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Guest: Reverend Billy Talen, Pastor, The Church of Stop ShoppingOn YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/user/reverendbillytalenOn Instagram | https://Instagram.com/revbillytalenOn Facebook | https://Facebook.com/revbillyWebsite | https://revbilly.com/_____________________________Host: Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast & Audio Signals PodcastOn ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli_____________________________This Episode's SponsorsAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?
First, we go to CUNY, the City University of New York. For the past months it's been a flashpoint in the battle over campus free speech during a time of war. At Hunter College on the Upper East Side, the campus has been roiled by the administration's flip-flopping on whether they will allow a film that's critical of Israel to be shown. And at Baruch College in Lower Manhattan, top officials there canceled a teach-in on Gaza by members of that school's history department. We are joined by Tami Gold, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, Johanna Fernandez, Professor of History at Baruch College and author of The Young Lords: A Radical History and Safa Khan, a student at Baruch College. Then, this week, diplomats, world leaders and a small army of fossil fuel industry lobbyists have gathered in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, for the 28th annual U.N. climate summit. There's no sign that progress will be made on reaching new agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize soaring global temperatures. We are joined by Tefa Galvis, a member of the eco-socialist working group of the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Last year, the eco-socialists were a key part of a coalition of groups that persuaded the New York state legislature to pass the revolutionary Build Public Renewables Act. Lastly we speak with Savitri D. and Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, a good friends of The Indy that are always on the cutting edge of social movements.
Amid Israel's war on Gaza and COP 23, we speak with Savitri D. and Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, a good friends of The Indy that are always on the cutting edge of social movements.
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Our theme of exploration for this episode is etiquette for outlaws. Wendy and I spoke actor and activist Reverend Billy Talen who is founder of the Church of Stop Shopping, and then to criminal defense attorney, musician and Satanist, Stu De Haan, who provides legal representation for The Satanic Temple. Our staff scientist Mina Lebitz tells us about a few outlaw scientist, who helped usher in modernity and challenged the status quo, Alice Wyatt tells us about her experience puppy sitting, and finally, we hear from our Innernaut who explains why we are all in purgatory. This is going to be our LAST EPISODE of Nameless, Evolution Begins Within, we are changing direction and will be re launching the podcast this fall under the name The Innernaut Reports with a book to follow entitled "Dreaming Into Knowing" both will drop in the fall of 2023, We will have a shorter format, still focusing on 1 topic although we will be more dream forward as we dive deep into gnosis, asking who we are, why were here and how can we use dreams as our personal guide to all that is meant for us.
First, we commemorate Michael Lardner, founder and driving force behind the Marxist Education Project who died last Wednesday at 68. He hailed from a family of Michigan autoworkers and came to New York as a young man to work on the grapes boycott called by the United Farm Workers. In that same era, he helped found the New York Marxist School which became the Brecht Forum. When the Brecht Forum closed down in 2014, Michael stepped into a moment of great sadness and disappointment and launched the Marxist Education Project. We look at the ongoing struggle to unionize workers at starbucks franchises across the US. Starbucks Workers at 316 stores in 36 states have filed to unionize despite starbucks' aggressive anti-union campaign. So far, 201 Starbucks stores in 32 states have won union elections. Just 40 stores have lost an election. In retaliation, Starbucks has been union-busting. Among other tactics, they have fired worker-organizers and sometimes even closed down stores. Austin Locke, a key starbucks organizer, was fired from starbucks on July 5 just five days after his store on Starbucks at Ditmars Blvd and 31st Street in the Astoria, Queens won their union election 7-4. He speaks with us about his experience and updates us on the union fight. Advocates for the Build Public Renewables Act get another chance to make their case tomorrow. On Thursdays New York State Assembly will host an unprecedented mid-summer hearing on the BRPA. If passed and signed into law, the bill would greatly expand New York's public power system and the state's use of renewable energy sources. To discuss this, we speak with Sarahana Shrestha. She recently knocked off a 13-term State Assemblymember in her Hudson Valley district while running on the promise to fight for public power. Finally, we get a much-needed sermon from Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping about their new “Earth Church” in a former bank building on the Lower East Side. Billy insists if we're going to survive the climate crisis, we will need soon need an Earth-centered cultural revolution.
We get a needed sermon from Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping about their new “Earth Church” in a former bank building on the Lower East Side. Billy insists if we're going to survive the climate crisis, we will need soon need an Earth-centered cultural revolution.
"EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity's most urgent issue - the planet's sixth extinction."In this episode of MetaPod, Wendy talks to radical performance artists Reverend Billy Talen and Savitri D about the EARTH RIOT podcast and their activism. The pair are known in New York City for their art combining performance and protest to raise issues about capitalism, corporate greed, consumerism, the environment and other social issues. Reverend Billy and Savitri D are the founders and fire behind the community of performance artists/activists known as The Church of Stop Shopping, which includes the Stop Shopping Choir. The community is active in New York City and there is also a Stop Shopping Choir based in London.EARTH RIOT with Reverend Billy and Savitri D is a podcast and radio programme that offers an entertaining and imaginative mash-up of environmental news and thought starters delivered with music, song and conviction. As Reverend Billy is fond of proclaiming, "Earthaleujah!"Show notes:The Earth Cancels the Environmental Movement (EARTH RIOT ep. 4)The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertBankTrackVeteran anti-consumerist crusader Reverend Billy takes aim at climate change (NPR, November 26, 2021)
Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping talks about NYC parks and the fight for the planet. He was part of a failed effort in 2015 to get Monsanto's Roundup pesticide out of the NYC parks system. Billy also just came back from Minnesota where there's a huge battle led by indigenous people over a tar-sands pipeline, the "new Standing Rock," he says.
—We look at the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. Two long-time peace activists Kathy Kelly and Medea Benjamin talk about the latest from Afghanistan, why the U.S.-backed regime collapsed so quickly and what the future may hold. Kathy Kelly is the co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She visited Afghanistan many times over the past decade and worked with peace activists there. Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Code Pink Women for Peace. She also visited Afghanistan a number of times during the U.S. occupation. —Marika Plater has extensively studied and written about the NYC public park system. She is the lead source in The Indypendent's August cover story, 'Parks for the People.' We look at the history of the class struggle around NYC parks. —Reverend Billy Talen talks more about parks and the fight for the planet. He was part of a failed effort in 2015 to get Monsanto's Roundup pesticide out of the NYC parks system. Billy also just came back from Minnesota where there's a huge battle led by indigenous people over a tar-sands pipeline, the "new Standing Rock," he says.
John Tarleton and Olivia Riggio interview Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, a New York City based performance art and gospel choir troupe. Talen commemorates Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary Beatnik poet and publisher, died at his home in San Francisco on February 24th at the age of 101.
John Tarleton, the Editor-in-Chief of the Indypendent newspaper is joined by Olivia Riggio in interviewing: —Jack Gross and James Innis of New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They talk about a broad statewide coalition of progressive groups that is backing the Invest in Our New York Act, which would raise $50 billion in new taxes from the wealthy. The DSA is one member of that coalition and they are doing grassroots canvassing in NYC to expand the campaign. —Vivia Morgan, a licensed real estate agent, a community board member, and candidate for New York City Council for the nearby 40th district. Vivia started Change.org petition to protect the Associated Supermarket has been evicted and has been given 90 days to vacate. A luxury apartment building would replace the neighborhood supermarket in Crown Heights, leaving a food desert in its place. —Erin McNeill, the founder and president of Media Literacy Now, talks about Cook v. Raimondo. In 2018, a group of students and parents on their behalf filed a class-action lawsuit, Cook v. Raimondo against state officials, namely Governor Gina Raimondo. The Rhode Island suit accuses the state of not providing children with sufficient education to prepare them to participate in democracy, therefore violating the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause. —Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, a New York City based performance art and gospel choir troupe. Talen commemorates Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary Beatnik poet and publisher, died at his home in San Francisco on February 24th at the age of 101.
Happy Friday! After the headline news, you'll hear an interview of Radical performers Reverend Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping. They blend activism, music, and humor to trace the connections between consumerist culture, climate crisis, and the coming "shopacalypse."
John Tarleton talks with Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping about his upcoming column in The Indypendent on New York's reopening. The Reverend celebrates his 70th birthday. Read the column here: https://indypendent.org/2020/05/time-to-reopen-the-economy/
This is the May 25th segment of WBAI Evening News by The Indypendent. On Memorial Day John Tarleton, the show's host and The Indypendent's Editor-in-Chief, interviews Iraqi War veteran Essam Attia about the state of the VA. He also speaks with Reverend Billy Talen, founder of the Church of Stop Shopping, about re-opening New York.
Justice Begins In The Imagination by Reverend Billy Talen by The Indypendent
Trump Depression Hotline by Reverend Billy Talen by The Indypendent
An Extinction Rebellion Christmas by Reverend Billy Talen by The Indypendent
Outtake: Reverend Billy Talen Says Goodbye to Indy Audio Producer Elia Gran by The Indypendent
Our advice columnist Reverend Billy on the recent student walk out You can find his article in the April issue of The Indypendent or on our website https://bit.ly/2vwfEw7 To support this podcast and our publication, it´s as easy as visiting our Patreon page and becoming a monthly subscriber. bit.ly/2xsDpRQ
Our advice columnist Reverend Billy on aiding immigrant neighbors targeted by ICE and being sexy, not sexist. Listen till the end to hear a conversation with the Reverend. You can find his article in the March issue of The Indypendent or on our website http://bit.ly/2oQp0Nn To support this podcast and our publication, it´s as easy as visiting our Patreon page and becoming a monthly subscriber. bit.ly/2xsDpRQ Music: Live Performance by the Stop Shopping Choir at Joe's Pub (NYC) on Thursday, November 30th 2017. Photo credit: Melvin Thomas.
everend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities on four continents defending community, life and imagination. Over the last 15 years of their "church," they describe the Devils that plague us as Consumerism and Militarism. In this time of the Earth's crisis - they are especially mindful of the extractive imperatives of global capital. Their activist performance and concert stage performance have always worked in parallel. The activism is content for the play. They have won an OBIE Award, the Alpert Award, The Dramalogue Award and The Historic Districts Council's Preservation Award (for leading demonstrations to save Manhattan's Poe House), and half of their singing activists have been jailed, most frequently during Occupy Wall Street. Reverend Billy has been arrested about 70 times. Reverend Billy and the SSC employ multiple strategies, including cash register exorcisms, retail interventions, and cell phone operas. Outdoors, they have performed in Redwood forests, between cars in traffic jams at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, on the Staten Island Ferry, at Burning Man and Times Square and Coney Island, and on the roof of Carnegie Hall in a snowstorm. The Stop Shopping Choir is a diverse array of economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds and has members from every continent except Antarctica, which they're working on. Among them are scientists, teachers, artists, therapists, welders, cyclists, builders, developers, hairdressers, dog walkers, actors, truck drivers, tech geeks, scholars and executives. The Choir has toured in Europe, Africa, South America and throughout North America. Here we discuss what drives the Reverend's tireless activism, the development of his persona and voice, and what it means to be an earth evangelist.
Listen in as ArtsCultureBeat talks with spitfire actor, writer, and producer Reverend Billy Talen of Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir and Choir member and activist Dragonfly (aka Miss Justice Jester). For nearly two decades, performance artist Reverend Billy has staged protests in the style of Evangelical sermons passionately agitating against wide-ranging sins such environmental exploitation, commercialism, and police brutality. He's been an NYC mayoral candidate, the subject of the documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?," and he's been arrested more than 70 times, most recently at a Black Lives Matter protest at Grand Central Terminal. He's joined by Dragonfly , longtime Choir member and activist, a leader in the Ferguson protests. Her hug of a Ferguson riot cop in front of the police station, which was a mutual hug, was seen by many millions, picked up by AP, "New Yorker." Now, just before the launch of Reverend Billy's “Faster, Monsanto! Die! Die!” world tour, Reverned Billy and Dragonfly talk to ArtsCultureBeat’s Vanessa Quirk and Yashica Dutt about activism, acting, and the blurry line between playing and becoming a character.
Listen in as ArtsCultureBeat talks with spitfire actor, writer, and producer Reverend Billy Talen of Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir and Choir member and activist Dragonfly (aka Miss Justice Jester). For nearly two decades, performance artist Reverend Billy has staged protests in the style of Evangelical sermons passionately agitating against wide-ranging sins such environmental exploitation, commercialism, and police brutality. He's been an NYC mayoral candidate, the subject of the documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?," and he's been arrested more than 70 times, most recently at a Black Lives Matter protest at Grand Central Terminal. He's joined by Dragonfly , longtime Choir member and activist, a leader in the Ferguson protests. Her hug of a Ferguson riot cop in front of the police station, which was a mutual hug, was seen by many millions, picked up by AP, "New Yorker." Now, just before the launch of Reverend Billy's “Faster, Monsanto! Die! Die!” world tour, Reverned Billy and Dragonfly talk to ArtsCultureBeat’s Vanessa Quirk and Yashica Dutt about activism, acting, and the blurry line between playing and becoming a character.