The Yes Men

Fake Bank Of America Website Asks How You'd Run BofA

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Yourbofa, Rainforest Action Network, Brian Moynihan, Video, Bank of America Website, Countrywide Financial, Fake Bofa Website, Occupy Wall Street, New Bottom Line, Bank of America, Bofa, The Yes Men, Occupy Movement, Business News

"Banking is too complicated for ordinary people to understand," reads the press release from YourBofA.com. "That's not to say people are stupid." T...

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Sara Benincasa: She's Delightful, She's Delicious, She's Agorafabulous!

Holly Cara Price | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Sex and Other Human Activities, Panic Attacks, AGORAFABULOUS! Dispatches From My Bedroom, Sara Benincasa, Valentines Day, Panic Disorder, The Yes Men, Books News

In case you are not familiar with Sara Benincasa, she is an award-winning comedian, writer, blogger, and all around hilarious person. I spoke with her last week about her first book, Agorafabulous!

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Artists, Protesters Take To Times Square For Occupy Broadway

HuffingtonPost.com | Johanna Barr | Posted 12.04.2011

NEW YORK -- A diverse group of performance artists and protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement headed to the Theater District this ...

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The Yes Men's Anti-Corporate Classroom Teaches Students To Be Pranksters

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Dow Chemical Hoax, Video, Hoaxes, Yes Lab, Kickstarter, Fake Exxon Executives, Corporate Pranks, General Electric Tax Bill, The Yes Men, Bhopal Disaster, Weird News News

Brother, can you spare $10,000? Well, what if the money is going to be used to help teach activists how to play media pranks on organizations like McD...

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Truth in an Age of Guerrilla Political Activism

Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Moveon, Kevin Drum, MoveOn.Org, James O'keefe, Yes Men, Fox News, Gop, Guerrilla Activism, Political Pranks, Democratic Party, The Yes Men, Guerilla Polical Activism, Politics News

Guerrilla-style political activism is regularly carried out on both sides of the ideological spectrum. But that doesn't answer the question of whether either side will ultimately benefit from these shenanigans.

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In King Coal's Kingdom, Truth Is Stranger Than Satire

Carl Pope | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Coal Cares, Coal, The Yes Men, Peabody Energy, Green News

This week Peabody Energy agreed to a typical class action suit remedy: provide a free inhaler to any child afflicted with asthma who lives close to a coal-fired power plant. There's only one problem: the press release was a prank by culture-jamming satirists.

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Yes Men Affiliates Prank Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Agitprop, Peabody Energy Prank, Coal Industry, Green News, Environmentalism, Yes Men, Peabody Energy, Coal, Pranks, The Yes Men, Video, Green News

It appears that a merry gang of agitprop pranksters associated with the Yes Men have pulled a fast one on Peabody Energy, the self-described "world's ...

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Media Taken In By Fake General Electric Press Release

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, General Electric, General Electric Fake Press Release, General Electric Prank, Jeffrey Immelt, The Yes Men, Media News

It would appear that once again, a Yes Men-style prank has caught us all napping. Earlier today, news broke that General Electric had agreed, amid public outcry, to "donate" the entirety of their $3.2 billion tax refund to the federal government.

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The Yes Men Strike Again: Chevron Gets Punked

nytimes.com | STUART ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Chevron We Agree, Chevron, Chevron Prank, The Yes Men, Green News

Chevron is scrambling to deal with an elaborate lampoon of a major advertising campaign that the company introduced on Monday. An environmental org...

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Does Chevron Think We're All Stupid?

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Punk, The Yes Men, Commercial, Chevron, Advertising, Parody, Spoof, Stupid, Amazon Watch, Ad, We Agree, Funny or Die, Greenwash, Green News

Have you seen the way big oil has tried to rebrand itself since the BP oil disaster started six months ago? Each company wants us to believe it is the...

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Chevron's Casting Call

Lauren Selman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecuador, Rainforest Action Network, The Yes Men, Commercial, Chevron, Toxic, Oil Spill, Advertising, Spoof, Parody, Amazon Watch, Casting, Legacy, Campaign, Pollution, We Agree, Green News

Any working actor will tell you that the job begins in the audition. It's true. Enter the room like you have the job, and you're much more likely to n...

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2010 Workers' Voice Awards: Worker Worthy Pop Culture Standouts

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ceos, Immigration, Service Economy, Donna Summer, Matt Damon, The Chemical Brothers, Movies, Mtv, Bailout, Unions, Workplace, Up in the Air, Austin, The Yes Men, JJ Abrams, John Steinbeck, Sundance Film Festival, Protest, Jobs, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, Economic Crisis, Folk Art, Film, Labor Unions, Elvis Presley, Tyler Perry, Seth MacFarlane, Adventureland, Awards Season, Entertainment, Work, Jason Reitman, Diego Rivera, Working Women, March on Washington, Books, Janitor, Elaine Elinson, Norman Lear, Economy, Reality Television, Chile, Getty Center, Reality TV, Motorcycles, Bbc, Workers, Martin Starr, Music, Undercover Boss, Arts, Musicians, Television, Nurses, Labor Day, Michael Moore, Edie Falco, Elizabeth Dee, Entertainment News, MTV Video Music Awards, Humble-Pie, Arts News, James Brown, Tom Morello, Politics, Matthew Crawford, Judd Apatow, George Clooney, Hip-Hop, Emmy Awards, Big Banks, Wall Street, Howard Zinn, Boycott, Art, Nurse Jackie, Entertainment News

Wanna honor Labor Day but not work at it? Check out any of these pop culture expressions from the last year. Just in time for your nod to Labor Day, ...

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Worker Worthy Standouts: The Best Films About Work for Labor Day 2010

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Chile, Josh Brolin, Bbc, Workers, Economy, Jobs, Matt Damon, Martin-Starr, Marisa Tomei, History Channel, Movies, Bailout, Michael Moore, Katrina, Up in the Air, The Yes Men, Humble-Pie, Danny Glover, Sundance Film Festival, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, Economic Crisis, Judd Apatow, George Clooney, Film, Adventureland, Wall Street, Work, Howard Zinn, Jason Reitman, Kerry Washington, Janitor, Chris Moore, Entertainment News

There's a blog to be written about Greatest Films of All-Time about Workers and work themes but for now, lets look at those made or released in the last year. In terms of feature films, there are 5 standouts.

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The World's First Climate War!

Asher Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Criticism, Maldives, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Gulf Oil Spill, The Yes Men, Green News

It's estimated that only a small fraction of the oil that's being hemorrhaged into the Gulf of Mexico is visible to us. However, it's what we can't see that we should be really worrying about.

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The Brazen U.S. Chamber of Commerce Campaign to Hurt the Economy

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hurricane Katrina, Chamber of Commerce, The Yes Men, Al Franken, Epa, Politics News

The nation's richest corporate lobby group with a far-reaching right-wing, anti-consumer partisan political agenda, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has become a despicable organization.

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Yes Men 2.0: May a Thousand Yes Men and Women Bloom

The Yes Men | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Activism, Corporations, Political Humor, Global Warming, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Politics News

It's high time for us to get systematic about helping activist groups highlight life-or-death issues -- with or without the Yes Men's participation. That's what the Yes Lab is all about.

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The Yes Men Prank Davos, Send Out Press Release With Blankfein Confessions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Video, James O'keefe Arrested, Davos 2010, James O'keefe, Davos, Pranks, The Yes Men, World Economic Forum, Eat the Press, Business News

Earlier today, a press release was sent out from the World Economic Forum, describing how "world leaders" in Davos have pledged a "strategy to end pov...

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Canada Gets Punk'd In Copenhagen: Work Of The Yes Men, Mayhap?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Climate Change, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Pranks, Canada, The Yes Men, Green News

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...

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The Yes Men Rule

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: B'eau Pal, Bhopal, Dow Chemical, The Yes Men, Entertainment News

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.

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Yes Men Storm Whole Foods In Manhattan

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Slideshow, Whole Foods Protest, Whole Foods, Yes Men Movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, New York News

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...

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Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media In 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

It's New Year's Eve, that time of year when you toss aside your better instincts and succumb to America's need for Contemplative Listicles that Explai...

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

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bhopal, Rethink Reviews, Union Carbide, Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Kim, Dow Chemical, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Entertainment News

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.

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Arlen Specter Chased By The Yes Men In "SurvivaBalls"

The Huffington Post | Eric Sorensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arlen Specter, Survivaball, Yes Men, Specter 2010, Climate Change, Global Warming, The Yes Men, Senator Arlen Specter, Survivaball-Yes-Men, Video, Green News

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...

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The Yes Men Prank Coke In Copenhagen

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Yes Men Hopenhagen, Copenhagen 2009, The Yes Men, Yes Men Prank Coke, Green News

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...

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Trick or Treat for Climate Change

Amy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Goodman, Climate Change, The Yes Men, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Maldives Underwater Meeting, Politics News

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.

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