On Tuesday, April 8th, a hilarious and wrenching documentary
film, "What Would Jesus Buy?" will be shown at 7:30 p.m., in Goldwin
Smith 142, Cornell University
Directed by Morgan Spurlock ("Supersize Me"), the film
follows Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Choir as they preach the
message of the Church of Stop Shopping: "Resist chain mall
monoculture!!"
REVEREND BILLY PREACHES "LOCALISM GOSPEL"
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, a performance troupe
promoting "radical localism" rather than corporately-owned chain
stores, are coming to Ithaca the weekend of April 19th and 20th.
They are exuberant activists engaged in campaigns to reclaim
community through beating back the urge to consume those sweatshop
products and through fighting the corporate takeover of our space and
minds.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 19th, the troupe will perform in Anabel
Taylor Chapel, Cornell University.
At noon, Sunday the 20th, they will appear at the Aurora Street
pavilion of the Ithaca Commons to celebrate locally-owned businesses.
Events sponsored by Cornell Students Against Sweatshops, the Cornell
Organization for Labor Action, and the Student Assembly Finance
Committee. Sunday appearance sponsored by the Social Justice
Committee of the Ithaca Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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