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In an attempt to save the final remaining uncommodified public spaces in New York City from corporations, theatre activist Bill Talen, aka Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, is running for mayor. “This may be a canvass upon which to dramatize the kinds of things we’ve talked to you about today,” Talen said [...]

Last year, it was a clever, creative warning of what was to come if we didn’t curb our over-consumptive ways.  This year, it seems like the prophecy of the Shopocaypse is coming true, if you follow international business news, anyways What Would Jesus Buy is a film that chronicles NYC theatre activist Reverend Billy and [...]