Greenpeace, the Yes Lab, and members of the Occupy movement are claiming responsibility for a set of actions that have focused intense attention on Shell's Arctic drilling program.
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!
NEW YORK -- A diverse group of performance artists and protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement headed to the Theater District this ...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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, ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...