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Speakers

JENNIFER ABBOTT

ALAN ABEL

MARK ACHBAR

MITCH ALTMAN

BILL AYERS

BRENT BAKER

BEEHIVE COLLECTIVE

ED BEGLEY JR.

SCOTT BEIBIN

STEVEN BLUSH

BOOTS RILEY of THE COUP

CHESA BOUDIN

BRENDAN BRAZIER

MAJORA CARTER

IAN CHENEY

ROSA CLEMENTE

ROBBIE CONAL

MOLLY CRABAPPLE

SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI

TIM DECHRISTOPHER

RICK DOBLIN PH.D.

HARRY/HARRIET DODGE

BERNARDINE DOHRN

JEFF "THE DUDE" DOWD

ERIC DROOKER

RON ENGLISH

JEFF FEUERZEIG

FLY

BRUCE FRIEDRICH

BRETT GAYLOR

SAM GREEN

DR. MICHAEL GREGER MD.

ALEX GREY

NASSIM HARAMEIN

MARK HOSLER

SILAS HOWARD

EUGENE JARECKI

DR. MITCHELL JOACHIM

NWENNA KAI 

SCOTT KELLOGG

SCOTT HAMILTON KENNEDY

MAHDIS KESHAVARZ

ELIZABETH KUCINICH

AARON TAYLOR KUFFNER (ZEMI 17)

PETER KUPER

DR. STEVEN KURTZ

STEVE LAMBERT

AVI LEWIS

ANDREW LYNN

M-1 of DEAD PREZ

OMAR MAJEED

RON MANN

KEITH MCHENRY

MONOCHROM

ISA CHANDRA MOSKOWITZ

ALISON MURRAY

INGRID NEWKIRK

ZACH NILES

JEHANE NOUJAIM

TREVOR PAGLEN

CHRIS PAINE

GREG PALAST

LESLIE JAMES PICKERING

TIM POOL

WILL POTTER

ELIZABETH PRESS

PAUL RACHMAN

JON REISS

BOOTS RILEY

FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ

DAVE ROSENSTRAUS

DAVY ROTHBART

RICK ROWLEY

MARK RUDD

JOSHUA KAHN RUSSELL

AMANDA SAGE

CHELSEA SEXTON

DR. VANDANA SHIVA

SHRINE

BILL SIEGEL

TIMOTHY SPEED LEVITCH

DJ SPOOKY (PAUL D. MILLER)

ANNIE SPRINKLE

RICHARD STALLMAN

TRISTAN TAORMINO

THE GUERRILLA GIRLS

THE YES MEN
(ANDY BICHLBAUM AND MIKE BONANNO)

SUNAURA TAYLOR

ONDI TIMONER

SETH TOBOCMAN

LANCE WEILER

BANKER WHITE

FRANK WILDERSON

PETER YOUNG

JOHN ZERZAN


PERFORMERS

999 EYES FREAKSHOW

A-ALIKES

DEAD PREZ

DJ JORO-BORO

GAMELATRON: Robotic Gamelan Orchestra

LOST FILM FEST w vj Scott Beibin

MR LIF

SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS

SCREAM CLUB

 

PRESENTATIONS + WORKSHOPS

 

AMERICAN HARDCORE ROADTRIP

ART IS A WEAPON: with Eric Drooker

CROSSING THE EVENT HORIZON: THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY OF SCIENTIST NASSIM HARAMEIN with Jamie Janover 

GRASSROOTS PR AND PUBLICITY FOR FILM AND BANDS

GUERRILLA AND VIRAL MARKETING FOR MISCHIEF MAKERS

GUERRILLA POSTER ART with Robbie Conal

ILLEGAL PUBLIC ART IN UNDER 5 MINUTES! with Monochrom

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY

THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL ROAD SHOW

OCCUPY WALL STREET #SOLIDARITYTOUR

PANDEMIC PREVENTION: BIRD FLU AND OTHER EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES with Dr. Michael Greger MD.

PUBLICITY AND PR FOR SOCIAL CAUSES with Mahdis Keshavarz

RUST - RADICAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRAINING with Scott Kellogg

SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS with VJ Scott Beibin

SELF-DISTRIBUTION FOR INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS, MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS

THE BIOFUEL REVOLUTION 101

THE BRICOLEUR EXPERIENCE with Shrine

THE HOW AND WHY OF EFFECTIVE ETHICAL MASS CAMPAIGNS with Scott Beibin

THE LATEST IN HUMAN NUTRITION with Dr. Michael Greger MD

THE SECRET BASES: EXPLORING THE PENTAGON'S "BLACK WORLD" with Trevor Paglen

TRACKING THE CIA'S TORTURE PLANES with Trevor Paglen

USING YOUR WITS TO WIN with Alan Abel



FILMS
(public screenings)

ABEL RAISES CAIN

BEYOND THE WALLS: THE BATTLE FOR IRAQ'S FUTURE

B.I.K.E.

BOMB IT

BRAD: ONE MORE NIGHT AT THE BARRICADES

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

CONTROL ROOM

DESERTER

GRASS

HORNS AND HALOS

HOT AND BOTHERED: FEMINIST PORNOGRAPHY

MOUTH TO MOUTH

POPAGANDA: THE ART AND CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH

RIP! A REMIX MANIFESTO

SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS

STILL WE RIDE

TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM

THE CORPORATION

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR

THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE

THE JENA 6

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

TRAIN ON THE BRAIN

WE LIVE IN PUBLIC

WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?'














 
The Evil Twin Booking Agency organizes club, campus, and festival tours for today's most mind expanding speakers and performers. Our issue and action oriented events are super entertaining, educational and fun for troublemakers of all ages. We can show you how easy and rewarding it is to set up consciousness raising events at your school or in your town focusing on social and economic justice, media, environmentalism, outsider art and the metaphysical. The Evil Twin Booking Agency is all about creating personal connections between passionate minds.
 
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February 2, 2012

 

We are proud to announce that Vermin Supreme is available for booking at events through Evil Twin Booking. He's quite possibly the best presidential candidate of all time! Yay!

 

CLICK HERE TO BOOK VERMIN SUPREME

 

- Scott + Liz + Tess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFXXAuDK1Ao&feature=player_embedded


November 17 2011

Evil Twin Booking is organizing the Occupy Wall Street #SolidarityTour with Justin Wedes from OWS indie media team and NYC General Assembly.

The #SolidarityTour was born out of the need for inter-occupation communication and training. It's a great way to learn how to start an occupation in one week, in a park, from scratch, and build a needs-based media center that will broadcast the movement into a million different neighborhoods every night. This workshop is awesome for people who like to make things happen.

If you'd like to bring the Occupy Wall Street #SolidarityTour to your campus,  please send us a request and the dates when you would like to host.

email us:

info [at] eviltwinbooking [dot] com

The OWS International Day of Action is today, November 17th.

If you are in NYC, after occupying the Stock Exchange, the subways and the square, come discuss the issues and see former Weather Underground member Mark Rudd, live, in "GRAMPA WAS A TERRORIST," at NYU's Steinhardt Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street, Room 105, at 7:30pm.

Mark Rudd led the legendary 1968 occupation of five buildings at Columbia University, a dramatic act of protest against the university's support for the Vietnam War. As charismatic chairman of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the largest radical student organization in the United States, Rudd became a national symbol of student revolt. He went on to co-found the Weathermen faction of SDS, which helped organize the notorious Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969 before going underground. Mark will speak about the intended and unintended humor of '60s activism.
Mark's talk is part of the "Revolutionaries Live!" lecture series organized by the Yes Men and the Yes Lab which examines how revolutions and moments of social change happen by speaking with those in the thick of it.

ENJOY!

And thanks so much.

xoxo Lizzie

October 4 2011

Evil Twin Booking's own Scott Beibin collaborated with Janel Sterbentz on the following documentary video focusing on consensus decision making and the NYC General Assembly (www.nycga.cc) at #OccupyWallStreet.

Thanks to Adbusters were kind enough to post it on their site :-)

Enjoy!
-Liz
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFygPMwbIM&feature=player_embedded
 
April 15 2011
THE YES MEN + US Uncut: General Electric to return billions to public - NOT
The punch line: General Electric's stock shed $3.5 billion, after the AP and several other reputable news organizations picked up and ran with the bogus story. Media response has been good.
 
The GE hoax was developed in a Yes Lab, an awesomely empowering series of workshops, brainstorms and trainings that help people and organizations carry out Yes Men-style actions on their own. To book a Yes Lab with your campus or organization, contact us.


The timing is perfect. GE recently came under scrutiny when the New York Times reported that GE - a company that posted more than $14.2 billion in profit —paid no taxes in 2010 and received a $3.2 billion tax credit.
 
Thanks so much!!!

xo Lizzie + Scott + Meredith
 
 
Wednesday February 23 2011:
 
DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF THE YES MEN??

The Yes Lab is a series of workshops, brainstorms and trainings that help progressive groups carry out Yes Men-style actions on their own.

The Yes Men have been doing their thing for about 12 years. Many of the best projects have been in collaboration with activist groups—the BBC announcement on behalf of Dow Chemical came out of a collaboration with Greenpeace, for example. We collaborated with a coalition of groups to release a much-improved end of the war edition of The New York Times. Also in collaboration with activists, we headed to the nations capitol and re-branded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and preempted Chevron's enormous new “We Agree” ad campaign with a satirical version of our own.

In part because of these successes, we've realized it's high time for us to get systematic about helping activist groups highlight life-or-death issues—with or without the Yes Men's participation. That's what the Yes Lab is all about.

The Yes Lab might be right up your alley if you want to learn about:

 - Using humor to open minds, share ideas, and change the world
 
 - Organizing an effective mass action with two hundred or so volunteers, minus a ginormous budget
 
 - Fooling mainstream press outlets using satirical releases and websites cobbled together with string,       thumbtacks and chewing gum.

 - Various other tricks and techniques listed at challenge.theyesmen.org

So far we've performed several Yes Labs. We've already seen some early successes - with more soon to come!

If you think you'd like to get involved, please tell us a little bit about yourself and what you hope to learn from a Yes Lab.
 
email us:
 
info [at] eviltwinbooking [dot] com

Thanks so much!!!

xo Liz + Scott + Meredith
 
 
 
Friday February 11 2011:
 
REVENGE (OF THE ELECTRIC CAR) IS NEAR:

In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to find the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.  With almost every major car maker now jumping to produce new electric models, Revenge follows the race to be the first, the best, and to win the hearts and minds of the public around the world. 

And we need your help to get the word out! 

For more information on how to book Chris Paine and Chelsea Sexton for a live speaking appearance, go here:


Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever.

The filmmakers are incredibly proud of how the film has turned out and we know it's going to entertain and educate countless viewers.  But how do we kick some oil industry tushy and get the film to you?  That's what comes next...

Take a peek at the trailer, and please spread the word and request a screening in your town if you like what you see.

http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/
 
ENJOY!!!
And thanks so much.
 
Lizzie
 
Friday November 19 2010:
 
Evil Twin Booking Agency speaker DR. VANDANA SHIVA is honored as one of the top seven feminists in the world by Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler [personal note: huge fan crush!] in Forbes Magazine.
 
 
or, email us
 
info [at] eviltwinbooking [dot] com
Ensler chose Dr Shiva for “breaking the silence, speaking truth to power, exposing atrocities and reminding us that women’s rights are inherently connected to the future of our world.”
 
The full story is here:
Thanks so much!
 
Excitedly,
 
Lizzie Cole
 
 
Wednesday, November 17 2010:

DO YOU WANT TO HELP THE YES MEN WRECK CHEVRON??
 
Evil Twin Booking Agency speakers The Yes Men, along with Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, pre-empted Chevron's new “We Agree” ad campaign with a satirical version of their own. The Yes Men's version highlights the very same social abuses Chevron perpetuates.
 
For more information on how to bring The Yes Men to your campus or community for a live speaking appearance or workshop, go here:
 
Join up and take it to the next level: http://theyesmen.org/wepaste

We've just added some fantastic new speakers, performers, and films to our roster, so take a second to examine further.

RICK DOBLIN PhD.: Executive director of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

AMANDA SAGE: Visionary artist
 
 
 
 
 
 
Friday, July 30 2010:

THE YES MEN NEED YOUR HELP!


Last week Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno released a unique peer-to-peer special edition of The Yes Men Fix The World with exclusive video of The Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce.

For more information on how to bring The Yes Men to your campus or community for a live speaking appearance or workshop, go here:

http://eviltwinbooking.com/events.cfm?view=SPEAKERS&artist_id=11


The Yes Men are relying on live appearances and community donations so they can finish filming their next feature, support upcoming mischief and pranks, kick some corporate/government tushy, and make the Yes Lab happen!

Download the special edition of The Yes Men Fix The World here, and please spread the word if you like what you see:

 http://vodo.net/yesmen


Because the Yes Men are being sued by the Chamber of Commerce, releasing the film as a free download and reaching out to the p2p community is the only way that this edition of the film will get seen by a lot of people. 

ENJOY!
And thanks so much.

xoxo Lizzie

 
 
Friday, July 2 2010:
 
DR. MITCHELL JOACHIM'S TED TALK: Don't Build Your Home, Grow It!
 
Mitchell Joachim grows organic houses, designs soft cars and movable cities. His ideas might seem futuristic, far fetched and Cylon-esque if some of them weren't already in use.  He presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: growing living homes by grafting trees together around scaffolds, and (animal-free) "meat" houses.

Mitchell Joachim is available for lectures and live presentations through Evil Twin Booking Agency. His talks are perfect for people wanting to learn about urban environmental issues and a visionary approach to science and architecture.

Contact Lizzie and Scott at our office (+1.215.473.0308) or email us, info [at] eviltwinbooking [dot] com,  to bring Dr Mitchell Joachim to your campus or town.

.

Also check out TerreFarm, Terreform's annual gathering of students, architects and scientists who develop new urban farming techniques. For several weeks this summer, TerreFarm will convert a Brooklyn rooftop into a testbed for modular growing methods, maximizing sunlight, and ultra-lightweight soil mixes for rooftop gardens: http://www.terreform.org/farm.html

 
ENJOY!!!

Lizzie


 
 
 
 
Wednesday, May 19 2010:
 
EVIL TWIN BOOKING AGENCY 2010 INTERNSHIPS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

The Evil Twin Booking Agency is currently taking applications for 2010 internships (starting now) in Philadelphia. We're seeking people who would like to have fun while helping us with outreach, production, and building out our sparkly new website launching this summer. 
 
This is great for people with eclectic interests who like to make things happen. It's awesome for folks interested in the arts, collaborative cultural production, socially responsible business, science, metaphysics, healing, and of course social & environmental issues.

We're looking for folks with all levels of experience and interest in these fields:
 
   - Campus and grassroots organizing
   - Event production
   - Publicity + promotion (web marketing and social networking)
   - Copy editing + content development
   - Journalism
   
   - Socially responsible business development (with an interest in B-Corporations)

   - Content management systems (Drupal + Wordpress)
   - Database management
   - Video / film production and editing
   - Radio production
   - Graphic Production
   - Animation
   - Data entry
 
If you'd like to participate, please send us a resume and the dates when you will be available. Also, tell us a little bit about yourself, what you'd like to contribute, and what you hope to learn from an internship with us.

Make sure to include "2010 ETBA Internships" in the subject field.
 
contact us on Facebook:.
or, email us:
 
info [at] eviltwinbooking [dot] com

Let us know if you're coming from out of town. We might be able to help you find accommodations. 

GOOD LUCK!!
& thanks so much.
xo Scott + Liz

 
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Wednesday, May 12 2010: 
 
 
 
 
DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF THE YES MEN??
 
The Yes Lab is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help progressive groups carry out Yes-Men-style projects on their own.  
 
The Yes Men have been doing their thing for about 12 years. Many of their best projects have been in collaboration with activist groups—the BBC announcement on behalf of Dow Chemical came out of a collaboration with Greenpeace, for example.

In fall of 2009, they collaborated with a coalition of groups to release a much-improved "climate edition" of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, and to launch an assault on the U.N. by sea ("Balls Across America"). Also in collaboration with activists, they visited Washington DC to re-brand the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, then headed to Copenhagen to successfully embarrass Canada about its terrible climate policies.

In part because of these successes, they've realized it's was high time to get systematic about helping activist groups highlight life-or-death issues—with or without the Yes Men's participation. That's what the Yes Lab is all about.

 
Please visit www.theyesmen.org/lab for more info.

 
enjoy!!
 Scotty
 
 
 
 
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Thursday, April 1 2010: 
 
 

To cap off April Fool's day, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are featured in Readers Digest -- really. And no, they aren't impersonating Angela Lansbury.
Andy and Mike finally arrive - at the geriatric ward.
 
 
 
Check out this amazing flickr set featuring TEABONICS: http://teabonics.com
 
 
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD DVD comes out today (April 1!). You can organize your own screening and use it as a fundraising tool. Whatever you do, it will help the Yes Men with their upcoming shenanigans and new projects, including the launch of the "Yes Lab," an institute to spread their techniques.
GET IT HERE!   http://www.theconnextion.com/yesmen/yesmen_index.cfm
 

Today The Raw Story features exclusive video of The Yes Men, Mordechai Tuchasman and Ursula Goldshiksa helping Mike and Andy to spread the word about the fake NYTimes by slipping a tiny exaggeration to the mainstream press. 1.2 million is a big number? Isn't it??

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0331/exclusive-yes-men-nyt-spoof
enjoy!!
 Scotty
 
 

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Thursday, March 18 2010:
 
 
Bill Ayers + Wayne Kramer @ Music+Revolution panel 3/18 12:30pm hosted by @eviltwinbookinghttp://ow.ly/1nD9o #SXSW
 
 
- The Yes Men Fix The World comes out April 1st on DVD http://www.theconnextion.com/yesmen/yesmen_index.cfm




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Thursday, December 10 2009:
 
ETB Agency at the COP15
We're in Copenhagen for the climate conference with The Yes Men, Vandana Shiva, Chris Paine and DJ Filistine. Take a peek at the schedule of fun stuff happening around Copenhagen. More to be announced soon. Yay!

Tuesday 15 Dec:

8:00 pm Chris Paine screening Who Killed the Electric Car? UN Environmental Chief presenting, @ Danish Film Institute

7:45 pm The Yes Men open for Gogol Bordello @ Hopenhagen, by the globe

Monday 14 Dec: 

7:00 pm The Yes Men host the launch of *HQ with Avaaz.org Climate Action Factory, Thierry Geoffroy and Ms Actionaid @ Gallery Poulsen, Frederiksholms Kanal 4, st th 1220 Copenhagen K

7:30 pm Reclaim Power Party Naomi Klein & Michael Hardt talk, 9:30 Filastine live, @ Fredens Eng, Christiania, Copenhagen


Sunday 13 Dec:

10:00 am Vandana Shiva presents The Third Pole, new film about the Himalayas and climate change @ Klimaforum Green Hall

1:00 pm   Vandana Shiva and Caroline Lockhart on the panel on the Manifesto on climate change and food security @ Klimaforum Orange Hall

Saturday 12 Dec:
10:00 am Vandana Shiva speaks on Organic Solutions w/ Shumei International @ Klimaforum Green Hall

12 noon Vandana Shiva speaks at Climate Bottom meeting @ Christiana, Meadow of Peace

1:00 pm Vandana Shiva speaking at the big march in Christianborg, Parliament Square

1:15 pm Vandana Shiva speaking at Talk at Meat panel: Holland Climate House, Bella Center

Friday 11 Dec:
9:00 pm: The Yes Men and Survivaballs on the Stubnitz

11:15 pm The Yes Men Fix The World screening at the Grand Theater

 
 
Tuesday, November 24th 2009
 
We have some very exciting news. The long wait is over and we should finally be launching our new website sometime in the beginning of next year. it'll be a fantastic tool for folks who organize events through Evil Twin Booking, so Please keep checking back.

Also, We've just added some fantastic new speakers, performers, and films to our roster, so take a second to examine further.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
delighted!
Scotty Beibin
 
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Monday, October 19, 2009, 4 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WILL THE REAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PLEASE STAND UP?

Business as usual; Chamber is its own parody

     Contacts: people@theyesmen.org, info@beyondtalk.net, 202-596-2357
     Complete comments: chamber-of-commerce.us
     News reports: Fox Business Network, CNBC, Washington Post
     Video and other updates: Please visit theyesmen.org/chamber

     TOMORROW: SurvivaBall rally, 10:30am, on the Capitol lawn, northeast corner, across from the Dirksen Senate Office
     Building

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a dramatic announcement at the National Press Club today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversed its position on
climate change policy, and promised to immediately cease lobbying against the Kerry-Boxer bill.

Not.

Within minutes of the Chamber's dramatic announcement, it was revealed that the "Chamber spokesperson" was an impostor, and the press
conference an elaborate hoax designed by activists to draw attention to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "troglodytic" fight against
climate change legislation. At the close of the news conference, a visibly rattled Chamber of Commerce spokesperson (Eric
Wohlschlegel) barged into the room and declared the event a fraud. (Video here.)

The stunt was pulled off by the Yes Men, the activists best known for posing as corporate executives in order to reveal how corporate
greed negatively influences public policy. Recently, the Yes Men have focused their attention on the urgent need for action on
climate change. Today they sought to highlight relentless corporate lobbying of elected officials aimed at derailing domestic climate
legislation and a much-needed global climate accord.

The group of reporters at the Press Club listened closely as U.S. Chamber "representative" "Hingo Sembra" (Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes
Men) asserted that the Chamber would put its full weight behind supporting the Kerry-Boxer bill, while working with Senators Kerry
and Boxer to strengthen the bill.

"We believe that climate legislation currently being considered by the U.S. Senate is a great start towards a bill that will spur
American innovation, create jobs, and give us all a good chance of survival," he said. To the visible delight of reporters in the
audience, he added, "We at the Chamber have tried to keep climate science from interfering with business. But without a stable
climate, there will be no business."

The Chamber has recently come under fire for launching multi-million dollar advertising campaigns designed to derail climate
negotiations. Their position has been so controversial that Apple, Exelon, PNM Resources, PG&E, PSEG, Levi Strauss & Co, and the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce have all left the U.S. Chamber, and Nike very publicly stepped down from the board.

"The Chamber's position against climate legislation is completely troglodytic," said Bichlbaum. "The rest of the world sees the need
for urgent action on the climate. The rest of the world's rich countries have pledged large emissions reductions. With scientists
saying if we don't reduce carbon emissions, then sooner or later we're doomed, the Chamber represents corporate America at its most
backwards."

"An entity claiming to represent the public good, but that opposes action on the climate, is obviously illegitimate," Bichlbaum
added.

News outlets were quick to jump on the story, including a Reuters story which was reprinted in the New York Times and elsewhere. The
Chamber's "about-face" was also reported on Fox Business Network and CNBC before the anchors were forced to retract in mid-sentence.

At the end of Sembra's remarks, Eric Wohlschlegel confronted Bichlbaum. In the stand-off, both accused the other of being a fraud.
The standoff ended with Wohlschlegel dispensing his business card to reporters in the room, and attempting to field a number of
pointed questions about the Chamber's real stance on climate legislation currently in Congress, which the real Chamber opposes.
(Video here.)

"Mr. Wohlschlegel was feeling defensive," added Bichlbaum. "He should, what with the Chamber's ridiculous stance in the face of all
science."

International climate talks are currently stalled, largely because the U.S. negotiators won't make any promises that Congress can't
keep. Breaking the gridlock in negotiations will require the passage of ambitious U.S. legislation within the next 2 months.

An official response from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce read: "These irresponsible tactics are a foolish distraction from the serious
effort by our nation to reduce greenhouse gases."

"The only irresponsibility and distraction here is the Chamber's doublespeak," said Bichlbaum. "They're pretending to support the
idea of legislation while opposing actual proposed legislation."

The Yes Men collaborated on



THE YES MEN (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno)  



Tim Pool  



Boots Riley (The Coup)  



Dr. Vandana Shiva Ph.D.  



Greg Palast  



Chris Paine  



Dr. Mitchell Joachim Ph.D.  



Nassim Haramein  



Ed Begley Jr.  



Chelsea Sexton  



Severn Cullis-Suzuki  



DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller)  



Brett Gaylor  



Alex Grey  



Annie Sprinkle  



Dr. Michael Greger MD.  



Rosa Clemente  



Majora Carter  



Shrine  



The Mountaintop Removal Road Show  



Jeff "The Dude" Dowd  



Elizabeth Kucinich  



Occupy Wall Street #SolidarityTour presented by Justin Wedes  



LOST FILM FEST with vj Scott Beibin  



DEAD PREZ  



Justin Wedes  



Vermin Supreme  



Brendan Brazier  



Ondi Timoner  



Isa Chandra Moskowitz  



Frank Wilderson  



Pete Tridish  



Craig Sim Webb  



David Mathison  



Peter Kuper  



Dr. Ryan Wartena Ph.D.  



Jose Palafox  



Justin Pearson  



Kate Magic  



Rick Doblin Ph.D.  



Amanda Sage  



Mitch Altman  



Josh Simpson (Leroy Stick)   



Jeremy Seifert  



AMERICAN HARDCORE ROADTRIP  



THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE (dir. Ian Cheney + Curt Ellis)  



THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (Dir. Jeff Feuerzeig)  



WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (dir. Ondi Timoner)  



2012: TIME FOR CHANGE (hosted by Daniel Pinchbeck / dir. Joao Amorim)  



DIVE! Living Off America's Waste   



SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS hosted by Scott Beibin  



Mr. Lif  



Molly Crabapple   



Barbara Carrellas  



Crossing the Event Horizon: The Unified Field Theory of scientist Nassim Haramein  



Big Freedia  



Utopia in Four Movements  



Bobby Joe Ebola and The Children MacNuggits  



The Vegetable Orchestra