{"id":11824,"date":"2015-07-12T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2015-07-12T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T18:24:07","slug":"the-return-of-the-yes-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11824","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Yes Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/YesMenAreRevolting_poster_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11823\" alt=\"YesMenAreRevolting_poster_s\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/YesMenAreRevolting_poster_s.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>The infamous activist \/ pranksters return in <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11822\"><strong>The Yes Men Are Revolting<\/strong><\/a>, globe-trotting to various international destinations and coordinating elaborate pranks to shame bad governmental decisions and corporate antics.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the film&#8217;s release (currently enjoying an exclusive run at the <a href=\"http:\/\/boxoffice.hotdocs.ca\/WebSales\/pages\/info.aspx?evtinfo=42053~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&amp;epguid=6395d239-7dd9-47d4-a22f-81a783873e12&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Bloor Hot Docs Cinema<\/a>) is appropriate, given one of their targets is the Canadian government&#8217;s terrible environmental record, and its regressive stance on enacting targets and measures to slow down the effects of climate change.\u00a0Given we have an election date in October, the doc&#8217;s another reminder in this country of what lies in store should the same party and its disinterested leader return for another term.<\/p>\n<p>The Yes Men&#8217;s brilliance lies in their ability to use Candid Camera styled pranks with the gusto of Michael Moore to insert themselves into genuine or staged media events and get national \/ international coverage, proving how well a message &#8211; climate change is real &#8211; can resonate when packaged in something that&#8217;s hypnotically absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of The Yes Men Are Revolting (2015), currently playing at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,3781,3780],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/YesMenRevolting_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-34I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11830,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/11830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}