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A Note On Starbucks Closures
600 Starbucks Close - the headline today. Well, now I have 600 fewer Starbucks that I'm banned from anyway...
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PUSHBACK Picnic: Success!
We celebrated our public park and RECLAIMED some green space from USP co-chair Danny Meyer
Photo by Chr15Eaton
Seen here: Spirit-possessed trees and sod lead the Reverend, Choir and Community Improvement District to the threshold of Danny Meyer's Union Square Cafe for some PARKLAND RECLAMATION. Park-a-lujah! Mr. Meyer's trying to shoe-horn an upscale restaurant into the Union Square Pavilion but we're PUSHING BACK the privatizers!
Thanks to everyone who came out. See you every Wednesday, 5pm on the North Side of Union Square Park! More updates at www.unionsquarenotforsale.org
Scenes From The Coney Island Scoping Circus
 Photo by Gothamdigitology  Photo by Pablo57 Thanks to the Coney Island lovers who came to the June 24 Scoping Meeting and cheered, cajoled, whooped, testified and sang to SAVE CONEY ISLAND! Bring back the Community's Plan! If you couldn't attend the meeting submit your comments in writing, via postal or electronic mail to: New York City Economic Development Corporation Attention: Rachel Belsky, Vice-President 110 William Street New York, New York 10038 rbelsky(at)nycedc.com Ongoing developments will be posted here and at ConeyIsland.com
Report From The Mermaid Parade
Photo by Sister Barbara
Up above the famous freak museum in Coney Island. It's Mermaid Parade day &mdash and Savitri and I are exhausted after our day-long role as King Neptune and Queen Mermaid of a 100,000 person swoon in Coney. 10:00 PM now, the miles of laughing families swept up on the Wonder Wheel and naked swimmers down in the surf with the Hungry March Band and the pounding sexual after-glow of the fantastic day-long parade...the night goes on all around the "Sideshow By The Seashore," home stage for Serpentina, Donny Vomit, the Black Scorpion... We're in the upstairs office, tended to by Francisco, and Shopi from Iceland (doing Savitri's hair &mdash which came to look like a bit of boreal forest) and Barbara Lee, Goddessa the Mad Bitch of the Sea.
Savitri's hunger strike has begun. Last night at the Mermaid Ball we asked a thousand people to "answer the call" &mdash come to Lincoln High School near the end of the Coney Island subway line, 2800 Ocean Boulevard, this Tuesday at 6 PM &mdash a meeting that could Save Coney Island from the advance of shopping and 30 story high hotels...The Devil!
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SAVE FREE SPEECH-ALLUJAH! STOP SHOPPING, BLOG-ALLUJAH!  Pushback!.mp3 Stop Shopping.mp3 
dramatic rituals and plays inside retail environments
 Our movie: Produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade, this docu-comedy follows our trials and triumphs across the country as we preach and sing to help holiday-abused Americans find a new Christmas without products. The DVD hits the street on May 20, but you can place your order now and take $5.00 off the price! We're happy to announce our DVD packaging contains NO PLASTIC and most of the container is made of post-consumer recycled paper. This film has played throughout the US, bringing Fair Trade activists and Evangelical Christians together in darkened movie theaters, emerging with new tools to BUY LESS and GIVE MORE! 
Fri, July 4 @ 12:00 PM : : July 4th wtih Norman Siegel
: : Central Park, New York, NY
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Wed, July 9 @ 5:00 PM : : First Amend-a-thon!
: : Northwest Corner Of Union Square, New York, NY
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THANK YOU! This is the best thing I have seen on TV- Nightline.
Under the pressure to buy for friends and growing extended family, I declared this year that my present to everyone and myself is for me to afford my last semester of college and finally graduate after ten years of financial floundering. If I had the NEED and the money to buy the gifts I would receive- I probaly would have bought them myself. THANK YOU!!!! I will make it a point to see your movie. I think the message is important. -Bonnie  Recently published in the US: The Reverend's sermons, the Stop Shopping choir's lyrics, sobering laments and holy jokes, a large sample of retail interventions and "Letter from the Disneyland Jail." The most coveted review comes from Kurt Vonnegut, a Saint in our church: "Rev and his choir now enrapture large audiences...with sermons such as those in this collection...to which ... Jesus Himself would have said, 'Amen.'" Click here to order from Powell's, a union bookstore.   The CD/DVD :: Dear Faithful — Our CD/DVD can be acquired by mailing us here in New York City at the following address. Please enclose a check made payable to The Immediate Life for $15 and we will mail you the 8 songs, 6 sermons, the picture book and the 16 minute "Preacher Feature," the short movie that won a jury award at Sundance. We would like to hear your responses to our songs and words. — Rev Mail to: The Immediate Life c/o Church of Stop Shopping Post Office #1556 Canal Street Station New York City, NY 10013 The Book :: Reverend Billy's basically honest stories about Hell's Kitchen, Times Square, The Poe House , Disneyfication, Guiliani and 9/11. Click to get it... |
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