Yes Men Storm Whole Foods In Manhattan

After last night's showing of the new Yes Men film, a crowd of moviegoers stormed over to the Whole Foods on Houston Street and staged their own protest against corporations and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.

Check out the photos below of the typical Yes Men-tinged mayhem:

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Comments

[SailorBill]

Time to sell my Whole Foods stock. It's been nothing but a tofurkey anyhoo.

[PS9]

I wish these guys would storm the Whole Foods in my neighborhood.

The Chelsea store (7th and 24th) is so crowded it takes a half hour to check out during rush hours.

[BonusBaby]

Oh how spontaneous. They all "rushed" over to WF, and by complete coincidence the media just happened to be waiting there.

[GetoffMylawn]

They bring their own media and cameras, it's called planning. Look it up, it works!

[Citizen54]

Yeah, Whole Foods...... so evil.

Why aren't these people protesting down on Wall Street, where the real criminals are?
Or marching in front of the Mayor's house?

[MarcusT]

They all work on Wall st-didn't you notice?

[ImissBush]

same reason ur not protestin there

[DonBlv]

All right, I'm not cool, what are those things supposed to be? Dislike WF CEO, a real prince of a tool.

[jasper48]

I'm not cool either, but I'll guess soy bean???

[CanIBeFrank]

Those are Survivaballs, dude. As in SURVIVABALLS ATTACK WHOLE FOODS!!!

From their website:

"Attention Whole Food shoppers. There is a spill in the public health aisle. I repeat, there is a spill in the public health aisle. Urgent clean-up requested."

Thus rang out an unscheduled announcement at a gleaming new Whole Foods store in lower Manhattan last night, quickly followed by a crowd of over 150 moviegoers, anger at corporate wrongdoing still pulsing through their veins, erupted in song ("Hey Mackey," ripped off from a similar Oakland event; video coming soon) while stirred-up Survivaballs roamed the aisles looking for any trace of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, an anti-union mega-millionaire who's now campaigning against health care reform. Many a startled Whole Food shopper joined us in song to call out the greedheads who are still running the asylum. (Read this amazing report of the full harmonic convergence, complete with elaborate Yes Men star charts, and this version from the Gothamist. And stay tuned for video, coming soon!)

~Submitted by Joseph Huff-Hannon on October 9, 2009 - 8:45pm