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Excitedly Stopping Our Shopping
A note to international faithful coming to our site:
The United States is changing. Many of us are actually -- stopping our shopping! The commercial press calls it “fear” or “loss of confidence,” – but we get emails every day from excited Americans who ride bicycles now, boycot big boxes and chains, and consciously limit their waste.
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Calling 1st Amendment Holy Warriors
A New Series of Free Speech Essays
Photo by Betty Blade
The First Amendment keeps out Consumerism, which is the god-monarchy of our day. We are protected from Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart and Blackwater USA by the Constitution, which guarantees all Americans a logo-free, native culture. We are surrounded by the force field of the amendment. Corporate marketing is unable to penetrate it. When we walk into the protective enclosure of the amendment, we enter into its anti-fundamentalist faith, which assures us that people left to their own dreams and needs – will make a good life.
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Rebate Revival!
Has your tax rebate check arrived? Keep it out of the Big Debt and Big Boxes
Americans Stop Shopping!!!
Photo by Tracey Luszcz
The New York Times lead story a couple days ago:
Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies "The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are unleashing a widening wave of bankruptcies in American retailing, prompting thousands of store closings that are expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country." Our headline? AMERICANS STOP SHOPPING! Read More...
See national
and international news articles, audio,
video and film featuring Reverend
Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
Also find media by us.
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 Free Speech Streamers at Union Square  Pushback!.mp3 Stop Shopping.mp3 
dramatic rituals and plays inside retail environments
 Our movie: Produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade, this docu-comedy follows our trials and triumphs across the country as we preach and sing to help holiday-abused Americans find a new Christmas without products. The DVD hits the street on May 20, but you can place your order now and take $5.00 off the price! We're happy to announce our DVD packaging contains NO PLASTIC and most of the container is made of post-consumer recycled paper. This film has played throughout the US, bringing Fair Trade activists and Evangelical Christians together in darkened movie theaters, emerging with new tools to BUY LESS and GIVE MORE!
 
STOP SHOPPING, BLOG-ALLUJAH! 
Tue, May 20 : : WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? DVD Hits The Streets
: : New York, NY
: : more 
Sun, June 1 @ 2:00 PM : : Highline Revival and What Would Jesus Buy? DVD Celebration
: : Highline Ballroom, New York, NY
: : more
Go to complete events listing
Come into the Rev's Confession Booth we are all sinners, we are all forgiven 
I am a grad student, working and commuting by bike and bus to school and work as much as possible. Since I am often out of the house for up to fifteen hours a day, I am forced to participate in consumer culture, eating fast food and not being able to do the healthy thing. What can I do to minimize my contribution to the megacorporations? I can only carry so much in my pack, besides books and work clothes. -Mago
 Recently published in the US: The Reverend's sermons, the Stop Shopping choir's lyrics, sobering laments and holy jokes, a large sample of retail interventions and "Letter from the Disneyland Jail." The most coveted review comes from Kurt Vonnegut, a Saint in our church: "Rev and his choir now enrapture large audiences...with sermons such as those in this collection...to which ... Jesus Himself would have said, 'Amen.'" Click here to order from Powell's, a union bookstore.   The CD/DVD :: Dear Faithful — Our CD/DVD can be acquired by mailing us here in New York City at the following address. Please enclose a check made payable to The Immediate Life for $15 and we will mail you the 8 songs, 6 sermons, the picture book and the 16 minute "Preacher Feature," the short movie that won a jury award at Sundance. We would like to hear your responses to our songs and words. — Rev Mail to: The Immediate Life c/o Church of Stop Shopping Post Office #1556 Canal Street Station New York City, NY 10013 The Book :: Reverend Billy's basically honest stories about Hell's Kitchen, Times Square, The Poe House , Disneyfication, Guiliani and 9/11. Click to get it... |
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