" Think Outside the Bottle "

Yes Men Strike Again, Launch New Coke Brand Bottled Water Called 'Deception' Tara Lohan, AlterNet November 18, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144049/yes_men_strike_again%2C_launch_new_coke_brand_bottled_water_called_%27deception%27_%5Bwith_video%5D/

The notorious and hilarious pranksters, The Yes Men have done it again. This time their target was Coca-Cola. The company bottles Dasani water, which is basically just tap water that you pay a whole lot more for. The only difference really is that then you have a plastic bottle, which 80 percent of people toss in the garbage instead of a recycling bin.

While Pepsi, which uses tap water for its Aquafina bottled water, has now caved to pressure and labeled their water as "public water source" -- Coke still refuses. So, the Yes Men teamed up with pressure group Corporate Accountability International and launched a faux Coke campaign for a new bottled water called Deception. My favorite part of the video is when they actually run into a real employee from Coke.

How the Yes Men inspired a climate activist to impersonate an oil speculator—and derail a multimillion-dollar federal land giveaway. —By Bryan Farrell

During the final days of the Bush administration, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) scheduled a controversial auction of oil and gas leases on federal lands, including areas bordering national parks and monuments in Utah. While environmental organizations launched a round of protests and lawsuits, Tim DeChristopher, a 27-year-old econ major at the University of Utah, decided he had to try to stop the sale by himself. Not knowing exactly how he'd do it, DeChristopher walked into the auction in Salt Lake City on December 19, 2008, and had a sneaky idea handed to him in the form of a bidder's paddle.

Simply by raising it again and again and pretending to bid on the leases, he proceeded to drive up their prices and outbid the real speculators on 13 parcels covering more than 22,000 acres and worth $1.7 million dollars.

And where do you reckon Steve Fielding from (Soprano) Family First is likely headed on his holidays; to zoo visit /gawk at the asylum seekers on floating hulk detention centres perhaps... ah the liberal Dutch. yours in the barricaded attic etc. Anne Frankly

http://squat.net/

For the last three years a ban on squatting has been in preparation in Dutch politics. A new act that is to ban squatting in the Netherlands has passed through parliament on October 15th. Squatting empty houses that have been empty for over a year is currently still legal in the Netherlands.

The new act, an initiative by the Christian Democrats, the Christian Union and the conservative opposition party VVD, is to make squatting a felony punishable by at least one year and up to three years of prison when refusing to evict. Despite strong critique from the High Court, the union of city councils and even the Amsterdam police force, the christian/rightwing majority in The Hague is pushing this law through. http://www.indymedia.org/en/2009/10/930398.shtml

http://BeyondTalk.net World Leaders Thank Arrestees, Avert Climate Disaster

In a front-page ad in today's International Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. "It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically shift our climate-change policies.... To those who were arrested, we thank you." There was only one catch: the paper was fake.

Looking exactly like the real thing, but dated December 19th, 2009, a million copies of the fake paper were distributed worldwide by thousands of volunteers in order to show what could be achieved at the Copenhagen climate conference that is scheduled for Dec. 7-18, 2009. (At the moment, the conference is aiming for much more modest cuts, dismissed by leading climate scientists as too little, too late to stave off runaway processes that will lead to millions or even billions of casualties.)

The Yes Men Fix the World The screwball true story of a couple of activists who infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks to expose corporate greed and its impact on society. Director: Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, and Kurt Engfehr Year of Production: 2009 Running time: 87m http://theyesmen.org/theyesmenfixtheworld

FILM REVIEW - Courthouse Rebel - A Review of (radical U.S. lawyer) William Kunstler - Disturbiing the Universe" http://www.indypendent.org/2009/06/04/courthouse-rebel/

A free paper for free kids http://indykids.net/main/2009/05/food-where-you-live/ color-outside-the-lines