2008, the clock is ticking. Now, when American families momentarily break from the decades-long hypnosis of buying and debt, of toxic travel and the corporatizing of the unconscious. How do we whisper, Resist Consumerism!   Read More...

Support those independent shops! Change-a-lujah! Thanks to Brent at Beta Media Group for the clip!

Our friends Saving Iceland begin their month long action camp today. We wish them all the best in their effort to stop heavy industry in the wilds of Iceland. Down with heavy industry! Last year we were lucky to be there for about ten days fighting a master plan that could bring as many as thirty large dams and toxic aluminum smelters to Iceland over the next 15 years. I love these people. They have alot of local and international support but do experience a fair amount of resistance from some of their country people, which makes for hard going in a nation of just 300,000. Iceland is one of the most magical places I have ever been but even if it weren’t this struggle would be worthwhile. Not only is the aluminum industry destroying habitat all over the world they are wasting precious resources on aluminum production which is used primarily for weapons and military aircraft.

An intro from the Rev...
In our film "What Would Jesus Buy?" a key moment comes when Bill McKibben says into the camera:

"In a hundred years Americans will find another way to have fun besides shopping. My worry is that we won't have time to evolve these changes at the usual rate - by then we will derail the earth's systems, especially its climate."

Professor McKibben sees positives in the pain of the energy and food crises now hitting the west - what follows is a recent op-ed. In our church we believe that Americans are stopping their shopping now. The commercial media calls it a loss of consumer confidence - we call it Divine Revelation! Change-a-lujah!   Read More...

A headline in the papers said: Americans Stop Shopping. Can you believe this? It goes on to say: Discretionary retail spending is down six quarters in a row, big boxes in receivership, independent shops springing up...   Read More...

Why do I shout? Why do I preach? I’m looking out at you and there are hundreds of you and thousands you and why do I shout?   Read More...

600 Starbucks Close - the headline today. Well, now I have 600 fewer Starbucks that I'm banned from anyway...   Read More...

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

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

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!