The Yes Men

Katherine Goldstein

The Yes Men Explain How To Pull Off An International Prank (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green


Last week while I was in Copenhagen, I got a press release in an email stating that Canada was totally reversing its climate change position, announci...

Jason Linkins

Confirmed: Yes Men Behind Prank Of Canada At COP15

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green


UPDATE (5:55 P.M. EST): Huffington Post Green Editor Katherine Goldstein, who is in Copenhagen at the COP15 Climate Change Summit, spoke to Andy Bichl...

The Yes Men Prank Coke In Copenhagen

Posted 12.11.2009 | Green


From Grist.org The Yes Men, merry climate pranksters, have been oddly quiet of late. Strange, since we are now deep into week one of the Copenhagen c...

The Yes Men Take On Coca Cola And Dasani Water (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green


The Enviro-Pranksters The Yes Men were at it again with a recent trip to Boston, where, posing as Coca Cola representatives, they unveiled a new name ...

ReThink Review: The Yes Men Fix the World -- Speaking Truth by Faking Power

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment


Jonathan Kim

Armed only with cheap suits, fake websites, a few props and nuts the size of Survivaballs, the Yes Men have become infamous for infiltrating corporate events pretending to be spokesmen for government agencies or some of the world's most powerful companies.

Chamber of Commerce M.I.A.! Chevron Takes the Heat!

The Yes Men | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


The Yes Men

Chevron is a target of citizen protests in California, across the United States and around the world because of Chevron's role in climate destruction, public health abuse, and wars for oil.

The Yes Men Rule

John Feffer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment


John Feffer

It is, like all fine gourmet water, "bottled at source." Even the French name of the water suggests elegance: B'eau Pal. But wait: B'eau Pal? That sounds rather familiar.

Trick or Treat for Climate Change

Amy Goodman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Amy Goodman

Halloween is coming, and children will be dressing up and chanting "trick or treat," their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same.

Mohawk Paper Joins Chamber of Commerce Exodus

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


Brendan DeMelle

The Chamber has been losing members -- real members out of its actual 300,000 or less total -- at a rate of several each week lately.

Arlen Specter Chased By The Yes Men In "SurvivaBalls"

The Huffington Post | Eric Sorensen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


The streets surrounding Capitol Hill were home to a strange sight Tuesday morning as a group of people, costumed in round canvas outfits, waddled afte...

Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice

Zefrey Throwell | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York


Zefrey Throwell

With the New York Public Library, the arts organization Creative Time has put together a zinger of a conference, with the Yes Men, Thomas Hirschorn, Suzanne Lacy, Dara Greenwald and more.

Yes Men Storm Whole Foods In Manhattan

Posted 10.09.2009 | New York


After last night's showing of the new Yes Men film, a crowd of moviegoers stormed over to the Whole Foods on Houston Street and staged their own prote...

Democracy WOW! With The Yes Men

Sara Benincasa | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy


Sara Benincasa

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The Yes Men Fix the World's a Riot. No, Really.

The Yes Men | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment


The Yes Men

Our new film's story is simple: two guys, armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, infiltrate the world of big business, where we make a lot of bad, powerful people really uncomfortable.

First ACORN. Citibank, AIG, Goldman Sachs Next?

The Yes Men | Posted 11.26.2009 | Media


The Yes Men

We posed as Dow Chemical representatives at a big banking conference where we said that any number of human deaths is acceptable as long as a project is profitable. The bankers applauded.

Jason Linkins

The Yes Men: Interview With Andy Bichlbaum (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York


With the help of a cadre of dedicated volunteers, Bichlbaum and his partner in crime, Mike Bonnano -- who form the satirists known as The Yes Men -- produced and distributed a spoofed copy of the New York Post.

Infotainment Rules: Should Letterman, DeLay and Ferrell Dominate Discourse?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Could Letterman be reaching for some of Jon Stewart's magic? And do stunt documentaries really change anything? Like the Ferrell video, are they only for the converted?

Fake NY Post Activists Detained By Police

Daily Finance | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media


The New York Post does not have a sense of humor about itself, it would seem. Early this morning, some 2,000 activists affiliated with a group called...

Jason Linkins

Fake New York Post: The Yes Men's Latest Takes On The Environment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media


Just about ten months after the successful distribution of a lovingly crafted, satirical facsimile of the New York Times, the activist-pranksters know...

SurvivaBall: New Yes Men Prank Focuses On Global Warming (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green


The Yes Men are back and this time they're going green. Nine months ago the group of socially-minded pranksters pulled off an elaborate hoax, distribu...

The Yes Men Fix The World One Prank at a Time

Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment


Liza Weisberg

In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.

Third Screen: How Now Dow... Chemical?

Vickie Karp | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment


Vickie Karp

Corporations don't always do what's right. Maybe they can't. Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they want to but the shareholders wouldn't like it. Cue: The Yes Men.

Why the Yes Men Said "No"

The Yes Men | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment


The Yes Men

We know our decision won't get us too many friends in Israel, even among progressives. But we have to do what seems right to us, and hope the message gets through.

The Planet Is Saved ... Pass It on

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green


Sarah van Gelder

World leaders negotiate an historic climate agreement. ... Temperature rise will be kept below 2 degrees, averting runaway global heating and chaotic ...

Jason Linkins

New York Times Prankers On How They Pulled Off Hoax

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics


A week ago, the world woke up to a stunningly well-crafted, and good-hearted, prank, as across the nation, fake copies of the New York Times were diss...