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Last week, the Yes-Men created a replica of Dow Chemical's
website at the domain www.dow-chemical.com - (now available at http://www.dowethics.com/
"Dow is responsible for the birth of the modern environmental
movement," begins the The Yes-Men's sophisticated detournment of the
official site. The group also published press releases entitled
"Responsible Care: Aiming For Zero Responsibility" and a canned
quote from 'a Dow Spokesperson'.
Dow acquired Union Carbide and inherited the responsibility for
the horrific Bhopal disaster, which has so far killed 20,000 Indians
after a leak of the unstable chemical methyl isocyanate..more from
the register
On Dec. 3, the eighteenth anniversary of the Union Carbide (i.e.
Dow) disaster at Bhopal, a press
release was sent out by Dow-Chemical.com, telling Dow's story
more honestly than Dow ever does.
Then on Dec. 4, after business hours and when nobody was on hand
to deal with it, Verio shut down the entire Thing.net network,
which hosts innumerable activist, artist, and other websites and
bulletin boards (as well as Dow-Chemical.com). Verio did this in
response to the DMCA notice that they had received the day before.
But the site has now reappeared in nine separate places listed on
the theyesmen.org and you can download the site for
your web space at dow-chemical.va.com.au/site.zip
Then to make things worse for DOW, Greenpeace have come out with
an even more cutting parody of DOW at http://www.mad-dow-disease.com/
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