#jacques servin

[yourdailyqueer]

Jacques Servin

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: Born 1963  

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Artist, activist, writer

[therumpus]

Stone himself bears much responsibility for creating the world of which he is a victim. And that’s the main point of the film: what our world does to all of us, even those who play a part in creating it—which, after all, is everyone.

Anomalisa, The Insanity of Capitalism, And The Power Of Culture by Jacques Servin.

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Actors join campaign to draw attention to Arctic issue

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Critics of Arctic offshore petroleum drilling have used climbing gear, kayaks and polar bear costumes to protest industrial activity in the Arctic. They're now trying humor. http://dlvr.it/CBR1Gy

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The Yes Men: Bir direniş yöntemi olarak iktidarın taklidi

The Yes Men: Bir direniş yöntemi olarak iktidarın taklidi

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nin geleceğe yeni bir kültür-sanat birikimi aktarmayı amaçlayan uluslararası misafir programı Boğaziçi Chronicles, The Yes Men’i ağırlıyor.

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Everything we have today that's good, people fought for it.

Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Man

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10.01.14 || FRIDAY FOTW - The Yes Men Fix the World

Documentary film following the exploits of the culture jamming activists ‘The Yes Men’; Jacques Servin (Andy Bichlbaum) and Igor Vamos (Mike Bonanno), whose aim is to raise awareness of problematic social issues. The film, a sequel to ‘The Yes Men’,…

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Who’s Who of the Occupy Movement: The Yes Men - Jacques Servin & Igor Vamos (pictured at an Occupy Wall Street march in October via the World Bulletin)

The Yes Men are two activists who use fake websites and corporate impersonations to make widespread statements about social issues. Previous hoaxes include Servin appearing on BBC World as a Dow Chemical spokesman saying the company would pay damages to those affected by the Bhopal gas leak. On another occasion, Servin played the role of a representative from the Department of Housing and Urban Development saying HUD would reopen public housing after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although they have been criticized for giving people false hope, the Yes Men maintain that sometimes "it takes a lie to expose the truth." 

The two have been active in the Occupy Movement, especially with the creation of the Yes Lab, an activist collective to help organize more hoaxes to bring media attention to social issues, including OWS. Although some believe the Yes Men to threaten Occupy's legitimacy, ultimately bringing more attention to the movement & exposing the exploitation of the 99% outweighs the possible negatives. 

For more information or to see their hoaxes in action, watch "The Yes Men Fix the World" (it's on Netflix Watch Instantly!).

"It’s keeping the ideas alive that things can be different, and that there’s something dramatically wrong with the world. So that when change is possible, those ideas are there. And now is a time when change is really possible.” - Jacques Servin

-G.Razo