Reverend Billy

Occupy Broadway 'Takes Back The Stage'

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 12.03.2011

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Occupy Wall Street descended upon Broadway Friday night, commencing a daylong occupation of Times Square. The move to New York's theater district is m...

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Occupy The Pulpit

Mark Engler | Posted 01.28.2012

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Mark Engler

We shouldn't need an ironic borrowing of church mannerisms in order to hear a sermon against corporate greed. After all, why should railing against the evils of consumerism have to be done as a half-in-jest parody by a fake preacher?

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Earth Preaching

Reverend Billy | Posted 10.19.2011

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Reverend Billy

Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture -- all wrapped into one big institution -- that is simple common sense!  When we...

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Apocalypse Not Now: Seeking a New Beginning ... before the End

Randall Amster | Posted 11.17.2011

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Randall Amster

Undertaking even a cursory review of the news queue evidences the apocalyptic overtones in our collective midst. In the most recent additions to the c...

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Who's Singing These Songs With Us?

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

This notion in Christmas carols that Spirit is in all things, and that hills and clouds and stars can change the fortunes of all of us -- do we still sense this?

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Killing To Shop

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

More and more of us have a sense of the violence of the corporate Christmas, whether the collateral damage is in the sweatshop or in the defenseless home with parents and grandparents and children inside.

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The Newest City

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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For millennia, we human beings lived in walled cities. That was where the power was. We were safe and warm inside the walls that kept the dark chaos of nature -- out.

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Flavorpill NYC's Weekend To-Do List

Posted 05.25.2011

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Flavorpill NYC has picked the best of the weekend's calendar so you don't have to. For the rest of Flavorpill's picks of arts and culture this weeke...

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Avatar and the Commons

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

John Wayne's shoot-em-ups helped the American public learn to handle imperial war. Avatar is an inverted western.

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A Good Mayor

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

The earth is the government. Nine million of us are the government. We are a good mayor.

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WATCH: Rev. Billy Heckles Bloomberg, Escorted Out Of Debate

Posted 05.25.2011

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The first debate for the New York City mayoral election got off to a rocky start last night when Mayor Bloomberg's opening statement was interrupted b...

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Harlem -- Night Before The Primary

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

Corruption has taken a sophisticated form. It has been enlarged from the usual millions under the table, unchanged since Tammany Hall and beyond, to the modern era of marketing.

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Getting Good Mileage from the GM Takeover Plan

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Randall Amster

Wouldn't it be fun to be lounging on crushed velvet seats in a little red Corvette -- um, I mean Prius -- instead of always being in the SUV breakdown lane spewing fumes during rush hour?

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The Solstice and the Stable

Reverend Billy | Posted 11.17.2011

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Christmas is the celebration of a birth--and so it celebrates a death, too. The heat and the light increase in each 24-hour period, and this day in wh...

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Christmas Revolution!

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

Our images of happiness are becoming self-made again, coming from within our loving relationships. Our dreams, memories and our imaginations are still independent from the market.

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If It's Friday, It's Meet the Bloggers

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kerry Trueman

Meet The Bloggers brings us the Rev and the righteous Savitri D from the Church of Stop Shopping, along with tips from the Center For A New American Dream's LaToya Peterson on how to simplify the holidays.

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Shopacoplypse Now

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Kerry Trueman

I've tried to put myself in the shoes of the Long Island lemmings who stomped the life out of Jdimytai "Jimbo" Damour... but I just can't seem to fit into their frenzied footwear.

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Phony Christians Embrace Bull

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kerry Trueman

(Image courtesy of Wonkette) It's not even Halloween yet, but a bunch of folks masquerading as Christians descended on Wall Street the other day to...

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