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The Yes Men have impersonated officials from Dow, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Halliburton, the US federal gov't, and many others in comedic direct actions that get tons of press around some of the biggest issues.

The Yes Men are currently making a movie, The Yes Men Are Revolting, that uses irreverent humor and disruptive action to focus on climate change, the corporate money in politics that keeps us from addressing it, and the Movement that can take our Democracy back.

They are also making a human-staffed platform—the "Action Switchboard"—that will give every single viewer of the film a way to plug directly into ongoing direct actions, or get lots of help starting new ones, around goals like the establishment of a carbon tax, the protection of the Arctic, etc.

Blog Entries by The Yes Men

What Is a Gift?

(96) Comments | Posted November 16, 2012 | 5:46 PM

By K. Miles and Andy Bichlbaum

As the holiday season fast approaches, it has come to our attention that some of our city officials need some help understanding the concept of "gift."

On Monday, NYCHA chairman John Rhea visited a public housing complex that had been without power,...

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A Child's Guide to Enjoying Hurricane Sandy

(7) Comments | Posted October 28, 2012 | 9:07 PM

A really big storm is heading New York's way. It's going to be the confluence of a garden-variety hurricane (these days, "garden-variety" means unseasonable and oversized) with two other unseasonably large storms that will happen to end up in the same place at the...

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#ShellFAIL Viral Campaigners Exposed (VIDEO)

(5) Comments | Posted June 8, 2012 | 4:30 PM

Activists claim responsibility for viral sensation, corporate makeover.

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.

"This experience shows that a few energized people can compete...

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A Homeless Family Occupies a Foreclosed Home in Brooklyn

(1) Comments | Posted December 8, 2011 | 8:12 AM

This is what took place inside a foreclosed home in Brooklyn on Tuesday. (High-resolution version here.)



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Could the Chamber of Commerce Leak Scandal Rouse America's "Facebook Generation"?

(45) Comments | Posted February 16, 2011 | 1:55 PM

By Andy Bichlbaum and Joseph Huff-Hannon. Mike Bonanno contributed to this story.

Defendants had a common plan to engage in acts... that deceived the press and public....These infringing and fraudulent acts are antithetical to public debate on important issues, because they prevent the public and the press...

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

(4) Comments | Posted May 12, 2010 | 4:09 PM

It ain't always easy being a Yes Man.

For years now, and especially since releasing our film, we've been been flooded with emails saying we should go after evil company A, or evil politician B, or military-industrial complex C.

Naturally, we can't. There are way too many evildoers,...

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The Best Pranks of 2010

(17) Comments | Posted April 1, 2010 | 1:00 PM

By Andy Bichlbaum and Joseph Huff-Hannon

Strange winds are blowing across this wide, weird land of ours; all is not as it seems. It must be April Fool's Day.

We start with Pepco, a D.C. area energy provider, who startled many area residents today with a door-to-door marketing...

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

(6) Comments | Posted November 2, 2009 | 6:40 PM

While you were sleeping this past Sunday evening, a most unusual incident transpired in San Francisco. Three top Chevron executives led a procession of hundreds from the Roxie Cinema at 16th and Valencia to the Chevron station at Market and Castro. It was quite a sight.

The execs stood...

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

(19) Comments | Posted October 5, 2009 | 9:51 PM

We all know the facts.

Free-market capitalism is dangerous. It's run by a whole lot of bad, powerful people, and it hurts a whole lot of people who don't deserve to be hurt.

So much for the obvious. Now what?

Our movie, The Yes Men Fix...

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First ACORN. Citibank, AIG, Goldman Sachs Next?

(8) Comments | Posted September 26, 2009 | 3:12 PM

Congress Went After ACORN.
Big Business Must Be Next!

By Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos (WaPo)

We are the Yes Men, two guys who dress up as powerful businessmen, propose horrible things to audiences of actual powerful businesspeople and film them cheerfully applauding our most outrageous --...

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Why the Yes Men Said "No"

(4) Comments | Posted July 2, 2009 | 7:50 PM

From Andy (the floating head on the left above the green letters):

A few weeks ago, I was telling an Israeli filmmaker friend how excited I was to be going to Jerusalem. Why are you coming to Jerusalem? he asked. Our film is in the Jerusalem International Film Festival,...

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