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Storming The Mall Of America

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From What Would Jesus Buy? - the Rev, Choir, and 100 audience members invade the Mall Of America during the Christmas shopping season
What Would Jesus Buy?

Unmarriage Ceremony in Central Park with Reverend Billy

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Video from our Unmarriage Until Gay Marriage ceremony on Valentine's Day. Thanks to gllafc on YouTube!

Rev and Choir On CNN's Campbell Brown, Christmas 2009

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CNN
Rev and Choir preach a community Christmas to the congregation of CNN.
Rev Billy on CNN's Campbell Brown

Local-ujah with Reverend Billy and Savitri D.

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Rev & Savi talk about a local approach to addressing climate change with Grist. Local-ujah!
Local-ujah with Reverend Billy and Savitri D.

The fourth annual unconventional holiday movie list

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We all know that Christmas is far too commercial. I mean, Charlie Brown told us that years ago. Yet most of us continue to play the same put-that-reindeer-on-my-credit-card games every year, spending money on gifts that our loved ones don't really want or need. This 2007 documentary follows one man -- Bill Talen, aka the Reverend Billy -- who takes the members of his "Church of Stop Shopping" on the road during the holiday season in an effort to make us knock it off.
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Rev Interview On CNN American Morning Thanksgiving 2009

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Buy less, give more! The Rev CNN American Morning, Thanksgiving Morning, talking about Buy Nothing Day.

Reverend Billy and Choir Crash Macy's Opening On Buy Nothing Day

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CNN
Who's that guy with the bullhorn? Is he with the Rockettes?

Reverend Billy's Bailout

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Would Jesus take a bailout?

Confronted with the once-in-a-century opportunity to remake the financial system, the reformers in Washington have a choice: Succumb to the temptation of serving financial supermarkets or lift up community banks and street-level economies.

Enter Reverend Billy Talen, the New York-based street preacher, performer and activist who -- along with his flock, the Church of Life After Shopping -- believes government has a moral obligation to support communities before big banks.
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The ‘war of the Rosie’ centers on pavilion’s use

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Back in the days of the singing telegram, a popular phrase was “Say it with flowers.” That’s what the group Union Square Not For Sale did last Wednesday, when it held a rally calling on City Councilmember Rosie Mendez to help keep the Union Square pavilion restaurant-free. . .
The Villager
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