The Yes Men are revolting!

It may seem that the only times I post here it is to endorse crowdfunding projects – but believe me, that is not intentional. Still, I’d like to point to yet another funding campaign, this time on Kickstarter. The infamous and brilliant Yes Men are launching a new documentary project titled “The Yes Men are […]

Yes Men derail massive Chevron greenwashing campaign #adbusting #greenwashing

The Yes Men strike again. Elegantly and effectively as always. This time targeting a new massive greenwashing campaign by oil mogul Chevron. Here is the press release, taken from the Yes Men site: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2010 Massive Chevron Ad Campaign Derailed, Media Slapstick Follows News outlets, citizens duped by web of deceit […]

Yes Men pawn Chamber of Commerce over climate change legislation

From the Boing Boing blog: The Yes Men strike again. Posing as members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they held a press conference today to announce that the chamber would abandon its opposition to climate-change legislation now in Congress. Watch the video: And read the press release. I love these guys. UPDATE (Oct 22, […]

Huge Yes Men shenanigans on Monday in New York

The uncanny Yes Men are up to something big on Monday. Five days ago, they sent out an email to their mailing list with a message saying that “If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (…) We can’t […]

Dow vacates London HQ to avoid Bhopal water

Just received this from the admirable Yes Men: July 13, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “B’EAU-PAL” WATER SCARES DOW EXECS INTO HIDING Plans to contribute to climate action in lead-up to Copenhagen begin to take shape Photos: http://www.theyesmen.org/blog/dow-runs-scared-from-water London – A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water – this time not from the melting Alps, nor […]

Bail out the Yes Men!

The Yes Men needs our help: Dear Friend, ‘Tis the season for government handouts. But since we aren’t a giant corporation, we thought we’d ask you instead – because you’ve been generous in the past. So here’s our plea: we need money to finish our film. It’s going to premiere in one month at the […]

Support the spectacle

Just donated 5 bucks to these guys (the following communication is from the Nonsense NYC newsletter): “Dear Friends, If you live in or near New York City, or plan on being here in early October, please sign up to be part of a very special event that we’re planning with some amazing activist groups. We […]