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We talk. We listen. We look for ways to tell The Story of Shopping and The Story of Stop Shopping. Blogallujah!

January 23, 2009 by Savitri D

Pew Trust as just released an interesting poll of "priorities"--1500 people responding to questions about the future, whats important, whats on their mind etc.. Does this match your priorities or not?

Study War No More!

January 18, 2009 by Rev Billy

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Singing Down By the Riverside

If You Can't See It Is It Still There?

January 14, 2009 by Savitri D

From today's NY Times a report on how bad things really are- retail sales down a whopping .1 percent (yes .1 percent!) last year. Here is some despair from Wal-Mart ceo "Mr. Sweatshop" Lee Scott:

Thoughts on Palestine

January 13, 2009 by Rev Billy

I don't think Peace, or even national defense, can come from the imagination of the enemy’s evil.

Rev offers today's holy writ: "The Creation" by E. O. Wilson

January 12, 2009 by Rev Billy

Rev remarks: ...from the beginning our Stop Shopping Church we've had two big beliefs. One: Let's not consent to be consumers, because then we're idiots and Two: Consumers are killing the earth.

Long Live Love

January 8, 2009 by Savitri D

We just came from the Hoover Dam. It was always an amazingly militarized place, like something out of a old time Nazi movie, floodlights and smoothed out concrete shapes, but they have definitely stepped up security since I was last there.

Sunday School Lesson: Life After Shopping

January 7, 2009 by Rev Billy

The relief is that we now have a reunion with our long lost relative, the Fabulous Unknown.

Coney's Last Stand

January 1, 2009 by Savitri D

Rev and I are at Kennedy Airport, on our way to the Sonoran desert in search of some border wisdom. We spent the day at Coney Island in the bitter cold, the situation is grim but in typical scrappy Coney Island spirit everyone still had a great time.