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Climate Change town crier and leader of the Church of Stop Shopping, Reverend Billy, describes the enormity of Sandy’s death and destruction in New York neighborhoods. He also explains that the global warming tipping point has already been reached, and that NOW is the time for radical change.
We are submitting to the mug shots of an activist photographer. We are confessing to crimes against big banks IN ADVANCE, so there is a pre-criminal condition that we all share. First, we feel the humiliation of the mug-shot, feeling the gaze of the security state, en route to the retinal shot and the strip search, the scramble to be represented legally, to be heard, to be free again — but then free to do what?
This Saturday thousands of people around the country are transferring their money from large corporate banks, into small financial institutions, community-oriented cooperatives and credit unions. We’ve been doing this for some time, check out our own Dragonfly’s amazing stealth video during our successful campaign against JP Morgan Chase and their financing of Mountaintop Removal.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet, and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond. The conversation, held at the renowned Midtown performance space The Tank on November 15, will be hosted by Killing the Buddha.
Obama compared Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party, and then called one right and the other left. He doesn’t get it. Naomi Klein said the Occupy Wall Street is not a place — that it is a state of mind. She gets it.
Anti-Consumerist Preacher Reverend Billy Talen serves up a fiery sermon against the global economic machine at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration in downtown Manhattan.
Reverend Billy connects occupying banks and #OccupyWallStreet
Share This: On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Reverend asks “What happened to peace?” On that impossible day when the skyline of New York City collapsed on its southern tip – I watched from a rooftop across the East River – we entered an unexpectedly peaceful eye of the storm. We all fell toward [...]
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture – all wrapped into one big institution – that is simple common sense!
Exorcism: the act of driving out a dark spirit that has possessed a person or a place, by commanding it to leave in the name of a more powerful power – in our case the life of the Earth.
