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NRA Shares the Safety

Reveal date: Jun 23 2016 Status: Complete Tagged: Guns, NRA, racism

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 to get guns into the hands of unarmed Black men. Watch the action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvnyFPKX8-A

RefuGreenErgy

Reveal date: Oct 3 2017 Status: Complete Partners: WAAR Tagged: climate change, Green Energy, Migration, Refugees

Hundreds of spectators witnessed a bizarre sight Saturday, when a slick new tech startup called RefuGreenErgy held a three-hour launch event in central Brussels, complete with four "RefuGreens" happily pedaling battery-filling bikes. "Company representatives" circulated among tourists and others, describing how the company would convert the power of bicycling refugees into electrical energy—giving the refugees 24-hour periods of amnesty and 1.60 euros per day, and Belgians "green electricity" and a "guilt-free way to help others."

DNC Takeback

Reveal date: Aug 1 2017 Status: Active Partners: People for Bernie Tagged: Democratic Politics, DNC, Populism

One week after Democrats in Congress announced their new "populist" agenda, the Yes Men posed as DNC representatives and called their bluff by promoting progressive policies that are popular across the political spectrum, and have already been winning on the local level even in Trump-voting districts.

UN Ends the War on Drugs

Reveal date: Apr 20 2016 Status: Complete Partners: Potanist Tagged: decriminalization, drug policy, marijuana, UN

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 drugs and make them a health care rather than criminal justice issue.

Blog

It's crazy. It'll work. It's a surprise. August 28, 2018

New Yes Men film calls B.S. on murderous NRA February 26, 2018

Bicycle hoax highlights soulless cycle October 4, 2017

Oct. 15 in NYC: WTF do we do now? September 22, 2017

#DNCTakeBack reveal release July 31, 2017

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The through-line of Yes Men actions is that they highlight the idiocy of the neoliberal delusion. Most recently, we have focused on the Democrats' responsibility for our current apocalyptic situation.