Laura Gottesdiener writes:
Last week, a press release was released revealing a new website
apparently from Bank of America, YourBofA.com, followed by another,
seemingly hastily-written press release imploring readers to ignore the
“malicious website (YourBofA.com) that is fraudulently representing
itself as a Bank of America re-branding effort.” The second release
insisted that “Bank of America is not making plans to enter into federal
receivership.”
The malicious website (and both press releases) is another creation
of the activist pranksters The Yes Men — the group that has posed as
World Trade Organization representatives, George Bush henchmen and many
more, all in good, subversive fun. To learn how laughter can be the
greatest weapon of all, I sat down with Andy Bichlbaum, one of the
founders of The Yes Men last month at Scratcher Bar in the East Village.
Now, in addition to The Yes Men, The Yes Lab and teaching at New York
University, he has been involved in developing the Plus Brigades, a
project of Occupy Wall Street meant to infuse the movement with renewed
creativity in the streets.
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