What Would Jesus Buy?

What Would Jesus Buy?

A fantastic film from Reverend Billy who heads up the Church of Stop Shopping. It will be in Tucson at the Loft on December 7th. At the Loft. Be there or be square.

The Loft Cinema
3233 E Speedway Blvd, Tuscon AZ 885716
520-795-7777

Organize a trip to see it with friends. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder how our society ever became so ill with consumerism. Sacrilegious? Yep. On target. Yep. A must see? Absolutely.

From The Loft’s Website:

Official Website View Trailer WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? – Opens December 7th 90 mins, Rated NR “A fast and funny documentary … might make a viewer think twice about that next purchase at The Gap.” – Laura Kern, THE NEW YORK TIMES Brace yourself for the onslaught of the holiday season “shopacalypse” with this hilariously insightful new documentary from executive producer Morgan Spurlock (Super-Size Me), starring the one-and-only Reverend Billy and the members of his Church of Stop Shopping! The film follows the white-suited, big-haired Rev. Billy and his 35-member choir as they hit the road in two biodiesel-fueled buses in December 2005, on a guerrilla U.S. tour against rampant consumerism! They invade shopping malls, megastores and Starbucks coffee shops with a message preached in mock-religious fervor that there is evil – a looming “shopocalypse” – at the heart of U.S. consumer culture. Rev. Billy tries to “exorcise” discount chain Wal-Mart’s home office in Arkansas. He is arrested in Disneyland on Christmas Day after marching with his red-robed choir and denouncing the Walt Disney Corp. for outsourcing merchandise production. In an outlet of lingerie shop Victoria’s Secret, known for its blizzard of catalog promotions, Rev. Billy exhorts, “O Victoria, we know your secret – we don’t need a million catalogs a day to have our sexual fantasies.” As the holiday shopping season grows ever-longer, and the malls become ever-more aggressive with their siren call of consumption, Reverend Billy is on a mission to reveal the dangers of holiday over-spending, and help heal the shopping-scarred souls of a cashed-out population. Filled with biting satire, wacky humor, revealing interviews with psychiatrists, politicians, kids and their exasperated parents, and the gale-force charisma of Rev. Billy himself, this is the perfect holiday film for anyone who’s “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!”

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Rev. Billy joined CODEPINK in the hallowed halls of Congress for “Don’t Buy Bush’s War” actions this past spring. Can you say, “Peacealujah!! my friends?

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