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Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"

Doctorow, Cory
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/14/yes-men-punk-tpp-and-us-trade.html

Publisher:  BoingBoing
Date Written:  14/05/2012
Year Published:  2012  
Resource Type:  Article

US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."

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