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Skipped out on Church today? Rev. Billy can help make up for it.

Aug 3, 2008
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I just love Satire especially when the obvious truth hurts so much. I know it is not the holiday season yet but I believe Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping messages are valid the year around. In fact, their messages have been erected into a movement against the devil itself ----(over-consumption, consumerism, and the fires of eternal debt)

Please take the time to watch and ponder the question: are we really experiencing a shopocalypse?

YouTube - What Would Jesus Buy_ Changelujah!

I hope they're NOT looking for Oil!

Jul 27, 2008
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Nasa_mars_mission5

I always wondered why those contraptions are being sent to the Moon and Mars. If we cannot extract enough here on Mother Earth then this must be the likely choice. Or?

Rev. Billy

Dec 13, 2007
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Rev. Billy

http://hemisphericinstitute.org/journ...

From his beginnings as a sidewalk preacher protesting the corporate redevelopment of Times Square in New York City to his trenchant anti-war, anti-empire actions today, Reverend Billy (pseudonym of artist-activist Bill Talen) has taken his theatrical activism to a range of sites which he calls "contested spaces": those urban sites that have been recently commodified, commercialized, gentrified or placed under state or police surveillance. In this vein, he has staged numerous "Shopping Interventions" in which he, along with prime collaborator Savitri D and the artists in "the Stop Shopping Choir," often perform in transnational corporate spaces themselves—from the Disney Store to Starbucks—in an effort to intervene in the seamless corporate architecture and choreography of shopping, or to "re-narrate" them with alternate forms of sociality and with the memories of the lives they displace.

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Can I get a witness?
Slow down your consumption brothers and sisters. Back away from the Starbucks and the 5 dollar lattes and other similar vices that entrap us all.

Morals v Malls. Who will win the battle?

Dec 9, 2007
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What Would Jesus Add To Lolas Wardrobe

Morals v Malls. Who will win the battle. Well...my bet is on Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping and the many sympathizers like myself. Once again, please do not pass up watching this community service message. You will not be disappointed if you approach it with an open mind and heart.

Reverend Billy and What Would Jesus Buy

Dec 9, 2007
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What Would Jesus Buy Trailer

Brothers and Sisters as a community service message, I present to you the "What Would Jesus Buy" trailer. Please take the few minutes out of your busy schedule and watch for when all is said and done it might move us to slow down our over-consumption frenzy. Click here wwjbmovie to find a theater near you.

Buying nothing can be a good strategy for living

Nov 26, 2007
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Yet, she says buying Nothing can be a good strategy for living:
"By combining strategies of buying less, making, sharing, bartering, repairing, renting, scavenging, and buying differently, many families have dramatically reduced their shopping habits and reaped sometimes surprising benefits. Many have found that buying less means having more - more time, more fun, better health, increased financial savings, and indeed, greater freedom."

Please brothers and sisters buy nothing on 23 Nov 07!!!

Nov 22, 2007
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Buy Nothing Day 2007

Let us think about this rationally. Do we really need that big screen LCD TV or new dress or shoes when we already have a closet full? Play the video not only once but twice. In fact, play it for your family and friends. Hell, play it for your enemies. The word has to get out and that is by all means necessary.

Truthdig - Reports - What Would Jesus Buy?

Nov 22, 2007
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Truthdig - Reports - What Would Jesus Buy?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2...

"Black Friday” is the name retailers have given to the day after Thanksgiving in their attempt to make Christmas synonymous with shopping. On Black Friday, Americans are expected to flock to the malls and shopping centers, eager for discounts, armed with plastic. Business analysts fill the airwaves with predictions on how the fickle consumer will perform, how fuel prices and the subprime mortgage crisis will impact holiday shopping. Black Friday is followed by “Cyber Monday,” a name coined by the retail industry to hype online shopping. Listening to the business news, one would conclude that the future not only of the U.S. economy but of humanity itself depends on mass, frenzied shopping for the holidays.

I am not buying a damn thing this coming "Black Friday"!!! In fact, gift giving on my part is canceled this year. Just like it was in the yesteryears.

Just in case you don't read the entire article and find my stand point unusual here is an excerpt:

This week, Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee, standing in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, released a stunning report on the sweatshop conditions in which crucifixes are manufactured in China. St. Patrick’s, Trinity Church in New York and the Association for Christian Retail all sell crucifixes traced to the Junxingye factory in Dongguan, China. There, women as young as 15 work seven days a week, 14 hours a day, and earn only 9 cents per hour, after room and board are deducted from their pay. What would Jesus buy, indeed.

Black Friday is also “Buy Nothing Day”—a global boycott of shopping and consumerism. Started by Kalle Lasn and his colleagues at Vancouver-based Adbusters magazine, Buy Nothing Day seeks to place the ad-fueled and news-media-supported shopping frenzy in a global context. He says, “Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great, but they are Band-Aid solutions if we don’t address the core problem: We have to consume less.”