End of War in Iraq

2008

Printed publication publicly distributed, 2008

The Yes Men and Steve Lambert (USA)

with 30 writers, 50 advisors, around 1000 volunteer distributors, CODEPINK, May First/People Link, Evil Twin, Improv Everywhere and Not An Alternative.

One week after Barack Obama was elected The New York Times hit the streets with the surprising headline: 'IRAQ WAR ENDS'. Over 80,000 copies of this 'Special Edition' of The New York Times were placed directly in commuters' hands, free of charge, in several cities around the United States. The paper closely matched the design, look, and feel of The New York Times in every way but for a few small details. Inside were 14 pages of 'best case scenario' news that describing the world as it could be eight months in the future.

Since the Special Edition was a tangible newspaper it transported people to a parallel world. For a few moments, in the minds of the readers, their hopes and dreams became real news.

The Yes Men describe themselves as 'a group who use any means necessary to agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, and then smuggle out the stories of their undercover escapades to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of big business. The Yes Men have impersonated World Trade Organization, Dow Chemical Corporation, and Bush administration spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world.'

The Yes Men would like to acknowledge their creative and logistical collaborators:

STEVE LAMBERT
ANDY BICHLBAUM
DANIEL S DUNNAM
KELLI ANDERSON
GREGG OSOFSKY
MIKE BONANO
JEREMY PIKSER
JACQUELINE STEVENS
HEATHER ROGERS
LARRY BOGAD
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON
SCOTT BEIBIN
LIZ COLE
ELIOT KATZ
CRISTIAN FLEMING
STEVE KURTZ
JOE DELAPPE
TREVOR PAGLEN
STEPHEN DUNCOMBE
DALTON CONLEY
PACKARD JENNINGS
JAMIE McCLELLAND
TOM FOSTER
NINA FELSHIN
ISABEL MACDONALD
BILL MARTIN

BROOKE LEHMANN
BEKA ECONOMOPOULOS
JASON JONES
MEDEA BENJAMIN
JODIE EVANS
JEAN STEVENS
DANA BALICKI
LAURIE ARBEITER
RANDY OSTROW
ETIENNE NOREAU-HEBERT
CHARLIE TODD
ANDREW BOYD
GREG PODUNOVICH
GRACE SALEM
AMANDA McDONALD-CROWLEY
JEFF CROUSE
ZENA BARAKAT
FRANCES FOX PIVEN
RICHIE SUMMERS
PRANAV BEHARI
CYNTHIA YARDLEY
PATRICK CAREY
NICK FLYNN
LILI TAYLOR
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
FRANCO MATTES
EVA MATTES
LESLIE CAGAN
NOAM GONICK

Institutional Collaborators
EYEBEAM
THE ANTI-ADVERTISING AGENCY
CODEPINK
MAY FIRST/PEOPLE LINK
IMPROV EVERYWHERE
EVIL TWIN BOOKING
NOT AN ALTERNATIVE
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
CULTURES OF RESISTANCE
EXPEDI PRINTING

Transport Logisticians
KALIM ARMSTRONG
JAMES BACHHUBER
PAUL NOTZOLD
RICHARD LAMANNA
LISA NOLA
MARY JEYS
LIZ FILARDI
JAMES POWDERLY
RANDY OSTROW
HILARY GOLDSTEIN
JON COHRS
JASON EPPINK

Server Survival Team
JAMIE McCLELLAND
ETIENNE NOREAU-HEBERT
ALFREDO LOPEZ
JAMIE WILKINSON
GREGG OSOFSKY

Video News Release Team
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON
ARTUR KUMMER
LILKA HARA
LILI TAYLOR
NICK FLYNN
RANDY OSTROW
NINA FELSHIN
MADELINE NELSON
BILL MARTIN
WOLFGANG STAEHLE

Camera
ELIZABETH PRESS
MARK READ
ROCKETBOOM
ELIZABETH PRESS
SERGEI KRASIKAU
STEVE LAMBERT
RAUL BARCELONA
DANIEL DUNNAM
And many others

Photographers
CONWAY LIAO
JON COHRS
ELSPETH ROUNDTREE
And many others

Additional Editors
JOE BONACCI
ERIC BROWN

Sound
JOHN BUCHER