Yes Lab

Reed Divests

Reveal date: May 19 2014 Status: Complete Partners: Fossil Free Reed Tagged: climate change, divestment, fossil fuels

Yes Man and Reed College alum Mike Bonanno teamed up with students to deliver a fake announcement that Reed will divest from fossil fuels over his commencement speech.

Operation Second Thanks

Reveal date: Apr 30 2014 Status: Complete Partners: Idle No More, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Tito Ybarra, Yansa, Black Mesa Water Coalition, CODEPINK, Greenpeace, The 1491s Tagged: climate change, Department of Energy, fracking, Homeland Security, Keystone XL

Environmental and indigenous rights activists team up with the Yes Men to impersonate the U.S. Department of Energy, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of Defense, and announce the nation's new energy plan.

SaveCanada

Reveal date: Sep 16 2013 Status: Complete Tagged: Canada, Keystone XL, pipeline, Tar Sands, TransCanada, YL

In towns across Canada, troupes of mischievous activists disrupted the attempts of TransCanada (of Keystone XL fame) to ram through another Tar Sands pipeline, Energy East, by dressing as TransCanada reps, but with "SaveCanada" logos, and telling the real story.

The Gazprom/Shell Polar Patnership

Reveal date: Aug 21 2013 Status: Complete Partners: Greenpeace Tagged: Amsterdam, arctic, Gazprom, oil, Shell

Royal Dutch Shell and Russia's Gazprom team up to open the newly accessible Russian Arctic to oil drilling. To help them celebrate, Greenpeace teamed up with the Yes Lab and activists from Russia and the Netherlands to throw a barge party on the canals of Amsterdam, complete with a drugged up polar bear, a marching band, and a singing Russian child.

Blog

Update on Amsterdam's Op de Valreep June 23, 2014

Help Us Finish Our Movie! May 15, 2014

Contractors dance in support of renewables revolution May 1, 2014

Feb. 27th in NYC: Throwing Monkey Wrenches in the Deportation Machine February 20, 2014

Training in NYC – February 8-9, 2014 January 14, 2014

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