All hijinks... ever
These are projects carried out over the years by the Yes Men and their student and organizational partners.
For a timeline of when and why they occurred, see our timeline (coming soon). For why we did certain actions, and how well we think they succeeded, see our press pages. For the full, gory stories behind actions, take a peek behind the curtain.
Flight couture for the climate?
Our partners at GCOP "revealed" that we had created a "fake" company for outfitting private jets. The COP26 believed them — and kicked the (real) company out of their flagship "net zero" program. Yasava is real, but the "net zero" racket is fake.
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Vanguardians of the Galaxy fight supervillain investors
A superhero-costumed street team presented a “green finance” program on behalf of investment behemoth Vanguard, admitting that their great power brings great environmental responsibility, and promising they would shift course to ensure their…
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TotalEnergies press conference ends in blood
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Trickster activists pretending to be from supermajor oil company TotalEnergies unveiled RéHabitat, a “habitat-equivalency” conservation program that would rescue animals from their East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) by relocating…
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Newsmax falls twice for fake "Wolfowitz"
Thanks to some sleight of hand, on Aug. 21 we get Newsmax to tell its viewers that without some stupid 20-year war, even a failed one, Americans have nothing to be proud of, since we lag so far behind on health care, infrastructure, education, elder…
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Bank of England goes green
Fake news!!! But what else can you do when the central bank of a rather important country seems to have no clue whatsoever how to stop climate catastrophe?
Bankers and climate activists alike were surprised when the UK’s central Bank of England…
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Doctors for Opening America
Inspired by our 2012 project against Shell, we tried making a website to warn Donald Trump's human-sacrifice victims that they were up next. The website crowd-sourced pro-death ads from "doctors", and we assumed people would get the dark joke and…
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Belfast Gets Brilliant
Belfast City Council, under pressure from citizens, cancelled a massive investor-focused development project in order to focus on social housing instead. They did so with an announcement at a big manufacturing conference, on bus stops and billboards…
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Peace Pipeline
The "Indigenous Pipeline Council" announced that they would be re-routing the Line 3 pipeline through wealthy, white sacred sites, rather than the planned route through indigenous lands. The IPC began demonstratively destroying Duluth, MN, beginning…
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Nats Never Die
On 30 September 2019, a horde of apartheid-era zombies rose from the grave to attend a "#NatsNeverDie rally" at the Cape Town Civic Centre. They were there to "support" the Cape Town city government's policies—increasingly similar to those of the…
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Weapons to Windmills
Early Monday morning, journalists gathered for a press conference at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof were treated to a surprising announcement: the Swiss arms manufacturer RUAG would no longer make and sell arms abroad. Given the state of the world, said “…
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Yenning for a Coal-Free Future
One day after a hoax impersonation shamed Mizuho and other banks for financing new coal power plants against their own industry standards, the real Mizuho announced that they plan to limit their coal-financing policies in the future. Sadly, that…
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BlackRock Does the Right Thing
In the early morning of January 16, 2019, a few hours before announcing their fourth-quarter 2018 earnings, Laurence Fink, CEO of the biggest asset management company, received an email copy of his annual letter to investors. There was just one…
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Fake websites
Because a so-called fake website started the Yes Men, we've made dozens more over the years.
These websites represent our opponents more transparently than they ever present themselves — making these true websites, not fake! Also, whereas sinister people use trickery to get outcomes, we reveal hoaxes to mobilize.
Talks
These are the presentations we've made at corporate conferences over the years.
For maximum effect, wear ill-fitting shoes and slouch in a folding chair as you click through them.
Talk as delivered at the International Serious Games Event, Birmingham, June 5, 2006 by "Andrew Shimery-Wolf," Director, McDonald's Interactive Division.
Associated Hijinks: McDonald's turns revolutionary
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The Great Deluge was surely seen as a terrible catastrophe by Noah's contemporaries. Yet Noah seized the day, and at the end of that day, Noah found himself with a monopoly of the animals.
Associated Hijinks: Halliburton's corporate solution to climate change
A more complex case is IBM’s sale of technology to WWII Germany for use in identifying Jews. But no one can deny they were profitable, and although this issue remains a skeleton in the closet, in retrospect it is quite clearly golden.
Associated Hijinks: Dow's Golden Skeleton
Like literal children, citizens don't always want to be kept safe from "real life" things. Sometimes they struggle and scream against being kept safe, sometimes with ear-piercing shrieks that can make your skin crawl.
Associated Hijinks: The Web Police vs the Yes Men
[This is the text delivered to the group of accountants in Sydney on May 21.]
Friends:
Associated Hijinks: The end of the World Trade Organization
With the use of this technology, a single hamburger, for example, can be eaten more than ten times, providing a cumulative total of three times the nutritional value of the original “fresh” hamburger.
Associated Hijinks: Let Them Eat Hamburger
By forcing the issue, the North not only committed a terrible injustice against the freedom of the South, but also deprived slavery of its natural development into remote labor.
Associated Hijinks: The WTO's Golden Phallus
Systemic Trade Barriers are the most insidious form of free-trade barrier. These are deep barriers, at the level of systems and structures, at the very core of the governments of most countries today....
Associated Hijinks: The WTO proposes the end of democracy
This presentation was given by "Yukiko Denki" and "Kendra Bamp" on January 17, 2024, at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Associated Hijinks: AI meltdown exposes Toyota greenwashing
Videos
These are videos that reveal actions, are used within actions, or come out of actions.
For standalone shorts, see our movies page.
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Behind the curtain
These are the secret stories of actions that Yes Men have been a part of—in all their complexity, and not as a movie or press release represented them.
For why we did certain actions, and how well we think they succeeded, see our press pages. And be sure to check out the lessons we learned from these and other adventures; some might even be useful!
Photos
These are photos from various actions, usually in high-res.
Some of these aren't really photos but images of printed things used in our actions — brochures, mostly.
