Congratulations to "Adidas Owns the Reality" for being our #CLIFF2024 Best In Festival Award Winner! This award is chosen by CLiFF Board members to be the best in the festival and includes a cash prize. #labourfilms#laborfilms#cliff16@cleanclothes@theyesmen
In 2017, the Democratic establishment *didn't* champion measures that poll incredibly well across the political spectrum. We faked it, as a way to show it was possible.
Now? Please? https://t.co/t5eIwGlE6v
#dnctakeback
The documentary about our action with @theYesMen last year, in which we fooled the world into thinking @adidas hired a former garment worker as co-CEO is now touring the world! It won a prize last weekend in Malaysia & "co-CEO" Len was there to accept it! https://t.co/hU9gG1GXHy
Virtual Festival is happening right now through Wed night 10/30! Watch at https://t.co/cHh59EHDKC to see all participating films, on-demand and worldwide. Latest e-news: https://t.co/OHZueFvFFs
We're in Weimar for last days of a truly fun show of recent projects with #ThreadsandTits and @cleanclothes. All weekend Jeff will be sharing new, never-before-shown works! Come see it IRL while the weather is nice and @adidas is annoyed...
https://t.co/5PvBruXIdk
Remember how together with the Yes Men, we fooled the world into thinking adidas hired a former garment worker as co-CEO & signed the #PayYourWorkers agreement? Take a peak behind the scenes in a short documentary screening at festivals around the world: https://t.co/hU9gG1GXHy.
'Adidas Owns the Reality' is part of an exceptional line-up of 5 shorts tonight 10/18 at @cinema_village 8:50pm! Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax on Adidas! From @ConspireFilms, @theyesmen + @cleanclothes campaign. Tix/Info: https://t.co/r4iScbUPsw. #PayYourWorkers
Trickster activists the Yes Men collaborate with Clean Clothes Campaign and Berlin fashion designers to orchestrate an elaborate hoax announcement in an effort to improve conditions for garment workers and sustainability in the Adidas supply chain. @cleanclothes@theyesmen
See you at @BuffaloFilmFest! First our film about a terrible @adidas runway show: https://t.co/YP1fmUJaq0... #PayYourWorkers@cleanclothes
Then drinks at Duende for our all-new MISCHIEF MIXTAPE, w/free drugs from guilt-numbing pharma startup Dissonex®
https://t.co/YYVls6X6on
We're only 10 days away now from the kickoff of Season 13 on Oct 18th, starting at @cinema_village theater! Schedule/Tickets for in-person screenings on Eventbrite at https://t.co/0Ab5TfUz5G then Virtual 10/25. Our Activist Filmmakers Bootcamp is also back Nov 9th.
Our new film about a demented runway show exposing @adidas' abuse of garment workers, in collab with @cleanclothes and Threads and Tits, will show at Workers Unite! Film Fest. Come say hi!
OCT 18: https://t.co/68TQQpRhE7
OCT 19: https://t.co/0EMLTVO0ZM
#PayYourWorkers#adidas
Since launching the greenwashing emoji, @theyesmen, the activist group behind the campaign targeting liquified natural gas, have been hit with legal action by Condé Nast. You can read more about that here: https://t.co/9q2RoyDQez
I think Fair Use is an extremely important principle for creativity because Fair Use gives creators latitude to use, reinterpret, and comment upon copyrighted material. This principle is especially important for social and political commentary because parody requires the use of an understandable pre-existing reference such as a person’s likeness or a corporate identity. Fair Use is the vehicle for free speech, which might upset powerful people when their identities or intellectual property is parodied and critiqued.
I support the Yes Men and their right to incorporate references to Wired Magazine as they comment upon corporate greenwashing. The most powerful voices in media should be holding irresponsible corporations to account, rather than attacking creatives who choose to call out the same corporations given a pass by the media.
– Shepard Fairey
LNG is actually a #fossilfuel that when extracted, transported & burnt as a marine fuel, leaks methane into the atmosphere - a gas that’s over 80-times more climate-warming in the short-term than carbon dioxide.
#EndFossilFuels#LNGmethaneDisaster#UniteToSurvive
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International Maritime Organisation stop the #greenwashing & lobbyists of Liquid Natural Gas!
The IPCC states fossil gas LNG is NOT shipping’s decarbonisation solution. LNG leaks methane that’s 80x more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat in the 1st 20 yrs. 🔥
#EndFossilFuels