{"id":1234,"date":"2015-08-20T05:55:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2015-08-20T05:55:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:55:32","slug":"actions-for-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2015\/08\/20\/actions-for-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions for the climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1234 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1234')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1234').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. N\\u00e4heres erfahren Sie durch einen Klick auf das <em>i<\\\/em>.\",\"settings_perma\":\"Dauerhaft aktivieren und Daten\\u00fcber-tragung zustimmen:\",\"info_link\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heise.de\\\/ct\\\/artikel\\\/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html\",\"uri\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenfilmshooting.net\\\/blog\\\/en\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/20\\\/actions-for-the-climate\\\/\",\"post_id\":1234,\"post_title_referrer_track\":\"Actions+for+the+climate\",\"display_infobox\":\"on\"});}});\n\/* ]]> *\/<\/script><\/div><p>\u201cClimate change is a fact. We have to do something about it\u201d, says Laura Nix, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/theyesmenarerevolting.com\/\">The Yes Men Are Revolting<\/a>. In their third documentary, the New York-based activists Andy Bichlbaum und Mike Bonnano are taking risky and sometimes absurd actions in order to point out the dramatic consequences of climate change. At a self-organized press conference they impersonated as representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and announced a radical change of climate policy in the U.S.. They even pleaded for the introduction of a carbon emission tax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, the activists announced in the name of the state of Canada that they are talking responsibility for the disastrous ramifications of the national quarrying of oil sand and are going to compensate the damamages. Although <em>The Yes Men<\/em> are already well-known, they still manage to surprise big companies and organizations. \u201cWe work with people like Benadette Chandia Kodili\u201d, explains Mike Bonnano. &quot;For the action that we did in Copenhagen in 2009, she was impersonating a government minister. Nobody recognized that she wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tSEjepPNgc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Yes Men Are Revolting<\/em>, the activists pretented to be Shell reps and presented an absurd campaign about the planned oil dilling in the arctis which exaggerated their unconscionable greed for profit very cynically\u2013 but nevertheless it was appreciated by the attendees. Meanwhile, the Obama administration approved Shell\u2019s plan to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic. Organizations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/campaigns\/climate-change\/arctic-impacts\/\">Greenpeace<\/a> are fearing accidents and a dramatic oil pollution with catastrophic consequences for the arctic wildlife. Before their film opened in the U.S., <em>The Yes Men<\/em> protested against Shell&#8217;s Oil Drilling. On a hot summer day in New York City, they dressed in Shell outfits and were standing in the street to hand out snow cones from &quot;Last Icebergs of North Pole&quot; .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/blog\/2015\/6\/15\/watch_yes_men_protest_shell_oil\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two New York-based professors were also confronted with a law suit from the Chamber of Commerce. But in the end, the case war dropped after four years. \u201cThey didn\u2019t want more attention on it\u201d, emphasizes Andy Bichlbaum. \u201cA new judge came in and decided that was an interesting case and made it move forward. And that was when the Chamber dropped it because actually they were just trying to scare us.\u201d For <em>The Yes Men<\/em> and other activitists it would have been interesting when the Chamber of Commerce would have revealed to funds in the discovery process. \u201cIt is very hard to find out who actually funds the chamber\u201d, underlines Laura Nix. \u201cThey do not want that information out in the world and it would become public knowledge. In the end they realized, even if they won they would lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/06_YesMen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1236 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/06_YesMen-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"06_YesMen\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/06_YesMen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/06_YesMen-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/06_YesMen-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/06_YesMen.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cYou have to look beyond the now-risk\u201d, says Benadette Chandia Kodili. \u201cFrom all the actions <em>The Yes Men<\/em> are doing, you would think by now they have 1,010 law suits somewhere waiting for them.\u201d But there is none. \u201cIf you always think about what you are allowed to do, you get paralyzed\u201d, underlines Andy Bichlbaum. \u201cSo we don\u2019t always think about what we are allowed to do by the authorities. We do what we want a s long as we have a good reason and we know that we don\u2019t mess everything up by doing it.\u201d But if necessary, they are taking legal advise. \u201cSince we had this lawsuit with the chamber, we are represented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation <\/a>which is an NGO in the U.S. that does amazing work\u201d, sums up Mike Bonnano. \u201cIt has represented further case law around free speech and copyright issues many years now.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cClimate change is a fact. We have to do something about it\u201d, says Laura Nix, Director of The Yes Men Are Revolting. In their third documentary, the New York-based activists Andy Bichlbaum und Mike Bonnano are taking risky and sometimes absurd actions in order to point out the dramatic consequences of climate change. 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