Coronavirus and COVID-19 Symptom Info (tags)
A summary of recent events, including a brief timeline of the Jeffrey Ghazarian progression, and how to clean up after going shopping.
Save the Amazon Demonstration (tags)
Glendale's Americana shopping mall was the site of a demonstration reminding consumers about consequences of shopping decisions and our culture of ignorance.
DIARY OF A CON MAN . 48 (tags)
the anne frank diary hoax
DIARY OF A CON MAN . 45 (tags)
the anne frank hoax
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion (tags)
The market accepts and rejects like a Calvinist God. The market only promises itself. Its highest good is the economic boom. The market theocracy makes this side into something otherworldly. The cult of money and the commodity eclipses all its predecessors.
March For Bernie 2, Pasadena and Los Angeles (tags)
Went to this event, and took a few photos.
Onyx Friday: a black friday alternative (tags)
Onyx Friday: a black friday alternative Friday, November 23rd, 2012 Starts at 8am (PST)! Get your holiday shopping done at home AND support fine artists and craftspeople all over the country.
Online jewelry shopping on www.aypearl.com (tags)
Shopping online is a fast developing business, and it is far easier to look for any kinds of jewelry on the Internet than to go on shopping the classic way which is rather boring and exhausting. Besides, shops closed every, but online shopping is available at 24/7.
Community Centers: Learning from O Canada! (tags)
The mosaic works in Vancouver, B. C. Community centers provide a buffer and cushion from the brutal and commodifying market. In happier days before Reagan and market fundamentalism, the Carnegie Center was bursting with activity, counseling, classes and circles.
"What Would Jesus Buy?" (review) (tags)
What Would Jesus Buy not only documents Reverend Billy’s street theater activism as he crosses the country, but it also features interviews with shoppers, retail employees, Christmas historians, and authorities on human rights. Additionally, there is footage of sweatshop conditions in Bangladesh--making a compelling call, even for people already aware of the evils of consumerism, to at least cut down on buying for the holidays. And “if we were able to change Christmas, we would change the whole year,” says the Reverend.
The Gap and Black Friday (tags)
Building a New Global Movement The Observer's Dan McDougall described their garment shop as, "smeared with filth, corridors flooded with excrement from a flooded toilet." The workers recounted threats and beatings from management to keep their nimble fingers moving.
What Would Jesus Buy? a new film produced by Morgan Spurlock. The movie follows a Reverend and his choir's sojourn through the USA and how they deal with America's fascination with shopping.
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion (tags)
Money replaces God and has become our new religion, a universal totalitarian religion that never existed before.. Commodification of goods is more important than the goods themselves.
AFP gets P10-billion hardware shop list (tags)
THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be embarking on a spending spree with President Arroyo approving on Friday a P10-billion shopping list for military hardware. The President and concurrent defense secretary gave AFP brass the green light to bid out 14 contracts. Mrs. Arroyo also on Friday vowed to defeat communist and secessionist rebels in Mindanao before her term of office ends in 2010.
How George W. Bush has brough peace, freedom, and democracy to Iraq. (tags)
I was buying groceries in my beloved Amariya neighborhood in west Baghdad when I heard the sound of an AK-47 for about three seconds. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping. How Iraq reporter's world has changed
The Beauty of the System (tags)
A tale of shipping, blackmail and slow death in the lost Cul de Sac
BUY NOTHING DAY SPECIAL SCREENING (tags)
-Celebrate Buy Nothing Day with two kick-ass, anti-capitalist sci-fi gems! -Enjoy this free screening under the stars at one of LA’s greatest treasures: The South Central Farm! -Avoid the shopping malls! Avoid your annoying family on the holidays!
Rev Billy to Fight Starbucks in LA Court (tags)
Reverend Billy, aka Bill Talen, will go to court against Starbucks as the coffee giant accuses him of destruction of property. The Reverend says Starbucks' profiteering off of labor and human rights abuse is the real crime.
why does Palestine MURDER women and children in schools, shopping centers and churches. (tags)
why does Palestine MURDER women and children in schools, shopping centers and churches.
CHANGELLUJAH! Comes to Cal State L. A. (tags)
Reverend Billy and ”The Church of Stop Shopping" Tour was in the Los Angles area last weekend. What transpired was performance activism both in theatre and on the streets.
CHANGELLUJAH! Comes to Starbucks (tags)
April 23, 2004 Reverend Billy and ”The Church of Stop Shopping" Tour was in the Los Angles area last weekend. What transpired was performance activism both in theatre and on the streets.
Rev Billy & Church of Stop Shopping 04/17-04/18 (tags)
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping begin their Stop Big Boxes Tour in Los Angeles, appearing at Laemmle's Fairfax 3 Theater 04/17 at 10pm and the State Playhouse 04/18 at 6pm. Email Michael@revbilly.com for details.
Drug Shoppers to be tracked by database (tags)
Rush Limbaugh isn't the only doctor shopper -- a Florida truck driver (political affiliation not given) was arrested for drug shopping in December. It's a problem so pervasive that the state legislature is considering a multi-million dollar prescription tracking database.
BTL:Rev. Billy Takes his Gospel of 'Stop Shopping' to Stores that... (tags)
...Sell Products Produced by Sweatshop Labor. Interview with the Rev. Billy, Church of Stop Shopping, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Building Bridges Radio - Rev. Billy & Stop Shopping & Military Families Speak Out (tags)
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 min radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INDYMEDIA LINK.
Another reportback from Von's. (tags)
Another reportback from Von's.
Whirl-Mart is a performance! It is art! It is a ritual! It is a “collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for shopping and buying...”
So the Iraq is an problem, France is a problem, Germany is a problem.
Proletarian Grocery Shopping in Ghent (tags)
Activists in Ghent (Belgium) go “proletarian grocery shopping.”
12.21 COLLABORATION CALL TO ACTION (tags)
Call to action for countrywide shopping mall protests on Winter Solstice, December 21, the last Saturday before Christmas
More (imp)Unity/Whose bloody axis of evil? (tags)
Shortly after 9/11, this advertising display went up outside Macy’s at Santa Monica Place mall, and stayed up for several months. I was never sure if they were using patriotism to sell men’s shirts and ties, or men’s shirts and ties to sell patriotism. Beneath the obvious and rather crude commercial message, I discerned a subtext, a kind of subliminal and perhaps subconscious story hidden behind the advertising burka. I’ve tried here to unveil that message.
Mexicans protesting proposed Costco face charges of rebellion, sabotage (tags)
Officials in the southern Mexico state of Morelos threw the book Friday at 28 protesters who briefly blocked roads around a site where U.S. retailer Costco plans to build a controversial shopping center, charging them with rebellion, sabotage, attack and causing injuries.
Who Will be Kidnapped Next? (tags)
With all the Southern Cali activists arrested lately, some questions come to mind. Who's next? What can we do to stop it?
Detailed Report on Sunday's Forever 21 Demo on Santa Monica Promenade (tags)
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) joined forces with local Garment Workers on Sunday Night in a spectacular demonstration on Santa Monica's third street promanade; specifically protesting exploitative textile manufacturer Forever 21, but also calling for an end to all economic injustice.
Human Barcode Tatoo Patent (tags)
Making your shopping experience easier America. Support the movement to replace the statue of liberty with a giant shopping cart!
call to : WHIRL-MART ANTISHOPPING !ART/ACTION?....JUNE 3! (tags)
On April 1, 2001, breathingplanet.net successfully activated its first action-performance, Whirl-Mart. It was a silent march winding through the aisles of Wal-Mart in Troy, NY, that was symbolic of the group's opposition to violent capitalist values. It was not necessarily a protest against Wal-Mart. Now breathingplanet.net is calling for simultaneous Whirl-Mart action-performances across the country and/or globe on Sunday June 3 and the first Sunday of every month following.
Stop Police Brutality March and Protest (tags)
I have, on video, a police officer inciting riot at today's rally.