yeslab "Want to do a Yeslab?"
Activist guide to setting up and doing a Yeslab, by The Yesmen.
"This is an email we got from the Diesel office.
Notice how there is no mention of workers rights, or rebuking any of the points raised by our website."
- www.dieselforwomen.com
A Brave New World for Female Factory Workers: Misopolis
Diesel is proud to announce a new milestone in its ongoing campaign for
successful living. To make a free lifestyle possible for young women in
emerging markets, it will help them conquer a key life challenge: the
right to safe abortion. Welcome to Misopolis, a brave new world for
female factory workers.
Clean Clothes Campaign release
Diesel says to take female workers' rights serious, with their release
of the campaign Misopolis (see www.dieselforwomen.com). With this
campaign Diesel wants to improve the living conditions of female garment
workers by distributing free abortion pills.
April 19, 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ON-THE-BRINK BANK STILL NOT YOURS (YET)
Dow Jones posts fake release for two hours; bank gets fake website blacklisted, briefly
Bank of America executives, investors, and opponents alike reacted with
surprise to yesterday's news - posted for two hours on Dow Jones Newswire
and elsewhere - that the mammoth financial institution, realizing it was
heading for a taxpayer bailout, was asking Americans to start thinking
about what they'll do with the bank once they own it, and to start
advertising that vision too.