All hijinks... ever
These are projects carried out over the years by Yes Men and their activist partners. For the full, gory stories behind them, take a peek behind the curtain.
Doctors for Opening America
Active Dates:
-
Reveal Dates:
Belfast Gets Brilliant
Active Dates:
-
Reveal Dates:
Peace Pipeline
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Nats Never Die
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Weapons to Windmills
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Yenning for a Coal-Free Future
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
BlackRock Does the Right Thing
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Trump Is Over - If You Want It
Active Dates:
-
Reveal Dates:
VW Commits to Ending Fossil Fuel Addiction
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Somos El Muro (We Are the Wall)
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
RefuGreenErgy
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
DNC Takeback
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Trump Election Reporting Devices
Active Dates:
-
Reveal Dates:
Anger Marketing at Roskilde
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
NRA Shares the Safety
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
UN Ends the War on Drugs
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Pfizer Drops Drug Prices
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
A Total Terrorism Solution For Europe
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Ft. Detrick Ghosts
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Snowden Pardoned
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Skip Showers for Beef
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Shell's Last Iceberg Snow Cones
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Hoax Dog Video Highlights Government's Treatment Of Firefighters
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Calling All Climate Activists
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Reed Divests
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Operation Second Thanks
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Black Pete is beloved, totally racist
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
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.
It's time once again for people to decide how the world ought to be, and to stop leaving decisions in the hands of the children with the most toys. Starting today, the Democratic Party is going to serve the people once again by fighting for what people need and want, and that therefore wins elections.
Associated Hijinks: DNC Takeback
Our entire panoply of defensive and security solutions to terrorism has collapsed, worthless! There is simply no imaginable answer to the terrorist threat within the paradigms of defense and security.
Associated Hijinks: A Total Terrorism Solution For Europe
This was a victory, but we're sad, we're suffering from lawsuit withdrawal. This was the first and only time in 17 years of Yes Mennery that anyone has been muttonheaded enough to sue us.
Associated Hijinks: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Goes Green
Runaway climate change would mean mass migrations, famines, and death on a scale never witnessed before. Needless to say, that would be bad for business.
Associated Hijinks: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Goes Green
The British used mummies as fuel, a crime still keenly felt by Egyptologists. But the Vivoleum feedstock is UNprecious, and responds to the needs of a shrinking market with greater supply: the dance of capital appears in full flower.
Associated Hijinks: Exxon's climate-victim candles
So far what we've got: Good for business, bad for people. We now need a fourth phase: good for business—good for people. And the path to this, as any economist worth his salt will tell you, can be summed up in one word: stewardship.
Associated Hijinks: The WTO's "stewardry" solution for Africa
I am pleased to announce that Exxon and Shell have agreed to finance wetlands rebuilding from part of their 60 billion dollars in profits this year. As Exxon writes: "We are earmarking 8.6 billion dollars from revenues our company has made in this region for wetland restoration, so as to assure that ExxonMobil never again has a hand in destroying a large American city."
Associated Hijinks: New Orleans rebuilds with a heart
![[ppt features and animation]](/sites/default/files/styles/320x215/public/2020-11/hallib-whatnoahknew-Slide44.jpg?itok=d9fTVhkF)
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
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
Videos
These are a few standalone short pieces we or our partners have made. For videos that reveal actions, are used within actions, or come out of actions, see our hijinks videos page.
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
Active Dates:
Reveal Dates:
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. 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.
