A few years ago, GDI showed a film in conjunction with Reverend Billy's visit. Few who were there will forget Billy and the choir's improv jam of the first amendment and a chant/song "Mu-sic, sex, and polit-ical ac-tion..."

As we watch our own public spaces being fenced off, resistance to privitization being brutally squelched, and our little sleepy beach town controlled by the interests of business and corporate university, we present a very different vision.

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*Reverend Billy
and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir*
*Tuesday September 30th, 8pm*
*Quaker Meeting House*
*225 Rooney St*
*(Near Morrisey and Hwy 1)*

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir believe that Consumerism is overwhelming our lives. The corporations want us to have experiences only through their products. Our neighborhoods, "commons" places like stoops and parks and streets and libraries, are disappearing into the corporatized world of big boxes and chain stores.

But if we "back away from the product" - even a little bit, well then we Put The Odd Back In God! The supermodels fly away and we're left with our original sensuality. So we are singing and preaching for local economies and real - not mediated through products -- experience. We like independent shops where you know the person behind the counter or at least - you like them enough to share a story.We ask that local activists who are defending themselves against supermalls, nuke plants, gentrification -- call us and we'll come and put on our "Fabulous Worship!" Remember children... Love is a Gift Economy! — The Rev

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