Culture : Affirmative Action ; Mike Davies Gets Positive with the Yes Men

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Once upon a time Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano were artist- activists with a healthy disrespect for authority (both had grandparents who died in the Holocaust) carrying out their separate gender correction political statement pranks.

Working as a video game programme, Bichlbaum once replaced large breasted bimbos with swim-suited snogging gay men while Bonnano, founder of the Barbie Liberation Organisation, switched the voice boxes of Talking Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls, then returned them to toy store shelves perplexing children and outraging parents with Barbies who roared 'Vengeance is mine!' and macho soldiers who wondered 'will we ever have enough clothes?'

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Culture : Affirmative Action ; Mike Davies Gets Positive with the Yes Men

A mutual friend brought them together and they pooled their interests and talents in the pursuit of what they term 'identity correction', impersonating people and organisations to highlight their policies through distorted but more honest representations. The Yes Men were born. During the 2000 Presidential...

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