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

DNC Takeback
One week after Democrats in Congress announced their new "populist" agenda—“A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future”—the Yes Men, posing as DNC representatives, took to the stage at the Politicon conference in Pasadena, CA (and live…
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Trump Election Reporting Devices
The morning after the November 2016 election, our plan was to announce, in the name of the defeated Trump, a new Trump voting machine that would make sure the 2020 election went better than this one. The idea was to shock triumphant Clinton voters…
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Anger Marketing at Roskilde
140,000 people came to see some of the biggest musical acts, speakers, and events at Roskilde Festival 2016, not far from Copenhagen, Denmark. But many were dismayed to find posted signs at entrances stating the festival would be collecting and…
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NRA Shares the Safety
Watch film here! At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, National Rifle Association spokesperson Hensley Cocker proudly unveiled Share the Safety, a “buy one, give one” program designed to get guns into the hands of…
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UN Ends the War on Drugs
During the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem—whose dates strangely centered on April 20, or 4/20—the LA Times quoted the UN's new plan to decriminalize marijuana, end the war on drugs, and puts its…
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Pfizer Drops Drug Prices
Outside their headquarters in New York City, a Pfizer spokesperson gave a shocking announcement on April 1, 2016. “Pfizer will be cutting the price of over 100 medicines.” Cheers rang out from the nearly 100 activists gathered in expectation of this…
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A Total Terrorism Solution For Europe
In the European Parliament in Brussels, a "defense and security consultant" presented the ENDURAsphere, an "industrial solution to terrorism" which—unlike all other military and security solutions—is guaranteed to actually work. Read the talk, press…
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Ft. Detrick Ghosts
Frederick, Maryland has one of the highest cancer rates in the country, thanks to the chemical and biological weapons produced and destroyed in and around Ft. Detrick. Thousands of people who've drunk Frederick's contaminated groundwater have died…
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Snowden Pardoned
When Edward Snowden made his first in-person public appearance on U.S. soil since receiving a Presidential pardon, a bi-partisan crowd went wild. Sadly it wasn't true. Read all about it or watch the video.
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Skip Showers for Beef
In drought-ravaged California, producing one pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water. We hit on a way that meat-loving Californians could enjoy their locally-raised cattle products: simply stop showering: a new grassroots moo-vement for…
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Shell's Last Iceberg Snow Cones
Royal Dutch Shell has spent billions on its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. Despite setbacks, in the spring and summer of 2015, they were ramping up operations to go drill in areas made newly accessible by climate change. To counter the…
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Dog burning fiasco
When the pensions of the London Fire Brigade are threatened by new reforms upping the age of retirement, Russell Brand brings together the Yes Men and local firefighters, one of whom is a childhood friend. Andy decides the ticket to massive…
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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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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.

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.