The Yes Men Fix the World

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

The Yes Men | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Yes Men Storm Whole Foods In Manhattan

Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Can the "Yes Men" and Michael Moore Fix Capitalism?

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sheri and Allan Rivlin

The Yes Men have a firm Michael Moore legacy (he appears in the trailer for their 2003 film, The Yes Men) but they do not yet have his audiences.

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Democracy WOW! With The Yes Men

Sara Benincasa | Posted 05.25.2011

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

The Yes Men | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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

The Yes Men | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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First ACORN. Citibank, AIG, Goldman Sachs Next?

The Yes Men | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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The Yes Men Fix The World One Prank at a Time

Liza Weisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bhopal, Andy Bichlbaum, Biofuels, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Hbo, Mike Bonanno, Exxon Mobil, HBO Documentaries, Free Market, Corporate Greed, The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World, Pranks, Entertainment News
Liza Weisberg

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

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Third Screen: How Now Dow... Chemical?

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Why the Yes Men Said "No"

The Yes Men | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Holocaust, Boycott, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Naomi Klein, Film, Israel, The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, The Yes Men Fix the World, Entertainment News
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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.

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