I love The Yes Men, “a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce. Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, our targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else.”
With the recent BP oil spill — quite frankly — freaking me the hell out, I am lending my support and donating my money to these activists by supporting their most recent crowdsourced fundraising campaign.
They are raising funds for The Yes Lab, which is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help activist groups carry out Yes-Men-style projects on their own. There are four Yes Lab projects already in production. With your help, there could be a lot more. The goal is to raise $30,000 by the end of the summer, and they’re already just shy of $12,000.
If you help out, they’ll thank you with some seriously weird things, anything from a thank you issued ‘in a form that may scare your mother’ to ephemera from around the office, to ‘a thrift store suit worn by The Yes Men in one of their actions, or underwater.’
I feel like it’s a good time to take this mess the world is becoming into our hands. To do that we need to take action, and support those who already are. Donate today.
