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Occupy Wall Street protesters open on Broadway - New York

Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement take part in a protest march, and start ongoing free street shows called "Occupy...

by viewpress Vp in United States on 02/12/2011

The Reverend Billy and his 'Life After Shopping' Gospel choir from New York were busy in London today on their 2009 UK <em>Shopocalypse</em> Tour. I met them at Downing St, where they gave a brief performance, although unfortunately Gordon Brown wasn't at home. The police at this high security site, now hidden behind tall gates with armed guards, obviously didn't quite know how to handle the holy activists, and the officer who stopped the Reverend to question him failed to make much progress - other than being diagnosed by Billy as having a 'shopping problem.' The <em>Church of Life After Shopping</em> believes that we need to 'back away from the product' and resist the way that advertising and the media persuade us to live only thorough consuming corporate products, and get down to experiencing life directly. We can live more by consuming less - and at the same time help save the planet and put an end to climate change, which is a result of our excessive consumption. It's a message that comes from New York, and Americans consume far more than people in other countries, but the UK also has much higher levels of consumption than are sustainable in the future, particularly if we want (or are forced) to move towards a fairer sharing of resource usage between rich and majority worlds. Downing St was of course a key site at which to protest consumerism, which has been central to the expansion of our economy, but in many ways we now see to be a false God. As Billy says, following the G20 summit and the pathetic waste and greed shown in the continuing parliamentary allowances scandal, our government and MPs are clearly in need of the <em>Life After Shopping Gospel</em>. Amen indeed brother!

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Rev Billy comes to London

The Reverend Billy and his 'Life After Shopping' Gospel choir performed their anti-consumerism message around London, UK. 23/05/09.

by Peter Marshall in United Kingdom on 22/05/2009

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Occupy Wall Street protesters open on Broadway - New York

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by viewpress Vp, on 2nd of December 2011
Reverend Billy exorcizes BP at Tate Modern

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Reverend Billy exorcizes BP at Tate Modern

The Reverend Billy performed at Tate Modern today, urging an end to extraction of oil for the Tar Sands and of arts sponsorship by BP, which gives a company engaged in this most polluti...
by Peter Marshall, on 18th of July 2011
Reverend Billy preaches against Prop L in San Francisco

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Reverend Billy preaches against Prop L in San Francisco

Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping Choir preached and sang against Prop L which would allow police to arrest people for sitting on the sidewalk. San Francisco, USA. 2...
by Steve Rhodes, on 25th of October 2010
Rev Billy comes to London

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Rev Billy comes to London

The Reverend Billy and his 'Life After Shopping' Gospel choir performed their anti-consumerism message around London, UK. 23/05/09.
by Peter Marshall, on 22nd of May 2009

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