Identity Correction

 

Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, and otherwise giving journalists excuses to cover important issues. These days, we're focusing all our energy on the Yes Lab, which helps activists use creative techniques to promote change.

Correcting identities…

Exxon, Dow slam new Yes Men film; opens in U.K. this week

August 5, 2009
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DOW, EXXONMOBIL SLAM NEW YES MEN FILM FOR "INACCURACIES", "MISREPRESENTATION"; CONCEDE PIC "ENTERTAINING"
U.K. theatrical premiere of "The Yes Men Fix the World" August 7, opens in U.S. theaters in October

Become a tabloid writer!

Have you ever wanted to be a tabloid writer? Now you can live the dream!

Adopt the persona of a right-wing tabloid writer who has realized that climate change actually matters and wants us all to do something about it. The writer should still sound like a tabloid writer though, with all the same political inclinations and such - they've just realized global warming matters, or may conceivably matter, or, even if doesn't, we're still better off getting off fossil fuels.

Poster contest results!

Poster contest results! Get ready to vote (coming soon).




Dow runs scared from water

July 13, 2009
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"B'EAU-PAL" WATER SCARES DOW EXECS INTO HIDING
Plans to contribute to climate action in lead-up to Copenhagen begin to take shape

London - A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water - this time not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today.

Twenty Bhopal activists, including Sathyu Sarangi of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, showed up at Dow headquarters near London to find that the entire building had been vacated.

BeyondTalk.net!

Visit BeyondTalk.net - a tool to help you stop complaining about climate change and do something.

Sewing workshop, the Yes Men say No, and new Taiwanese trailer

Sewing workshop! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=97648172879

The Yes Men say no on HuffPo. Please comment! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-yes-men/why-the-yes-men-said-no_b_2244...

New Taiwanese trailer - by the guy who does Wong Kar-Wai's trailers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxUY6buMJg

Poster contest! Deadline July 15

After spending many years “borrowing” the look of corporations we didn't like, we’ve never gotten around to figuring out a look for ourselves.

It's fun to ask stupid questions

Last week we attended an eviction resistance action called by ACORN as part of their new national Home Defender campaign. We made this video.

What is Sundance?

We arrived in Park City Utah for the most fancy film festival in America. Then we invented a game. It's called "Dream Catcher Catching." Here is how to play. Walk around town and look in the windows. If you spot a dream catcher, that’s a point for you. If you are good, you should reach double figures in one block.

Yes Men Crash BMW Gala, Demand they Stop Making Cars

Leonardo Di Caprio, Bob Geldof and and Mikhail Gorbachev were among the dignitaries momentarily blocked by protesters as they tried to enter BMW's high-octane "Cinema for Peace" charity gala in Berlin last night.

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