The Church of Stop Shopping is inside of each of us, that part of even the most hypnotized shopper that hears a distant prayer: "If I back away from the product before me, a new life will open up!" Amen.
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- Members:
- Reverend Billy, Savitri D, the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and the Not Buying It Band, the Stop Shopping Order Of Digital Mysteries. Full bios at http://www.revbilly.com
- Genre:
- Gospel
- Hometown:
- New York, NY
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Sunday, February 1 at 1:00pm - NYC Christmas Revival At Dixon...
Dixon Place
Sunday, December 14 at 3:00pm - Stop Shopping NYC Christmas Re...
Dixon Place
Sunday, December 7 at 3:00pm - Live Webcast! Stop Shopping Ho...
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Sunday, December 7 at 11:00am - Buy Nothing Day NYC 2008
Union Square Park
Friday, November 28 at 3:00pm - Shopocalypse Revival and Album...
Highline Ballroom
Sunday, November 9 at 1:00pm - Celebrate the History of Union...
Union Square ParK
Thursday, October 23 at 6:00pm
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Church of Stop ShoppingCreated on October 14, 2008 at 2:55pm
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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping We've posted a slew of videos from our series The Last Televangelist on our Reverend Billy Talen site! Come to church, children! Click on the link and become a FAN!
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Don't forget to become a fan of Reverend Billy Talen by clicking on that link and then on "Become A Fan." We'll be shutting down this and our other Facebook sites very soon. Make the switch! It's an effort in consolidation! Amen!
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Children, we are starting a new Facebook page! We'll shut this site down and Kill The Buddha, as they say. Move on. Please follow our comic spiritual resistance over to Reverend Billy Talen. Just click the link and become a fan. It's an effort in consolidation, amen!
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping WE ARE STARTING A NEW SITE AND SHUTTING THIS ONE DOWN. Follow our comic spiritual resistance over to Reverend Billy Talen . Just click on the link and become a fan! Cuz: My mayoral ambitions subside by the minute. We'll shut this site down and Kill The Buddha, as they say. Move on. And DON'T GO YANKEES (or your investors Bloomberg/NYC and Goldman Sachs either). -- Rev
The Preacher Who Would Be Mayor | Features | The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts &
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On Election eve, Henry Stewart looks back at the gadfly campaign of Reverend Billy, and what it means to local democracy.
I feel closer to solving the riddle of activism in 2009. We’ve known how conservative the Democrat/Working Families and the Republican/Independent parties are. It’s Coke and Pepsi, it’s McDonalds and Burger King. The two party system enforces a strict censorship. We ...
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
NYC's political culture resembles Italy’s. An oligarchy gathers around a short billionaire who markets an imitation democracy. You want to go in two directions at once, comedy and radical politics. Tomorrow, Sun Nov 1the "Life After Shopping Gospel Choir" starts up a brightly colored shadowgovernment at the Highline Ba...llroom. Come to Revbilly.com, click"Events" for our recession tickets. Elect-a-lujah!Read More
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
In our newest campaign video, Rev. Billy continues our tradition of
breaking through King Mike's $85 million wall. Interrupt-a-lujah!
Source: www.youtube.com
http://www.voterevbilly.org -- Reverend Billy interrupts Mike Bloomberg to tell him what this city is about.
I’m personally confused by what happens to us. We make a terrible agreement when we are in subways together, out in traffic or on bicycles, going to work, tending to our children. I try to catch the sales job as it hits us, but I miss it. Everyone in this city feels the sensation of the lie. ...
We have myriad emergencies in our city. What would a good mayor do? What needs to change is how we live. That’s the point of change. We are already standing on our movie set. The drama, the make-or-break - is right here. ...
Three weeks to go to the election. Last night I interrupted Mike Bloomberg’s opening statement in the debate. We’re trying to poke through the $65 million TV screen that weighs down on us in Gotham City. My...
