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 back to retail interventions   Atlanta, Georgia: Get Back! Photo: Chris Campbell, Atlanta Arrested shortly after Starbucks sermon, held in hotel cell in the bowels of the Marriot Marquis. | Parade through downtown Atlanta enroute to Georgia State sermon Excerpt from "Creative Loafing" alternative paper in Atlanta: Reverend Billy, the New York performance artist who planned to stage an anti-consumption march through downtown Atlanta, was detained by Marriott security at a hotel coffee bar, perhaps for preaching within 10 yards of a corporate logo. Those things have rights now, I hear. Photographs of the melee suggest some kind of post-modern dinner theater: white reverend detained by black security in the "city too busy to hate" for spreading his message of "stop shopping." For crucial minutes there, the South's reputation seemed to be once again on the line as an oppressive state with a lousy sense of humor. But a member of his congregation with some clout intervened. The good Reverend was allowed to proceed with his march, and the show went on. Rev Preaches Peace in Halliburton Cafeteria The sinners of Houston, Texas pause in their chewing Reverend Billy and his Houston converts to the Church of Stop Shopping went to Houston Center this afternoon, as employees of local warprofiteer Halliburton, and other multinationals were taking their lunch break. He preached the gospel of repentance from greed and exploitation, to the mases in the Church of Fast Food. After making one pass through the foodcourt, Houston Center security tried to silence the preaching of the Reverend, saying "This is private property, you can't disturb the customers." It is now Halliburton Awareness Month, (known to some as October), and this was a great kick off to the exorcism of Halliburton, and their profiting on the suffering of American troops and Iraqis, from the city of Houston. :: back to top :: |
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   Brother Michael's Church Bulletin Diatribes, Data and Discussion. Blog-a-luia! 
My greatest sin has been the Curse of Junk Food, which I have struggled with all my life; also, I've been hounded by the Demon of Acquisition of Books, a failing handed down from my late mother. Other than those, however, I have always felt alienated from this consumer culture, and more so every day. Also, I have been blessed by my marriage to a woman who should be a saint in your church - she has spent her entire life Not Shopping, but making whenever possible, and using local food to cook all her family's meals, making clothes and entertainment as well.
I wanted to call your attention to a book I just read: Patriotic Treason by Evan Carton, a biography of John Brown, who I now seen as the most important American of the 19th century. If Consumerism is the slavery of the current age, I see you as carrying on John Brown's work. Bless you, and I will continue to follow your work and support you when I can. -Tim Thank you Tim. It's hard to call buying books a sin. 'less its from super mall anchor stores like Barnes and Noble, who kill the indy shops and put all us readers in cars... I have to admit an admiration for John Brown too. He had some self-righteous violence in him, certainly, but his zero tolerance for slavery and angry great beard... he is undoubtedly necessary for that mix of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe that sparked the abolition to slavery. Patriotic Treason. Alright I'll read it. -- Rev  Stay in touch, hear from us, confess! 
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