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Anti-Corporate Media Hijackers

News   November 28, 2009 at 12:46 pm Chris Kissel

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1. The tenth anniversary of the World Trade Organization protests is technically on Monday, but there are a couple of events this weekend commemorating the riots and their after-effects.

For starters, the Northwest Film Forum is showing the Yes Men Fix the World, the second film about a group of anti-corporate media hijackers who pretend to be spokespeople for large corporations (one time, one of them went on the BBC news pretending to be a spokesperson for the chemical company that caused the Bhopal disaster). Whether or not you agree with their in-your-face anti-corporate stance, it’s uncomfortable to watch, and weirdly entertaining. Kinda like Borat without the jokes.

Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, at 7 pm and 9 pm, at the Northwest Film Forum. Tickets are $9.

Seattle University is hosting a series of workshops and panels this weekend that will address different aspects of globalization, from the economic to the ecological.

11:30 to 6 today, 10 to 3:30 tomorrow, at Seattle University’s Pigott Hall.

2. The Vera Project is hosting an all-ages dance party tonight, featuring Sabzi, the wise-cracking, dusty R&B-spinning DJ for Blue Scholars, and Soul, whose 12 consecutive years of hosting Reggae night at War Room are in danger of dying with the club.

There’s a $5 cover, but there’s always the possibility you’ll win the $50 prize for best dancer.

Vera Project, at 9 pm.

3. It’s not too late to try to get a ticket to the Morrissey concert at the Paramount Sunday night.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEmsjyUrslk[/youtube]

Tomorrow, 7:30, at the Paramount Theater. Tickets are $52.

4. Mayor-elect Mike McGinn kicks off his triptych of town halls on Monday night. McGinn says he wants to hear the biggest concerns from all over the city before he’s sworn in.

Monday’s meeting is way up North at the Northgate Community Center, on 5th Ave NE and NE 105th. On Tuesday, McGinn will be at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in the CD, and on Wednesday he’ll be at Rainier Beach High School

Monday night at Northgate Community Center, at 7 pm.


  • protestor

    Thank God we stopped world trade! I’d go to the antiglobalization workshops, that stuff is so important. But since I slept in yesterday, I’m off to Macy’s for the $29 microwave, then Lowe’s for the $9 crockpot, then Best Buy for the $499 tv screen, then it’s off to Kia to look at their cars did you know some of them are only $99 a month if you qualify?
    that’s less than the plan for my droid phone and acer netbook!

    I also need a new toner cartridge from Office Max. Maybe I’ll just get anotehr printer when I am there, the color printers are like less than $129 now. It’s nice to have the laser for ordinary black and white, then color when you want it, don’t you agree?

  • protestor

    Thank God we stopped world trade! I’d go to the antiglobalization workshops, that stuff is so important. But since I slept in yesterday, I’m off to Macy’s for the $29 microwave, then Lowe’s for the $9 crockpot, then Best Buy for the $499 tv screen, then it’s off to Kia to look at their cars did you know some of them are only $99 a month if you qualify?
    that’s less than the plan for my droid phone and acer netbook!

    I also need a new toner cartridge from Office Max. Maybe I’ll just get anotehr printer when I am there, the color printers are like less than $129 now. It’s nice to have the laser for ordinary black and white, then color when you want it, don’t you agree?

  • Carole

    1. Please stop using the word triptych.
    2. YPIN is hosting a movie and panel discussion about “The WTO in Seattle 10 years later: An in-depth analysis of democracy and globalization then and now” Thursday night at MOHAI.

  • Carole

    1. Please stop using the word triptych.
    2. YPIN is hosting a movie and panel discussion about “The WTO in Seattle 10 years later: An in-depth analysis of democracy and globalization then and now” Thursday night at MOHAI.