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The Yes Men will be in Chicago for the premier of their new film The Yes Men Fix the World. Lumpen Magazine will be hosting an event for them at the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:30pm.
There will be a presentation of their recent work and a workshop for an action will be planned for Friday October 30, 2009 after the premier of their new film at the Music Box Theater.
We will be planning actions. Come by and and help us decide what they might be.
Recent news of their actions:
Fake Reporters Part of Climate Pranksters’ ‘Theater’
Interview with Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men
Survivorballs take Manhattan and Pittsburgh
This will be a very important event for Chicago and the US. Show your frustration and anger at how the banks have screwed over America. Find out what is to be done! Go to the Showdown! From the site:
The same financial institutions that caused the economic crisis and took billions in taxpayer bailouts are back to earning incredible profits. Meanwhile, Americans face shrinking pensions, rising foreclosures and unemployment, state budget cuts, predatory lending, outrageous overdraft fees, and sky-high credit card interest rates.
The American people want oversight, accountability and common-sense financial reform NOW. This is the classic David vs. Goliath fight, with Wall Street spending millions and millions on lobbying to defeat reforms that would protect the American people and our economy.
JOIN US on October 25-27 for a series of demonstrations when thousands of Americans – retirees, farmers, workers, homeowners, renters, students, clergy, and small business owners – come together on the streets of Chicago to demand a banking system that puts the American people first and a Congress that makes it happen! Take a look at the Showdown schedule of events, stay informed about event details and join our mailing list, and fill out the Showdown inquiry form to tell us when and where you want to plug into the fight!
//// Resources /////
Showdown in Chicago
Stop Bank Greed
American Bankers Association
Check out Dean Baker’s Won’t you Please Come to Chicago
and email the link to your mom.
And now for your Forecast of Doom! For those of you who can’t wait until the new end of the world in 2012, don’t worry, your self indulgent witty existence will soon end.
Everything you think is true will end. It is the end of the American dream, we all needed to wake the fuck up and now that we have, well, we see our country has been a sham for a hundred years. We were sold into wage slavery. It’s all post tense now out there, the talk, the chatter in the conspiracy world. “This is the story of how we got to this pivotal point in history when freedom draws its last gasps.” Game over. Back to the future. October 25th is a date of doom picked out by a couple of computer simulations: timewave zero and the web bot, and will involve Washington D.C. being nuked. This will be followed by martial law, global war, etc. If you don’t meet your end then, just wait a month. On November 21st aliens land in Sarasota. On the 27th, the day after thanksgiving, Obama will come on TV and say how we have been in contact with 6 ET species. In December, Obama will sign a Global warming treaty, that will essential tax us into a redistribution of wealth. We pollute more so hand it over to those who don’t. A new international currency will be a very logical move at that point and accepted as an after thought. We will then be resettled in the country into tribe like units. We are living in interesting times. If you feel hopeless and suicidal, don’t kill yourself, stick around to watch the end of the world.
~Derek Denton
Forecast of Doom appears in Issue # 113 of the print edition of Lumpen Times .
Title says it all. What you thought were UFO’s, abducting gray men, the tall Nordic type of alien, the tall telepathic inner earth beings, or whatever, were all really Nazis. In late 1946 Byrd took a small fleet to the Antarctic Neuschwabenland and turned back after he lost four planes. In 1947, the Roswell “crash” shot them down. If weird creatures were flying them, its because the Nazi’s created them in a test tube. Nazi’s got into the U.S. after WWII through scientist, and historically through the German Thule society-based ‘Skull and Bones‘. Obama bomba’d the moon, because of a Nazi base there! Interesting right? If no, thanks for reading, if yes, well, there is an Indy underground collaborative film-making feature in production on the subject craving your creative juices.
http://www.ironsky.net/site/
http://www.wreckamovie.com/iron-sky
Cheers,
Space!
Iron Sky Promotional Artist Rendering.
Consumer Joe goes for a drive.
He leaves the house a bank owns, drives a car a bank owns, and looks at all the houses and cars in the neighborhood the banks own too. Was it always this way? We all took the bait of easy loans, and exaggerated property price increases. We are all paying for it now in more than a monetary sense.
The housing bubble gum held our flawed economy together for a decade, then Bush’s war defended the petro-dollar. Saddam starting selling Oil in Euros in early 2001. The U.S. didn’t like it, Europe didn’t mind. Iran began threatening to sell oil through it’s own exchange a few years ago. The mortgage collapse/banking crisis has only fueled the anti-dollar oil frenzy. It is now to be a basket of currencies, a cornucopia of yen, rubles, yuan’s, and gulp Euros. The good news for the children of this planet is that the age of the oil empire is over. No more tumorous benzene exposure at the gas stations. If ending oil curbs global warming, if it exist, bonus. Will the dollar be replaced by the SDR? Special Drawing Rights have already been given to the International monetary fund, where Wolfowitz went to work after resigning from Rummy’s Pentagon if you recall. Drawing rights? Sounds like the play money our Federal Reserve has been printing since 1913. The Federal Reserve on the ropes gives us a real chance to get our country back from an international gang that is as Federal as Federal Express. So the bad news is for the freedom and constitution loving people of the world. Like every President after Kennedy, it doesn’t look like Obama has any interest in upholding the Constitution – Article 1 Section 8 – The Congress shall have Power: To coin Money, and regulate the Value thereof…bummer.
-Space
Are you a good little consumer?
Below is a simple test:
1.The Economy is:
a. I just need to be positive then everything will be OK!
b. Volatile.
c. Tanking.
2. When I hear the term “consumer confidence”:
a. It makes me cringe with guilt that I don’t feel more confident.
b. I have heard it so many times it doesn’t mean anything.
c. I think it’s some bullshit index some bankster made up.
3. When I need a product I:
a. Go right to the store, buy it and feel all warm and fuzzy.
b. Shop around for a good deal and then feel clever and fuzzy.
c. I get it second hand, and reuse instead of trashing the landfills.
4. Television commercials make me:
a. Zone out in wonderment at what I could be if I had that.
b. Have an unconscious cue that I can leave and go potty.
c. I don’t watch commercials unless they make me online.
5. When you watch sports on Sunday do you:
a. Feel bad you don’t have buddies over or aren’t at a bar.
b. Get a drunk and finally get to unwind for the week.
c. Wonder how we went from church and/or family to beer and/or violence on Sunday?
6. Politicians on TV are:
a. Informative and a good objective way to make a decision.
b. Like any other product being sold to you.
c. A totally mind-fuck con-job.
If you answered a. or b. on most of these you need to reeducate yourself or die a useless eater.
Cheers!
Derek
Capitalism: A Love Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujU
