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Hallelujah and Amen, America’s stopped shopping.
At least, according to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, the troupe of radical performance artists who tour the country in the guise of outlandish Holy Rollers to confuse mall security guards and confound police as they sing and pray outside of mega-malls, asking shoppers to put away their credit cards. Does that mean that comic preacher Reverend Billy and the newly renamed Church of Life After Shopping have won their battle against the Wal-Marts, Starbucks and crazed consumerism that have so many burdened with so much debt?
Maybe.
According to Reverend Billy, there’s a great chance for change. He says, "Wall Street crashed, Obama rises, there’s lots of change in the air, people’s hearts are open."
It does beg the question: If we’d all listened to the right reverend, would America be in the credit crisis it’s in today?
wowOwow’s Etceterist Billy Norwich, a social and cultural commenter and a known fashionista himself, sat down last week with NYC ’s Green Party mayoral candidate, Reverend Billy, and his wife, Savitri D, to talk about the New Economy and the role of the Church of Life After Shopping in it. Then we followed Reverend Billy to his March 8 fabulous worship performance at the Highline Ballroom in NYC . Here are the highlights/
