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APBRUSSELS (AP) — Greenpeace published a spoof edition of the International Herald Tribune on Thursday to highlight environmental issues and draw attention to the Copenhagen climate change conference in December.
The Paris-based International Herald Tribune, global edition of the New York Times, complained and, as the spoof also appeared on the Internet, said it had asked the environmental group immediately to remove any fake IHT Web pages.
A statement from the newspaper rejected Greenpeace's argument that it used the brand to praise the IHT for its climate change reporting.
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Greenpeace printed 50,000 copies of the spoof, of which 35,000 were distributed in Brussels where European Union leaders were meeting. About 15,000 copies were distributed in 16 European countries plus Canada, China, India, Mexico, the United States and Brazil, Greenpeace said.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j98pntLMkshOwjEudCBFaURhQg3wD98T6DEO3
The parody is online at
http://iht.greenpeace.orgThe Yes Men were involved in this:
Yes Men hit the streets today with a fake International Herald TribuneYou remember the fake New York Times that was distributed last November announcing the end of the Iraq war? Well, there is a fake International Herald Tribune being circulated today, in an action by Greenpeace, which is being released in advance of the Copenhagen summit on December 19 2009. In it, EU leaders 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.”
The Yes Men have supported a website which is urging non-violent civil disobedience in confronting climate change in the face of reluctant bureaucrats and politicians.
From a press release sent out today:
“Non-violent civil disobedience has been at the forefront of almost every successful campaign for change,” said Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men, who helped write and edit the newspaper and are furnishing the technology for BeyondTalk.net. “Especially in America, and especially today, we need to push our leaders hard to stand up to industry lobbyists and make the sorts of changes we need.”
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