Meet REVEREND BILLY
Shopping? We're spoiled for choice. We have enough, and we buy too much. When we feel down, we just go out for a bit of 'retail therapy'. When we get home, and the buzz wears off, we start worrying about where we're going to put all the stuff we've bought. How about trying something really therapeutic instead: Stop Shopping.
Reverend Billy is the Arch-Priest of the Stop Shopping movement. He organsies actions which are fun and imaginative. His particular targets are Starbucks and WalMart.
...and stop shopping
Take Action
Join the Church of Stop Shopping. Shop less and shop local. Reuse and recycle whatever you can.
Perform the Stop Shopping play at your local Starbucks. You will need two lead actors and a supporting cast. Are you courageous or foolhardy enough to be one of the lead actors?
Download the script from www.revbilly.com
Where $Bucks Prison Laborers Get Their Buzz...
Two lead actors walk in together and start the action at the shelves near the cash register, which should be central, like a stage. Support actors walk in with them to distribute literature when the play is climaxing.
Ex-prisoner: Oh gosh look at this place.
Friend: It's just a Starbucks.
Ex- prisoner: Well it beats the penitentiary cafeteria, I'll tell you.
Friend: Yeah it's a beautiful coffee shop, everything is real? arty.
Ex-prisoner: That's the thing about prison. They don't let graphic designers in there.
Friend: Well, prison is supposed to be depressing.
Ex-prisoner: Just look at those packages over there, everything looks so? wait a minute.
Friend: What?
...to find out what happens, download the full script from www.revbilly.com
Buying nothing at Wal-Mart
Twenty of us walked into Wal-Mart - the largest retail company in the world. We each took a shopping cart and walked silently and slowly in an unbroken line up and down, down and over, pushing our empty carts through endless canyons of products. Sometimes the line got split up, by a real shopper, or a curious child, or a near convert; but the line always reformed, rejoined, moving randomly, inexorably toward what? Toward the sex of our church picnic, toward the mouth frothing, eye rolling, religious fervour of sheer notshopping...
...The cop finally approached us - and we were tentative with our entreaties. "The Church Officer, The Church, The Church of Stop Shopping." He came to understand that we had simply and lawfully worshipped in a Wal-Mart. Maybe we were Odd. Maybe we put the Odd in our God! But he understood we were just celebrating buylessness...
...We heard him murmur something to himself. Then a pause, silence, he looked across the street to the big box no man's land and said "Well our founding fathers did say that every healthy democracy needs a little revolution once in a while". Revolution? Who said anything about a revolution? Let's just Stop Shopping! Amen.
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Reverend Billy is the Arch-Priest of the Stop Shopping movement. His particular targets are Starbucks and WalMart. He calls his movement the Church of Stop Shopping. Visit his website for fun and ideas: www.revbilly.com
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Join the Church of Stop Shopping. Meet Reverend Billy and enjoy a religion with a difference. Go to www.revbilly.com
...Who said anything about a revolution? Let's just Stop Shopping! Amen.
