Meeting Mike from the Yes Men

While attending the STEPS Summer school in Brighton I had the absolute privilege of meeting "Mike", one half of the activist duo called the Yes Men and attended a YesLab workshop which was a series of brainstorms and training to help activist groups carry out media-getting creative actions, focused on their own campaign goals.

Yes Labs are a way for social justice organizations to take advantage of all that the Yes Men have learned-not only about their own ways of doing things, but those they've come in contact with over the decade and a half they've been using creative performances to shed light on important social and environmental issues.

As a researcher I have always struggled with the notion of being an 'honest broker' which is at odds with my inner-activist which wants to change systems/structures and values for a more equitable, just and sustainable future. Attending a Yes Lab is just what was needed to rekindle that activist spark!

The Yes Men, are