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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  2. The Activist Cookbook
    A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
  3. Anti-capitalism campaigners distribute spoof edition of Financial Times
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Anti-capitalism campaigners in London have published a spoof edition of the Financial Times today as Britian prepares to host next week's G20 summit in London.
  4. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
    A Toolbox for Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Ideas for organizers.
  5. Chevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A day-long comedy of errors, and Chevron's waking nightmare, began when Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, together with the Yes Lab, pre-empted Chevron's multi-million dollar "We Agree" ad campaign with a satirical version of their own. The activists' version highlights Chevron's environmental and social abuses -- especially the toxic mess the oil giant has left in Ecuador, which Chevron has been attempting to "greenwash" for years.
  6. From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
  7. The Hoax Archive
    Resource Type: Website
  8. Imposters shock oil conference
    Yes Men" propose burning humanity as "vivoleum" fuel in case of climate calamity

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, on June 15, 2007.
  9. Improperganda
    The Art of the Publicity Stunt

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    A survey of publicity stunts, scams, hypes, and PR heists
  10. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?
  11. McDonald's Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    McDonald's denied participating in a campaign called "Three Strikes, You're In!" that rewarded New Yorkers who have been victims of NYPD's stop and frisk policies with a Happy Meal. The Yes Men have confirmed that "Three Strikes, You're In!" is a hoax.
  12. The Newsfakers
    Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
  13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
    April 1 issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
  14. Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
  15. Postmodernism Generator
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
    A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.
  16. Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    It's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference.
  17. Skaggs, Joey
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. (Born 1945).
  18. The Skeptic's Dictionary
    Resource Type: Website
    A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions.
  19. The Snowden Hoax
    How a Lie Traveled Around the World Before the Truth Could Get Its Boots On

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  20. 'Special' New York Times Blankets Cities with Message of Hope and Change
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Hundreds of independent writers, artists, and activists are claiming credit for an elaborate project, 6 months in the making, in which 1.2 million copies of a "special edition" of the New York Times were distributed in cities across the U.S.
  21. Total terrorism solution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism.
  22. Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, who spoofed the work of the journal's editor, Michel Maffesoli.
  23. Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
  24. Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."


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