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A Prayer
March 8, 2010 by Rev Billy
Could we be as brave as the heroes from revolutions past? We are facing a different foe. The powers-that-be are shape-shifting constantly. Consumerism and Militarism are so ambient, so plastic, so media-become-real. Resistance itself must be re-invented, in the sense that each of these heroes we’ve prayed to – each was a creator. Angela Davis‘ strategy for change was different than that of Bernadette Devlin, or the students in Tiananmen Square, or Toussaint L’ouverture.
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I've Been To The Mountain-Top Removal! And it's the Devil!
March 3, 2010 by Rev Billy
Have we been to the mountain-top?
Did we do all we could do?
JP Morgan rains down rock
Exploding loans from the Devil came due...
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The Tea Party Has A Point
February 27, 2010 by Rev Billy
Our community becomes very spacey. You can live somewhere all your life and find yourself surrounded by products – you might quickly become an utterly un-selfed consumer like a game-show contestant or a tourist. Products are not psychologically neutral. You can turn off the TV and head for the hills, but the hills are alive with fluorescent and bug-eyed tchochkes leaping from the walls of shopping centers that came out of nowhere.
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Life Outside the Bathtub
February 26, 2010 by Savitri D
There is a sad wet snow falling today. We went to the park and the only other creatures we saw were down covered ducks and geese and a couple of swans floating in between the ice floes
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The Newest Face
February 20, 2010 by Rev Billy
We don’t notice that as consumers our lives become less and less interesting. We don’t notice that the champions are becoming consumers, too. The newest faces are less and less interesting to us, because they were over-achieving since childhood and, missing the variety of experience, they lack have a full personality now. We notice the smiles and cries of the newest face next to the logo, but we don’t notice that all we hear is the word “Awesome!”
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He Must Have Done Something
February 17, 2010 by Savitri D
Yesterday a federal judge ruled that parade laws limiting gatherings of 50 or more pedestrians or cyclists in New York City are constitutional. So 50 people cycling together DO need a permit
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Meditations before the “Unmarriage Until Gay Marriage”
February 12, 2010 by Rev Billy
The love people. Love is when the barriers fall with the clothing, and in the sensual closeness the ego is dissolved on the wind. We vow at our wedding to pool our resources, to renew our trust, to relax into the mystery of it. Something in love between two people alone - is the key to what we must achieve in the world of eight billion. All of us must protect the right of all of us to make a life of love.
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Be Gay and Say I DO
February 5, 2010 by Savitri D
We are pretty deep in organizing the unmarriage for gay marriage event on the 14th, and I want to air some concerns. We have come late to the whole question of gay marriage in part because so many of our gay and lesbian friends express their own qualms about it being the wrong thing at the time, or not really the thing they would go for right now.
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What Is The Future of America?
February 5, 2010 by Rev Billy
We have a record of getting drunk on the wrong future. Generally someone makes a great deal of money on our delirium.
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The Peace Elders Are Hiring
January 30, 2010 by Rev Billy
 We look at these extraordinary, almost impossible lives. We see the arrests and mockery and martyrdom. To the people who pursued peace memorably, who re-issued peace as something real - it was a solid job they did every day. The ego’s fears, the danger, and the angst about the strange hopelessness of it all – we need to get over it. Peace is a job, and the elders are hiring.
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