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.
The WTO's "stewardry" solution for Africa
Accidentally invited to a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative "Hanniford Schmidt" (actually Andy Bichlbaum) showed a Powerpoint describing a WTO initiative for "full private stewardry of…
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New Orleans rebuilds with a heart
Posing as the "deputy assistant to the undersecretary" of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Yes Men appear alongside New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to announce a dramatic break from Ray…
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McDonald's turns revolutionary
What's the most ridiculous, impossible scenario you can imagine? Perhaps it would be McDonald's "business modeling division" splitting off and launching a campaign for major societal overhaul. When Paolo Pedercini's McDonald's simulation game was…
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Halliburton's corporate solution to climate change
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, we got ourselves invited to an insurance industry conference on "Catastrophic Loss." The insurance industry was one of the few industry sectors taking climate change seriously—and boy did we…
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Infiltrating an Indian factory... almost
While in Bhopal to meet the survivors of the 1984 catastrophe, we learn from one of the organizers, Sathyu Sarangi, about a more recent Dow-tastrophe.
Sathyu informs us that Dow's termite-killer Dursban—aka chlorpyrifos, a chemical invented by the…
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Politely Requesting Remedy
"Jude Finisterra" (Andy Bichlbaum) and Mike Bonanno addressed the Dow Board at Dow's May 12, 2005 Annual General Meeting. Here's the story.
Dow wasn't taking any chances at this year's Annual General Meeting (AGM). For the first time in Dow's…
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Dow's Golden Skeleton
If market forces were all that set limits on corporations, what behaviors would constitute "acceptable risk"?
On April 28, 2005, at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited because of their fake Dow website, "Dow…
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Dow does the right thing
The Yes Men's biggest coup was when Andy appeared on BBC World Service in front of 350 million viewers—who thought he was a representative of the Dow Chemical Corporation! Dow had purchased Union Carbide two years earlier, and was thus officially…
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Yes Bush Can
Now there's Trump; back then there was Bush. This was our strangest and most expensive project ever. It was also a failure. You can read the partial story (the full one would take a whole book), or just scroll through the nutty videos and photos in…
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Let's Go Republican!
For the 2004 Republican National Convention, we created ''Let's Go Republican'' brochures, inspired by the Let's Go series of travel books and the FBI's ways of infiltrating left-wing groups, with tips on how radicals could dress to look like…
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Smash the State!
We attend a free Heritage Foundation luncheon intending to make a stir. It doesn't quite go as planned; the subtlety goes right over everyone's head.
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The Web Police vs the Yes Men
In order to dispel any misconceptions that we Yes Men might actually know what we're doing, we decided in May 2020 to at long last include this project from 2004. The video of this talk was impounded by the Secret Service—seriously, you can read…
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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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