" "here's how kodili explained it." "People like andy and me who live in the usa consume a massive amount." "But people in places like uganda consume very little." "In fact, an average american creates 170 times more co2 than the average ugandan." "But even though people like kodili consume very little, they get stuck with the bill." "When climate change hits, the rich can try to rebuild or even relocate." "The poor can't afford that." "And currently, 400,000 people die every year from the effects of climate change." "[ People sobbing ]" "Climate debt means that rich countries need to compensate poor ones to help them adapt." "Hey!" "Hi!" "How are you?" "Good, how are you?" "How was your journey?" "Fine." "Very easy." "Wow." "The Yes Men are in uganda!" "[ laughter ]" "Kodili wanted to take us on a road trip so we could see what climate change meant for uganda." "[ Youths singing ]" "So, it's morning in kotido." "It's just an incredibly beautiful place, but life is increasingly hard." "In the us or europe, a flood or drought means prices go up a little bit for most people." "Here, it means people die." "Has climate change affected your life at all?" "In recent years, farming in northern uganda had become almost impossible." "But people were fighting back." "We sketched out a plan to get the climate debt solidly on the world's radar in copenhagen." "But climate change wasn't the only problem in uganda." "There was a bill going through the ugandan parliament that called for the death penalty for homosexuals." "[ laughter ]" "The professor does have to tell you." "Go ahead, professor." "It's just an awkward subject in uganda." "It's really awkward." "[ laughs ]" "No, but it's fine." "Um, yeah so, um..." "Yeah, it's 'cause I'm gay." "So, yeah." "What we know about uganda in the west is pretty much the kill-the-gays bill." "And we came here to talk about climate change of course, and all that, but then I was like," ""I can't not do something about it."" "To elucidate?" "Which part of gay?" "Well, let's see, the concept is... [ laughing ]" "Man, man." "Mm... [ laughter ]" "[ laughter ]" "These kids are just about the age of my kids." "Do you ever feel like giving up hope?" "Giving up?" "Before we could go to copenhagen, we needed to visit a place that was in large part causing uganda's climate problems." "Canada, a country known for its natural wonders, its universal healthcare, and its really polite people." "It's also home to the tar sands, a toxic zone the size of england where oil is strip-mined by destroying old-growth forests and pumping the earth full of chemicals." "Wow." "Besides causing cancer in surrounding communities, producing tar-sands oil emits three times more carbon than producing regular oil." "But canada and the u.s." "Are intent on massively expanding production, and on building new pipelines to help get all this oil to big markets abroad." "Our guide was gitz crazyboy, whose ancestors lived here for thousands of years before the oil companies arrived." "And there's hundreds of companies, right?" "Oh, there's tons of companies." "Wait, so this was all indigenous land?" "Yeah, all of..." "All of north america was." "So, this is, uh..." "This is a pond?" "Yeah, this is a pond of sludge." "This used to be the forest here." "Fuck." "Where does it stop?" "I mean, you look over there, and you can't actually see it stop." "There are bigger ponds than this." "This is not one of the biggest ones." "And it's just gonna keep expanding and expanding." "But then in the end, when they've extracted the last drop that they needed, they're gonna leave." "And when they leave, they're gonna leave nothing but toxicity in the land up here." "Are we dropping bombs on other people?" "No." "Are people's lives at risk?" "Yeah." "We've lost everything up here." "Walking out here is like being on the moon or something." "Scientists are saying that if we want to avoid catastrophe, 80% of the fossil fuels that corporations plan to exploit have to stay in the ground." "Otherwise, it'll be game over for the climate." "The copenhagen climate conference was coming up soon, and we didn't have much time to lose." "This is being called the most important climate-change conference in the history of this world." "Nearly 200 nations are on hand for the two-week conference." "The goal there -- a plan to save the planet from global warming." "The plan for copenhagen was really coming together." "I was kind of neglecting my boyfriend, and he was getting more and more frustrated." "I didn't know what to do." "[ Cheering ]" "After two years of negotiation, the time has come to deliver." "[ Applause ]" "Roar!" "We're at the cop15." "It's, uh, the big protest day." "Everybody's trying to do their part." "Some are working inside the negotiations trying to influence their delegations, and some are working on the outside trying to influence the public." "I mean, that's what's needed right now, right, is to have all of these different groups coming together." "[ Drums beating ]" "And I'm kodili," "I'm part of a global change class, and I'm a climate-debt agent." "I'm from uganda." "We introduced kodili to canadian activists who were pissed off that their government was destroying the planet." "We have been " "And this is also like, uh, to be kept on the down low " "We've been working with The Yes Men for the past little while to do a statement on behalf of the government of canada." "Canada is one of the main countries that's blocking progress, and it's because they sit on the world's second-largest oil reserve." "The plan was to impersonate canadian and ugandan officials and make a big announcement." "With nothing but websites, duct tape, and pipe cleaners, we got down to the high-tech business of becoming canada." "What we're trying to do is just recreate the pressroom." "These are the microphones." "They're supposed to look like these really expensive ones, and they're just pipe cleaners and kitchen sponges." "We'll just prop this up like -- Here you go." "Let's see, is that high enough?" "I don't think so." "No, it needs to be a bit higher." "Hmm, it's working." "Okay." "Andy showed up three days before the action." "There seemed to be something wrong." "[ Bell rings ]" "The night before I left, my boyfriend dumped me." "He said he'd had enough." "And I need her number again." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I was on a pretty short fuse." "And then I found out that mike had completely neglected the press releases that the action depended on." "I thought mike was leading the project, but all he did was like say" ""you do that, you do that, you do that."" "So, I figured, "okay, great, he's managing it,"" "but then he didn't follow up with anybody to make sure." "And mike used to manage before he was married and before he had two kids." "Just come." "Yes." "When andy got there, it wasn't depressed guy, it was angry guy... you clicked what?" "Wait what?" "...who was making it very difficult to pull together a project because, you know, we were working with a team." "I've got to get through here." "Want me to draw some lines?" "Little bit of salt and pepper." "This is great." "Meet the minister -- Well, not the minister, the assistant -- The deputy assistant secretary to the minister of the environment of canada." "[ laughs ]" "Okay." "Okay, we rolling." "Dearest delegates and fellow citizens around the globe, this is the day that will define our century." "Canada is fully acknowledging its historical climate debt and the legal responsibility that follow." "Climate debt reparations are not aid." "They are a legal framework that sets everyone on equal footing." "But to us it's more than mere economic issues." "It is about the droughts, the famines, and disease." "[ Applause ]" "The day began with this press release announcing the astonishing news that canada would generously pony up $13 billion to the african countries." "Then, there was this article on what looked like the wall street journal's website." "Then, a news conference purportedly by the ugandan delegate, posted on what looked like the copenhagen conference website... dearest delegates... it looked amazingly real until the speaker compared canada's oil reserves to a loaded gun." "...ready to pull the trigger on millions of us around the globe." "It was all a hoax." "Where is this?" "It totally has worked." "I was in the plenary session at the time that this happened, and I really can't comment any further." "You think it's a game, but it's not a game, it's a serious issue." "You're playing games, I'm not playing games." "Absolutely." "Okay, so what's your name, sir?" "My name is dick impala." "I'm with environment canada." "Well, I-i do, I represent them, uh, better than they " "Well, after today, better than hopefully we've had all day." "Okay." "Our feeling is that this whole question of hoaxes distracts from the actual fact that the world's future is in peril." "What is the message, what the world wants to hear is that the developed countries should pay their climate debt." "Uh, well -- [ click, dial tone ]" "All of this happened, the center of it was uganda, and nobody covered uganda, and this asshole -- they missed the fucking point!" "Sorry, nice guy, didn't want to talk about uganda, even when they have it in their face." "That is the whole story here." "Non-binding target, weak targets, weak financing " "It speaks to the failure of the negotiations." "[ Applause ]" "Governments caved in to the oil companies." "The climate talks failed." "If we're gonna ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change," "I don't think anybody's gonna go for that." "I won't go for that." "Stephen harper did not have to sign on to steep cuts in canada's prodigious output of greenhouse gas emissions, and for him that's mission accomplished." " What do we want?" " Climate justice!" " When do we want it?" " Now!" "The entire focus was on changing people, these leaders, on, like, getting these leaders to do the right thing, you know?" "Everybody was just thinking like, we were thinking -- 'cause I was buying into completely." "I was like "oh yeah." ""Let's go make our bit of noise in this bunch of noise," ""and, you know, these leaders are gonna listen and actually do something right."" "It just feels stupid." "There's even people who are trying who are part of the government, and they just fucking can't do it because the government's so corrupt." "So what do we do?" "Yeah." "How was your event?" "You should come to the next one." "We'll try to get the bail money ready." "I've never even been arrested." "On, no, I take it back." "Yeah, you were arrested in switzerland." "Oh, you're right." "That's true, mom." "[ laughs ]" "I also got arrested in mexico, now that I think of that." "I haven't been, but mom has been in jail." "Where were you in jail?" "Iran." "Why were you in jail in iran?" "I didn't know that." "Well, because I was traveling, and they couldn't read our passport." "We had our sleeping bags, and we said, "we'll worry about it tomorrow."" "And then they came out to tell us that we could go, we said "no, we don't want to go now, we have to sleep now."" "[ laughter ]" "My parents really taught us to question authority, and I think that goes way back to when they were kids in the second world war." "My mom's from holland, and she had to hide her dad so he wouldn't be conscripted by the nazis." "And my dad is a holocaust survivor who fled hungary when he was seven." "This is what we called "the land of yick."" "It was really the most excellent playground around." "It's like a little mussolini balcony." "One of us would be mussolini, and you go up on the balcony and make a speech." "[ Speaking italian ]" "[ Cheers and applause ]" "My fans." "[ laughter ]" "When we started working together, armageddon was just a fantasy." "Now we've got this real environmental-armageddon thing, you know, climate change, and governments aren't doing anything about it, and it just makes you completely despair and wonder why the hell you're doing activism at all," "why you're doing anything." "That's why dropping out becomes appealing too." "[ Sheep bleating ]" "We decided to move to scotland where my wife is from." "I finally got to spend more time with the kids." "I don't have a camera person, don't have any money, so I'm just gonna have to get the kids to be the camera people, okay?" "So, you hold it, and you videotape it, and this is what we do here." "Dad, I won't film your life." "Bye!" "I'm not filming your life." "Bye!" "[ Voice breaking ] a dead bird." "Oh, no." "Yeah." "Dad, get me a spade." "Is there anything that you want to say?" "Sorry, bird, that you died." "That's it." "Life is just a bit simpler in scotland " "There's good schools, and there's national health care." "Gotcha!" "See that?" "That is soon to be filled by another... baby." "Yep." "Another big reason for being there was that my wife, caz, was pregnant again." "I didn't tell andy." "He wasn't thrilled when I started having kids, so I decided to keep this one a surprise." "[ Middle-eastern music playing ]" "When mike moved to scotland, I felt more adrift than ever." "I knew I had to keep going, I just didn't know how, or whether it would even matter." "Then a friend of mine from greenpeace invited me to have a little talk..." "About the arctic." "It turns out the arctic is melting, and it's melting a whole lot faster than anyone thought it would." "That's bad news for bears, but it's even worse news for us." "For one thing, polar ice reflects the sun's heat, cooling the entire planet." "When the ice melts, the world heats up even more." "But what's happening underwater is even scarier." "Under the arctic seabed are humongous frozen methane reserves." "If they unfreeze, trillions of tons of methane will be released." "Since methane traps heat much better than co2, global warming will go into warp speed." "We should be freaking out, but instead, we're celebrating the melting arctic as a business opportunity." "The arctic is the scene for a new kind of international gold rush." "America, with its lands in alaska, is seriously interested." "Shell spent $4 billion dollars lobbying the government for permission to go drill in the arctic." "Would obama's administration sell us out?" "Of course we are here because of our shared concern and commitment to the arctic." "The melting of sea ice, for example, will result in the possibility to develop newly accessible oil and gas reserves." "Since the government was handing over the arctic to oil companies, the only way to stop shell was to appeal directly to public opinion." "They're going up and drilling, and the best we can do, really, is publicize that and give them an advertising campaign worthy of their company." "We wanted real oilmen to show up for what would be an obscene corporate party." "We've been talking about having a spigot that spews oil that's symbolic of turning on the oil in the north." "That drilling unit, what was that called - the kulluk?" "Kulluk is built by the company that built the deepwater horizon." "It was actually gonna be scrapped before they decided it should be sent to the arctic." "Our lead engineer started building and testing our very own kulluk." "This time, we're gonna have 5 actors, at least, plus 10 more." "It's gonna be like this theater production." "We've never done a theater production, and mike isn't even here!" "Mike is in london, scotland, wherever -- he's far away." "But, you know, it's fine, it'll be a different thing." "It just makes me nervous." "Um, yeah, I just wish he were here." "The nice thing about this kind of work, when you finish it, and it's done, and, you know, you feel like you got something done at the end of the day or end of the hour." "Whereas, like, a lot of the stuff with The Yes Men, it doesn't result in anything concrete." "The kulluk was docked in seattle, so we decided to throw our party there at the iconic space needle." "We sent out invitations to the entire seattle business community." "Okay." "Oh, boy. 7:05." "I'm so nervous even though I'm not doing anything tonight." "I'm just walking on, and I'm just hanging out, but I'm incredibly nervous as if I were performing." "My mind is so blank, even the words that have been scripted and that I will have in front of me..." "I am somewhat concerned that I will not be able to read them." "Yeah, there's nothing to be nervous about." "It's, um, people, uh..." "What do you say to build somebody's confidence?" "It is insane how close it looks to the real thing." "It's so realistic." "Uh... it's another one." "I'm googling "temperature of birthing pool"" "just to make sure that I'm not doing it at the wrong... temperature." "Uh, let's just put it up there." "[ Baby crying ]" "Oh, sweet pea." "[ Computer beeps ]" "Oh, it's mike bonnano." "Hey!" " Hello." " Oh hi." "I figured this baby could talk to you." "Yeah, good." "That's very helpful." "I've kept this a secret for a while, but I have another baby." "You do not." " I do." " You do?" "!" "I do. [ Chuckling ]" "Are you serious?" "Yep." " No!" " Yes." "What?" "Wow!" "Are you serious?" "Oh, my god." "That's insane." "Um... who here has not had three babies?" "Well, I wish to lodge a complaint." "All right." "[ Applause ] thank you very much." "Welcome to the launch for shell's arctic-ready campaign." "It's been a long time coming." "Shell is very excited to drill for resources that are accessible for the first time in history." "[ Rock music playing ]" "And to attempt feats of endurance that no machine has attempted before." "For centuries men and dogs have battled with the ice." "Now, finally, we're winning." "For the first time ever, the ice cover in the arctic has melted enough that we can get those resources." "Oh, yeah." "It'll be tough, and it'll be dangerous, but it is possible." "That's probably the main reason that our friends in the obama administration were happy to approve our plans." "That's right." "And we're glad to have them on our side." "Of course, climate change is scary." "The end of civilization, I mean, that's bad." "But in life, as in business, pragmatism trumps all." "Drilling in the arctic?" "Let's go." "We're pumped." "We're pumped." "[ Applause ]" "This is a scale model of the kulluk, which in eskimo means "thumbs up."" "The miniature kulluk is designed to kick off the festive part of the evening, uh, by delivering another precious fluid, uh, that we may imbibe." "So, we're gonna pour a ceremonial glass here, and I would like to be joined by our special guest, so..." "The widow of the late, great designer of the kulluk, mrs." "Enid applebee." "We would like you to have the first glass poured from the little kulluk." "[ Applause ] thank you." "Thank you." "So, put your glass right over here, enid, and we'll fill you up." "Oh my goodness!" "Aah!" "On, no." "Oh, my god!" "Help, please!" "Oh, please help!" "Stop." "Stop." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Oh my goodness!" "Who is responsible for this disaster?" "There's a bit of a spill, and I think -- this is cbs 12 news at seven." "This is all a hoax, an elaborate hoax, by a suspected environmentalist group." "This video got a lot of play." "[ laughter ]" "The activists are hoping to point out that if shell can't control a drink dispenser, how are they going to control -- so, this wasn't really a shell party?" "No." "Well, that's why I said it was a fake." "May I ask who I'm speaking to?" "My name is dave schechter, and I'm calling from cnn." "Please explain to me who it is I have reached." "Our leaked party video helped expose what shell was really up to in the arctic and the huge risks they were taking." "Shell could be opening up the entire arctic to the world." "Are they ready?" "Oil companies keep saying they can conquer the arctic, but the arctic keeps disagreeing with the oil companies." "Shell oil is preparing to send salvage crews to the waters in the gulf of alaska." "That's where one of its oil rigs ran aground on new years eve." "The rig is carrying more than 140,000 gallons of fuel and is sitting in a fragile ocean ecosystem." "After shell's arctic rigs ran aground, the u.s. pulled their permit to drill." "So what did shell do?" "They teamed up with gazprom to drill in the russian arctic instead." "Gazprom, russia's largest energy company, already spills millions of tons of oil per year." "But gazprom is puting's pet corporation." "When activists intervene, russia responds with bullets and the gulag." "We needed to do something almost as crazy as what gazprom and shell were doing." "But this time, I needed mike's help." "Andy keeps trying to get me to help with a new action, and, well, he has a point." "This news about what shell's doing with gazprom, it makes the most basic instinct about parenting " "Protecting your kids -- Into a huge dilemma." "Should I just raise them in the safest place possible, or should I try to stop these maniacs from destroying their future?" "I agreed to help andy with his plan to attack shell on their home turf." "People needed to know about the partnership between gazprom and shell, the netherlands' biggest company." "So we'd pose as gazprom, and deliver to the amsterdam zoo a spectacular gift freshly kidnapped from the russian arctic." "Jesus christ." "Want to see inside?" "Who's in the ass and who's in the head?" "Eh, I was in the ass earlier." "[ Chuckling ] okay." "I love it in here so far, but when you're in," "I'm not so sure I'm gonna love it." "My head is gonna be right up your ass." "Ahh, shut up." " God damn it." " Shit!" "Did you wash at all today or yesterday?" "Yes, I did!" " Okay." " Ready?" "Uh, left, right, I mean left..." "I don't know how bears walk." "Okay, are we in the cage?" "we're in the cage." "Should we fall down?" "Okay, ready?" "All the way down, and then we're falling." "Yep, one, two three." " Ow!" " Oh sorry!" " Oh, right in the eye." " Are you okay?" "I was super relieved mike was here." "It meant that this time," "I didn't have to coordinate everything." "Wait, we're not playing the tuba, though." "We're just standing around like dopes, right?" "Or no?" "No, you're in the band." "Oh, we're playing instruments." "[ Sour notes playing ]" "So what else are we doing?" "We're wearing costumes, we have to get on the boat." "I was a little concerned." "I mean, I thought this was andy's plan." "Oh yeah, I wanted to know why you thought it didn't make sense." "I was saying that it's super complicated, that's what I was saying." "Well, yeah, but so is a lot of what we do." "It just becomes simple, doesn't it?" "The boat shoves off, and then the two " "The leo, the russian... [ laughter ]" "Andy. hi." "The actor playing our gazprom representative arrived." "[ Russian accent ] papa bear!" "He was super enthusiastic." "There was just one small problem." "My english is bad?" "Bad." " Yeah, it's good." " Yeah." "It's perfect." "It's perfect amount." "Yeah, but I know not a lot of words." "I did my best to explain what we were about to do." "So basically, the bear is in the cage." "The barge is parading through the canals before the bear is presented as a gift from gazprom to shell and the people of holland at the zoo." "And... action." "Gazprom is here help to shell." "To help shell." "Gazprom is here to help shell." "Oh." "And already we help safely relovate reindeer." "Say "relocate" for me." "Relocate." " Relocate." " Shit." "We freed bear firmty... [ laughter ]" "Firmly... for..." "C'mon." "What is funny?" "Firmly for safely." "Safety." "Safety." "Firmly for safety." "It was time to launch." "Oh, it's so creepy." "[ Russian music playing ]" "[ Boy singing in russian ]" "Okay, and down." "We had tipped off some reporters that a big announcement was gonna be made at the zoo." "Now watch the poles!" "Here we go, okay." "Okay, okay." "No go at the zoo." "But we could still pull this off." "Ladies and gentlemen, this not just a bear." "This... the heart of russia." "For me, very, very, very, very, very important." "Important in my life, important for my family." "And now, I give this for you, for you company." "Shell and gazprom together!" "For future!" "And makey!" "Only!" "Everybody!" "Funny!" "No, sorry." "Fantastic." "Sometimes things don't work out exactly right." "[ laughs ]" "Sometimes then afterwards you wonder," ""how did I not realize that was not gonna work out quite right?"" "Hmm." "Doesn't it seem pretty obvious now that that wouldn't work?" "Oh yeah, let's get some food." "Good idea." "You're not answering." "[ laughs ]" "I dunno, it just seems like it was prone to -- it was doomed." "Whenever we would do actions, I would always think like," ""this is the one that's gonna change everything."" "I would convince myself of that." "And then afterwards there would be this huge depression like," ""oh, it didn't change everything."" "I decided to go recharge my batteries." "This is where we should get gas gas is really good here." "It's, like, got this special little kick." "Umm..." "Oh fuck, it's shell." "[ Scoffs ]" "Now that we have more daylight, you need more energy to enjoy the outdoors." "Come inside and grab your favorite energy drink today." "That's true." "No." "I just pressed "no."" "rockstar energy drinks and harley davidson motorcycles." "Hmm. no." "Now that I have your attention " " No." " Buy any two rockstar... no, no, no, no." "...16-ounce cans at our two -- mute." "This is my high school." "Oh, there's a high school student." "Hello." "They did not have that when I was here." "That." "I was a jewish kid in arizona," "I was a little gay kid in arizona," "I was the child of immigrants." "It was just a soup of weirdness." "My dad grew up in belgium during the holocaust and had to hide out on farms." "My dad's dad went to auschwitz." "If you grew up fleeing the nazis, it was pretty obvious, I guess, that power didn't always tell the truth, [ chuckles ]" "And it couldn't always be trusted." "This is the airplane graveyard I used to come to in high school when I needed to get away from everything." "But then I rediscovered how fun people could be when I was a junior." "I told everybody that I was the grandson of the ayatollah khomeini who was public enemy number-one at the time." "That's me!" "I'm his grandson!" "At first, nobody believed me, and then eventually a lot of people would come up to me and say "are you really the grandson of the ayatollah khomeini?"" "[ laughs ]" "That was the first time I realized" "I could just make up another identity for myself in real life." "When mike and I started doing this kind of work together, it was the first time in my entire life that I was just doing something and not questioning whether it made sense." "And then when that broke down, I was kind of in this pit of, like, "what good is this?" "Will anything ever change?"" "an extraordinary act of daring in the country of tunisia." "People took to the street and forced out one of the toughest dictators on earth." "In a three-week period, a series of non-violent, democratic movements have toppled three governments throughout the middle east." "Governments are worried that a revolution by the people, for the people might be headed to their country next." "We watched spellbound as people around the world rose up against overwhelming odds." "Tens of thousands have voiced their fury over unemployment and the apparent indifference of mainstream politicians." "And then in new york, a protest erupted " "Not just against government, but against everything that was wrong with our system." "Occupy wall street -- The protest to growing income inequality in this country." "Environmental issues, health, education." "Is this the french revolution?" "Are they lenin and trotsky?" "I don't know what they are." "And some are calling this the us version of tahrir square." " I am here from egypt..." " I am here from egypt..." " ...just to lend my solidarity." " ...just to lend my solidarity." "We are a part of the global revolution... we are a part of the global revolution for social and economic justice." "...for social and economic justice." "Young people are aiming to overthrow the u.s. financial system." "And, I mean seriously, there's like a real, you know, chance for change here." "And because of them, the entire world knows that there's a major problem here." "It's incredibly effective." "[ Brass music playing ]" "Can anyone call a general assembly?" "Do you know?" " Our process..." " our process..." " ...is direct democracy." " ...is direct democracy." " There is no..." " there is no..." " ...hierarchy." " ...hierarchy." "[ Cheers and applause ]" "Who knew that so many people felt the same way that we did?" "I gotta pay bank fees like you, and I see corporations getting money handed to them, and the C.E.Os making five, six million dollars after they took money to bail them out " "That pisses me off, too, man." "C'mon." "Since even the cops were fed up, maybe they should join a protest." "Hey, are you using those pizza boxes to sleep on or...?" " Yeah." " Oh, okay." "[ Chuckles ] we want to make signs." " Oh, you can take them." " Yeah?" " We're done with sleeping." " Oh, okay!" "Huddle." "Huddle, everybody, huddle." "Huddle." "Huddle." "Huddle." "All right, so this is the deal." "We are going on a brokers' march." "We try to get police to go with us." "[ Chanting "get the bull!" ]" "[ Chanting "wall street is our street!" ]" "As we walked, more and more police showed up to make sure we didn't cause trouble." "[ Chanting "brokers and police for the occupation!" ]" "It finally made sense to me why we'd been doing stuff for so long." "You're part of something, and then boom " "Anything can happen." "Basically we had given up, and then suddenly people were there fighting for their future, and they saw the connection between the money system and the environment." "[ Chanting, "hey, obama!" "We don't want no climate drama!" ]" "Wall street's been occupying the atmosphere for 25 or 30 years." "We can never get anything done because big oil just puts the kibosh on it." "Everybody's finally just saying, "enough." "Corporations don't get to run everything all the time."" "we are at a tipping point for this environmental movement." "With enough pressure, we can change history right now!" "Today!" "[ cheers and applause ]" "In every way, occupy was exactly what I was looking for." "It felt like when I first started working with mike " "It just flowed." "The entire way that we got started when we were doing the anti-globalization stuff was by working as a little cell that contributed to a big movement." "It was a global movement." "I hadn't felt part of something like that in a really long time." "On occupy, cities across the country telling wall street protesters time is up." "In the middle of the night, new york city police raided and cleared out the occupy wall street encampment." "Move!" "Move!" "[ People screaming ]" "What are you doing to her?" "!" "You gotta move." "Let's go." "Get back!" "[ Cheers and applause ]" "Let's go, sir." "It's that or you go to jail!" "Let's go right now!" "Move!" "What you're doing now is illegal." "You know what?" "You know what?" "It's within my rights to videotape." "No, it's not." "Why are you pushing me around?" "!" "Sir!" "I'm not fucking with you." "Sometimes, if you get pushed around, you just want to push back harder." "Can we get cameras on them arresting?" "!" "We decided to move back to new york." "This is zucotti square after the eviction." "Just feels like nostalgia." "Like, the center of intensity is elsewhere now, and that's normal 'cause movements aren't just one thing." "Movements just, like, surface, and something happens, and then they sink and appear in a radically different way." "[ Wind blowing ]" "It's definitely weird." "Like there's three storms at once, and they're all hitting here." "The east coast bracing for a monster storm." "Hurricane sandy crashing on shore, winds now at 90 miles per hour." "It is chaos along the jersey shore." "This is the time to try to save yourself and your family." "6 to 12 feet of sea and river flow, fill low-lying areas of manhattan like a basin." "[ Siren wailing ]" "It's like the apocalypse has hit." "This is the new normal." "Climate change is a reality." "You see that city over there?" "No, you don't." "That's because that's manhattan without power." "I don't think I can make it through there." "[ Sighs deeply ] jesus christ." "It doesn't really end, does it?" "Look at these." "These are from the '50s." "Oh, shit." "Old family photos that have just drifted out." "[ Siren chirps ]" "The occupy wall street network just went into, like, full effect." "I mean, lower east side, um, you have it in sunset park, you know, you have it in rockaway." "We went, set up kitchens everywhere." "It was amazing." "It's amazing that a community-relief effort led by any volunteer that could go got here three days before the national guard and the red cross." "Occupy may have been kicked out of wall street, but the occupy networks were alive and well, and were busy trying to save the city that had evicted them." "Why are you laughing right now?" "'Cause -- [ laughing ]" "It was just announced that apparently our power is gonna be out for four days, and I live on the 19th floor." "[ laughing ]" "Wait for me." "[ Exhales deeply ]" "Hold on." "[ exhales deeply ]" "[ Sighs ]" "Here we go -- wine." "It was kind of weird, what you did in, um, seattle." "When I was in seattle." "[ laughs ] I withheld some information." "Yes, yes I did." "You didn't tell me that you were having a child." "This is not the way a friend behaves." "You never once said, "oh, congratulations about your first child, or your second child."" "really?" "I never said congratulations..." "About child one or child two?" "I... i don't -- No, I don't think so." "I'm probably, actually, probably a bit jealous." " Really?" " Yeah." "You have this thing that you love, and it loves you and -- Am I romanticizing it?" "No, no." "It's exactly the way it is." "[ Both laugh ]" "That's accurate." "I know you didn't have kids to hurt me, but -- [ laughs ]" "Like, it means that I haven't had a partner to work with." "Okay, I should have..." "I should have told you about the baby." "I should have told you about the baby." "You have three kids, and we fly around in airplanes, and we eat meat." "Yeah, we're hypocrites!" "We grow up thinking that you have to get ahead by getting a better job, thinking that you have to accumulate as much wealth as you can, thinking about all these things that become like breathing." " Mmm-hmm." " How do we change that?" "How do we deal with that?" "That's it, yeah." "You have to change the whole culture." "That's what it is." "I mean, it's like, it's revolution 'cause it's, like, really changing everything." "You know why I stay optimistic even though it's completely kind of irrational?" "There are so many struggles that have won that seemed completely impossible to win." "And climate change certainly seems enormous, but it seems when a lot of people decide to do something, they succeed." "He's still sleeping." "He's still alive." "Power's still out." "Want a breakfast pear?" "Yeah, awesome." "Mmm." "I made it." "I've become very good at making pears." " So, we have to work." " Yeah." "We have to get back in the saddle." "I mean, cheers." "Cheers." "To saddle." "Yes." "We knew there was a way to pull the plug on big oil." "It was time for a showdown." "Ever since we'd met gitz, we'd wanted to do something together." "Posing as government bigwigs, we would infiltrate a homeland-security conference and announce that the u.s.a. Was outlawing fossil fuels and replacing them with renewables." "And the best part?" "The new wind and solar power plants would be owned by native tribes as partial reparations for genocide." "To actually have white people wearing bands that say "native headdress,"" "and instead of a feather, a windmill, this is us making fun of the american ideal of what it is to be indian." "This would truly be a second thanksgiving." "I told the conference that I represented general colin powell, and they were pumped to have him speak." "So, our speakers are running just a tad late, but we're not gonna worry about it." "General colin powell is, uh, coming to speak to us, and he's bringing a couple of colleagues." "General powell, of course, would not show up." "But his colleagues were nearly there." "Oh, my god." "You guys!" "Is this not gonna be a total giveaway?" "No." "Is there a way to like, you know, maybe..." "Make it a little less..." "Like it is?" "[ laughter ]" "Who's the other presentation you have?" "Well, the admiral, and e's followed by the deputy of the secret service." "So, you've got two, like, exceedingly senior people." "Okay." "All right." "Well, I'm gonna just confirm with them because he's so late," "I'm beginning to wonder what's going on." "This is mr." "Benedict waterman." "Hi, barbara alexander, I'm so glad to meet you." " Hello." " Hi." "I'm nervous." "Me and tito are sitting down, we're trying to make small talk." "These guys weren't exactly tree-hugging eco freaks." "We had an aspiring republican congressman, a two-star general, lots of defense contractors, and weird security guards in trench coats." "How would they react to an energy revolution?" "Our first speaker is, uh, undersecretary of policy implementation at the department of energy, mr." "Benedict waterman." "[ Applause ]" "On behalf of the department of energy," "I'm very excited to announce today a great new plan that will do nothing less than convert the united states' energy grid into one that's powered entirely by renewable sources." "As the dire reality of climate change becomes more and more inescapable, people will take the future into their own hands." "And historically we know that popular resistance is a force that can only, with difficulty, be countervailed." "A revolutionary energy program today is easier than a real revolution tomorrow." "[ Light applause ]" "By 2030, america will produce 100% of our energy from renewables, establishing us once again as a global leader in confronting the supreme challenge of climate change." "[ Applause ]" "We're excited to be working with the bureau of indian affairs and some of the largest tribes from arizona to the dakotas to site major wind and solar facilities that will provide a large chunk of america's power." "The tribes will own these facilities, they will provide an enormous stimulus to the economy, and great resilience in the face of future threats." "It's time for a second thanksgiving." "[ Applause ]" "I am bana slow horse, and the director of industrial development for the bureau of indian affairs." "I am a member of the wannabe nation." "Joining me is my nephew here." "He's a fire chief, a war chief, a water chief, and he's actually also a midwife." "Helps young mothers." "[ Applause ]" "There's a long, sordid history between the americans and indigenous peoples, and it always hasn't been a beneficial relationship, at least not to us." "For the first time, we have a voice, and we will own, truly own, this new energy production, and that's progress." "And it will build us a stronger economy, a brighter future, it will give something our children." "[ Shrieks ]" "[ Applause ]" "There was a lot of work done on benedict's behalf, just want to acknowledge and honor that." "So, I actually went and killed a deer, I tanned the hide myself." "[ Applause ]" "I give you this gift." "[ Applause ]" "To mark this grand occasion between our two peoples, um, we want to acknowledge this with a round dance, and I encourage everybody to join us together." "We just... form a circle around us if it's possible." "All the way around." "Yeah, we can do all the way around." "Ladies and gentlemen, uh, excuse me." "I composed this song for this occasion," "I made it a simple song so we can sing it together because it's not just my song, it belongs to all of us." "♪ Wayahey" "♪ Wayahey" "♪ Wayaho" "♪ Wayaho" "♪ Wayahay" "♪ Wayahay" "♪ Wayaho" "♪ Wayaho" "♪ Wayahey, hey, now" "♪ Wayahey, hey, now" "♪ Waya-hohoho" "♪ Waya-hohoho" "♪ The sun gonna shine" "♪ The sun gonna shine" "♪ The wind gonna blow" "♪ The wind gonna blow" "♪ That's all we need" "♪ That's all we need" "♪ To continue to grow" "♪ To continue to grow" "[ cheers and applause ]" "Uh, it would be worthwhile, I think, to get an opportunity to perhaps chat with you or your staff or whoever you deem appropriate." "Absolutely." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "So, I have a lot sisters and, uh..." "Definitely, definitely." "That's fantastic." "So excited." "Great." "I was surprised to see someone from northrup grumman acting so excited." "You weren't talking about weapons, you're talking about renewables." "You know, surprisingly enough, most people are not megalomaniacally insane, even people who work for northrup grumman." "And if they're given the opportunity to, uh, do what they actually believe in their hearts is the right thing, they go with it." "The fact that we could get all these people that we think of as being from the dark side to dance in support of renewable energy is that there are very few people who actually want us to continue on this fossil-fuel path." "And we have to force our leaders to actually do what we need them to do, and then people will follow." "Except for a few oil-company execs." " Good stuff." " Thank you, thank you." "Don't forget that song now, you sing it anytime." "[ laughter ]" "Can getting a room full of defense contractors to dance for energy revolution actually change the world?" "[ laughs ]" "Probably not on its own." "But what we've realized is to keep going, we've gotta be part of something bigger than ourselves." "And that's the only way we're going to win this fight." "What's this movie about?" "Well, the movie's about what we can do to help make sure that things are okay in the future, you know, for you." "There's a lot of people who are just, like, making a lot of money, sometimes in ways that aren't very good for the world." "But why money?" "It's just a stupid old piece of paper." "That's a hard one." "But you know, there's also a lot of people fighting back, changing -- like you do, 'cause you're making movies to stop it!" "[ laughs ]" "It's only a little part of stopping it, what we do." "Wait a second." "This movie can't end that way." "Why not?" "It's not a movie about walking into the distance, holding hands." "I don't see anything wrong with that." "No, it's like a cowboy movie or something." "It's nice." "It feels good." "We want people to see this film and go out and do something themselves." "Like, maybe using our website." "Yeah, but you can't see people participating through a website, can you?" " No." " Not very good for a film." "No." "So here it is at the end of a film though." "It's good for the credits." "Okay, take a look here." "This is a fake website, and the victim of this hoax is peabody energy." "The fake website says the company would offer free decorated inhalers to children." "It wants to make asthma cool by making their inhalers look cool." "[ laughter ]" "Get this, a major american corporation, out of the goodness of its own heart, donating billions of dollars." "Activists were behind this to shine the spotlight on g.e." "For not paying any u.s. taxes." "I pay my taxes, why doesn't g.e.?" "If you are stopped and frisked three times by the nypd you get a free happy meal?" "Fill out your name, ethnicity, after three stops, you're in." "Exchange it for a free happy meal." "Oh, and one more thing." "Remember that lawsuit?" "Well, after four years, just as it was about to head to trial, the chamber decided to drop it." "The chamber of commerce is withdrawing their lawsuit against us." "If this lawsuit had gone to trial, we would have had the right to do our own investigation." "We would have been able to look into the chamber's finances." "And we would have been able to learn how they manage to be the most heavily funded lobbying organization in the world to support corporate rule without limits." "And we finally do have business cards." "Yes, we finally have some business cards." "Um, incidentally, the chamber is offering a free lunch today." "They're having a conference on how big business can impact the measure of government, and it's listed on their website." "ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if any of you ...that you have a right to a free lunch here ...are legitimate media, if you just go and sign up." "Sorry." "Whatever he's told you, at least as to lunches, it's not true, so... it does say so on the website." "Do you have a business card?" "I do indeed." " I have a business card." " I know." "Are you sure you work for the chamber?" "Okay, thank you very much." 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