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Dear Friends,
The Yes Men need your help.
For years, we’ve been tossing our little buckets of water on the
blazes of social injustice. Last year, we decided to form a bucket
brigade: a system (we’re calling it the Yes Lab) to help others do the
kind of funny,
«Nowadays artistic practice should not be a modernistic practice, it
shouldn’t be a feticism on matter and form which respond to previous matter
and form. It should deal with actual cultural production. We try to produce
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http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/outofink/?p=399
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[What Mickey Mouse is to the US, Beatles are to Europe..]
EU regulators vote to extend music copyright for another 20 years
By Mark Brown
08 September 11
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/08/eu-copyright-extension
EU regulators in Brussels have voted to approve a controversial
For those interested, the Declaration is open for endorsement.
http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration
There is still time to claim a coveted spot in the top 500.
Cheers,
Joe
Joe Karaganis
Vice President
The American Assembly
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Press Release,
September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with
face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization
on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of
their facial
