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.
Dow does the wrong thing
On Dec. 3, 2002, the eighteenth anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, a press release was sent out from Dow-Chemical.com, telling Dow's story more honestly than Dow ever does. The release explained a little too honestly why Dow was refusing to take…
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The end of the World Trade Organization
Having mocked the World Trade Organization with a series of five actions beginning in 1999, the Yes Men finally just shut it down. The reaction is swift… and highly positive. Read the full story here.
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Let Them Eat Hamburger
The only one of our early impersonations where the audience didn't accept our shit... literally. Was it a coincidence they were students rather than accomplished corporate types? Surely not.
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The "WTO" on CNBC
On July 6, 2001, an email arrives at GATT.org from a television producer with CNBC Marketwrap Europe. The producer wants a representative of the WTO to debate an “anti-globalization” activist (possibly Naomi Klein) live in front of millions of TV…
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The WTO's Golden Phallus
Shortly after the New York Times publishes a full page about our trickery in Salzburg, the organizers of a textiles conference in Tampere, Finland make the same exact error, mistaking our fake WTO website for the real one. They invite the "WTO" to…
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George W. Bush's limits to freedom
In 1999, the two future Yes Men receive an email from a fellow who's had the foresight to register the domain GWBush.com and wants help making a spectacle of it. Rather than make a whole new website, Andy and Mike simply modify that one to explain…
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The WTO proposes the end of democracy
The first actual Yes Men project had its genesis in November 1999 when Andy, inspired by the anti-globalization protest about to shut down the WTO, made a satire of the WTO’s website (full live version here)… and the real WTO strangely issued an…
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Impersonating the WTO - accidentally
Gatt.org was a "shell" of the RTMark.com website, that Andy, inspired by the looming Seattle protests, set up on a lark in order to attack the WTO's awful policies. But the WTO reacted to it... and because the press wrote about it, search engines…
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Captain Euro Fan Club
The Yes Men's first action — as the Yes Men — was a weird one: they dressed up as characters from a racist comic book promoting the euro currency and paid a visit to the comic-book designers' headquarters. Read more... if you dare. And for the real…
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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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