CHS will feature coverage this week of the 10-year anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle with a focus on Capitol Hill’s role in the events. As part of the remembrance, we are sponsoring a new kind of civil disobedience. There’s still a place for facing down jack-booted thugs and noxious gas — but we also admire people who get their point across in more subversive ways.

In that spirit, CHS is proud to co-present The Yes Men Fix the World at Northwest Film Forum. The film documents the work of two pranksters who put technology and empty-headed bureaucracy to work to infiltrate the modern media loop and hijack corporate and governmental posturing in the name of social activism. It’s like Borat with purpose beyond watching a skinny man wrestle a fat man naked. Seeing one of the Yes Men portraying a government official addressing the community in storm-ravaged New Orleans and making promises that are entirely doable but also entirely outside the realities of government is both funny and heart-breaking. But it’s also inspiring when you see the residents catch on to the message, get the ‘joke,’ and join in on bashing the mind-blown politicians and media who have been punk’d into playing their parts in the stunt.

The Yes Men plays November 27 through December 3. Friday’s opening night showing is a benefit for WTO +10, with Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum and other guests in attendance at both of the evening’s shows. Bichlbaum will also attend screenings on November 28 and 29. And CHS will be in the house to say hello before most screenings.