Press Archive

The Stop Shopping Gospel RISES UP from the streets into the mediasphere! Here's a selection from our press archives
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Noviembre 27, 2012   |   The Huffington Post
Reverend Billy Talen, founder of the Church of Stop Shopping was on HuffPost Live Monday to tell host Abby Huntsman his war stories of preaching on the front lines of a Black Friday Macy's.
Noviembre 25, 2012   |   CNN
Reverend Billy, founder of the Church of Stop Shopping, says rampant consumerism is destroying the environment.
Noviembre 23, 2012   |   MSNBC
Billy ‘Rev. Billy’ Talen protests American consumerism in a series of performances across the country.
Noviembre 21, 2012   |   The New York Times
From the first days of this blog in 2007, a focal point has been the word “enough.” How much is enough? Can we learn to reach for an apple when we crave a cookie? Can we make something instead of buying something? Which good life do you seek — the Vegas version or Plato’s?
Noviembre 20, 2012   |   TreeHugger
The Reverend Billy Talen, famed activist preacher and inexhaustible performance artist, is a noble and inscrutable man.
Julio 2, 2012   |   Waging Nonviolence
 Reverend Billy Talen and the Church fo Stop Shopping host a church revival at the unexpected Highline Ballroom
Junio 29, 2012   |   The L Magazine
The Reverend Billy and his wonderful rabble-rousing choir return to the Highline Ballroom this Sunday, to raise awareness about the Spectra Pipeline, a gas-delivery system with its sights on Manhattan. Go. Have fun, learn, dance out your anger... 
Junio 27, 2012   |   The Villager
 Church of Stop Shopping to Protest Pipeline
Junio 27, 2012   |   Chelsea Now
Frack Off! Says Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir joined by local activists 
Agosto 5, 2011   |   RKA in LA
 A review of our Earthalujah performances in Chiapas, Mexico.
Julio 25, 2011   |   Waging Nonviolence
 The Tate Modern in London—the most-visited art gallery in the world—got a new addition to its collection last week..."
Julio 20, 2011   |   New Internationalist blog
New Internationalist's take on our exorcism of BP at Tate Mordern 
Julio 19, 2011   |   The Guardian Environment Blog
 The UK Guardian's Environment Blog covers our action at Tate Modern
Julio 18, 2011   |   Zahid Raja: A Student Activist's Diary
Blogger Zahid Raja writes about our exorcism of Royal Bank of Scotland durong our 2011 European tour
Julio 18, 2011   |   Uk Tar Sands Network
American performance group and British artists, activists and art lovers congregate in call for gallery to end its relationship with oil company
Julio 18, 2011   |   Demotix
 The home of 'Street Journalism' writes on our exorcism of London's Tate Modern
Julio 18, 2011   |   London Confidential
The American performance artist takes on Big Oil at the Tate Modern
 
Julio 18, 2011   |   Art For A Change
Activist and artist Mark Vallen blogs on our Tate Modern exorcism
Julio 17, 2011   |   EXTRA! EXTRA!
A review of our worship-show at Conway Hall in London 
Julio 16, 2011   |   Fringe Review
 A review of our performance at Latitude 2011 in the UK, part of the worldwide Fringe Festival