Annapurna Pictures has purchased “Sorry to Bother You” following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The studio was blunt in its statement: “We f—ing love this movie”. A pro-union, anti-corporate tale of late capitalist dystopia, “Sorry to Bother You” takes on racism and corporate greed through the story of an Oakland-based telemarketer named Cassius […]

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger spoke on indigenous health, Indigenous communities and climate change at the American Public Health Association conference.     Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is the Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action, Canada’s only Indigenous-led climate justice organization. A member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation(ACFN), Deranger has a far reaching reputation for challenging fossil […]

              Unicorn Riot are on a speaking tour of campuses and community centers throughout 2018 in support of their feature documentary Black Snake Killaz. Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film explores actions taken by water protectors to […]

A recurrent theme of our speakers’ feature films and immersive experiences premiering at Sundance 2018 is the ethical, technological and social aspects of the systems we build. It’s a look forward at modern dystopias and failing empires. For the last few years, Lance Weiler has woven Artificial Intelligence into his immersive storytelling experiences. He pushes […]

Unicorn Riot‘s Black Snake Killaz, their feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, premieres today.     Black Snake Killaz explores actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and highlights actions taken by law enforcement, military, and corporate mercenaries to quell the months-long protest. Black […]

  “A society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity and obedience and submission, which is why every tyrant, the most overt to the most subtle, craves that system.” Glenn Greenwald, the journalist at the heart of the exposure of the Edward Snowden files and their revelations […]

When Edward Snowden joined Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men for his first in-person public appearance on U.S. soil since receiving a Presidential pardon, the bi-partisan crowd went wild. Following the Yes Men’s announcement of Edward Snowden’s pardon, the capacity crowd at the Los Angeles Convention Center burst into cheers and rushed […]

Drought-stricken California carnivores were bewildered and amused when dirt-smeared beef industry reps, accompanied by notorious vegan Moby, told them to stop showering and drink their own urine in order to keep eating meat. In true Yes Men style, the campaign’s ridiculous call to action was indistinguishable from typical inane corporate “astroturf” solutions, and press outlets […]

[The Yes Men are political activists who carry out elaborate and often hilarious media pranks against climate-change deniers and psychopathic, polluting corporations. Their latest stunt? Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum (not their real names) are giving away their secrets to activists in a series of workshops and lectures. Want to get your hands dirty and […]

Just discovered this bit of awesomeness via Crayonbeats: This Earth Day, a hip hop artist named Olmeca released a song called “Shiva”, about eco-feminist and earth justice activist Vandana Shiva. He was inspired to write it after meeting her at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education last year, and enlisted the […]

Natalie Portman got Kanye-Wested for divestment by climate activists Mike Bonanno and Gitz Crazyboy at the Cinema for Peace gala. Mike and Gitz drew a strong show of hands pledging to divest from fossil fuels from the moneyed glitterati in the audience, before security dragged them offstage.                 […]

I met with Ai Wei Wei, China’s most controversial artist, at his studio in Beijing in November 2014. We debated whether it was possible to nourish creativity and revolutionize education in China by creating communities where people have support doing what they really love. Mitch Altman, inventor and organizer of the visit, goes around the […]

Dr Vandana Shiva will be on a speaking tour of North America in March 2015 and October 2015. She recorded this message to kick off the coming year, which has been declared The Year of Soil. As the debate over the future of the world’s food supply intensified in 2014, genetically modified seed / pesticide […]

Evil Twin Booking Agency collaborated with Concordia Student Union to host Glenn Greenwald’s lecture “State Surveillance and the Assault on Civil Liberties” as part of Concordia University’s Surveillance Week. The event was a fundraiser for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an organization that defends journalism exposing corruption and law-breaking in government.   Glenn is a journalist […]

There is so much to be grateful for this weekend. In the lead up to #PeoplesClimate March on 9/21, The Yes Men and a bevy of other organizers are participating in a day of teach-ins and workshops. Vandana Shiva will be marching in the PCM with the Organic Consumers Association. On 9/22, thousands of people will […]

Graduating Reed College students and their parents gave a standing ovation when their commencement speaker announced the school’s decision to divest from fossil fuels and re-invest their money in community-owned, renewable energy projects. Reed’s President and Chair of the Board of Trustees quietly wrung their hands while the crowd of parents and students and faculty cheered. The only […]

Dear France, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland and Spain: Boots Riley is speaking and performing with The Coup in your cities in May. Hooray! If you want to put up posters in exchange for backstage passes to the following shows, get in touch. Boots speaks on Hip-Hop, criminalization and mass incarceration. He shares the honor with fellow […]

The Yes Men, culture jamming activist group,  have struck again. Hooray! Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno infiltrated the National Homeland Security Congress and proposed a plan to convert the United States to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. They were joined by Gitz Crazyboy, an activist from the Athabascan Chipewyan First Nations, whose land includes […]

Dr Vandana Shiva’s event in Kansas City tonight is SOLD OUT!  Her lecture, “Cultivating Diversity, Freedom and Hope,” will address the value of diversity in nature and in society, as well how the monoculture of the mind can destroy that diversity at every level. If you want to hear her message of local ownership and self-sufficiency […]

For the first time ever, The Yes Men are in Argentina giving a creative and interactive presentation at Encuentro La Palabra: Culturas Digitales (Federal Meeting of the Word) in Buenos Aires. [ To book the Yes Men to speak at your university, campus, conference or event email info (at) eviltwinbooking (dot) com ]  President of Argentina […]