Hijinks/

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

Adidas humiliated over worker abuse in home country
At the hottest Berlin Fashion Week event yet, "adidas" made history by introducing their new Co-CEO: a Cambodian garment worker. Vay Ya Nak Phoan gave an impassioned speech about the deplorable conditions in their supply chain, and pledged that the…
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Climate chaos carnival alarms, amuses
Watch video here Vanguard, the biggest retirement fund company in the US and second-biggest asset manager in the world, is sinking our ship with $300 billion invested in fossil fuels. We decided to breach right in their backyard with a playful de-…
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Oil company helps community get ready for their next disaster
On the anniversary of their refinery's 2018 explosion, Husky Energy (supposedly) launched a campaign to calm community fears about its recurrence, as they set about (actually) building a new refinery with the same toxic chemicals.
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Starbucks "apologizes" for dietary racism - then actually does what we simulated
A fake Starbucks announced — and then clumsily denied — that they were eliminating their upcharge on plant-based milks because of dietary racism. Several media outlets reprinted both the announcement and the denial — and then many more had a good…
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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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TotalEnergies press conference ends in blood
In a Napoleonic ballroom full of journalists, trickster activists pretending to be from supermajor oil company TotalEnergies unveiled RéHabitat, a “habitat-equivalency” conservation program that would rescue animals from their impending East African…
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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
An "Indigenous pipeline company" began demonstratively destroying Duluth, beginning with "sacred remains relocations" at Duluth cemeteries (one clumsy team kept dropping a casket as horrified churchgoers looked on), construction surveys at Duluth's…
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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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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.

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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.

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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Fake press releases

These are fake press releases used in our actions.

Note: we always reveal our fakes in short order — and that's what distinguishes these from the bad kind of fakes. For why we did certain actions, and how well we think they succeeded, see our press pages.

Correspondence

These are a few of email exchanges, mostly with our "opponents."

There are a whole lot more where these came from, that we'll be adding as we unearth them.

Real press

Here's some press our projects have gotten, and what the goal was each time in getting it.

We've also guesstimated how successful some projects were in reaching their goals. These are totally just guesses; we have "metrics," sometimes, but those only go so far.