Yes Lab

Skip Showers for Beef

Reveal date: Jun 16 2015 Status: Complete Partners: Courage Campaign, FunnyorDie Tagged: California, drought, food, water

In drought-ravaged California, producing one pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water. Moby and some friends found a way meat-loving Californians can find a way to sustainably enjoy their locally-raised cattle products: stop showering.

Operation Second Thanks

Reveal date: Apr 30 2014 Status: Complete Partners: Idle No More, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Tito Ybarra, Yansa, Black Mesa Water Coalition, CODEPINK, Greenpeace, The 1491s Tagged: climate change, Department of Energy, fracking, Homeland Security, Keystone XL

Environmental and indigenous rights activists team up with the Yes Men to impersonate the U.S. Department of Energy, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of Defense, and announce the nation's new energy plan.

Black Pete is beloved, totally racist

Reveal date: Nov 21 2013 Tagged: racism, the Netherlands, Zvarte Piet

A Dutch man in in full costume appears on a Canadian talk show to explain the particular blackface elements of a December holiday deeply cherished in The Netherlands.

SaveCanada

Reveal date: Sep 16 2013 Status: Complete Tagged: Canada, Keystone XL, pipeline, Tar Sands, TransCanada, YL

In towns across Canada, troupes of mischievous activists disrupted the attempts of TransCanada (of Keystone XL fame) to ram through another Tar Sands pipeline, Energy East, by dressing as TransCanada reps, but with "SaveCanada" logos, and telling the real story.

Blog

Calling All Climate Activists December 15, 2014

TransCanada plays dirty with SaveCanada November 18, 2014

Update on Amsterdam's Op de Valreep June 23, 2014

Help Us Finish Our Movie! May 15, 2014

Contractors dance in support of renewables revolution May 1, 2014

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