[SustainableTompkins] Film Explores "What Would Jesus Buy?" Tuesday

[Margaret McCasland]

	On Tuesday, April 8th, a hilarious and wrenching documentary 
film, "What Would Jesus Buy?" will be  shown at 7:30 p.m., in Goldwin 
Smith 142, Cornell University
	Directed by Morgan Spurlock ("Supersize Me"), the film 
follows Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Choir as they preach the 
message of the Church of Stop Shopping: "Resist chain mall 
monoculture!!" 

	REVEREND BILLY PREACHES "LOCALISM GOSPEL"
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, a performance troupe 
promoting "radical localism" rather than corporately-owned chain 
stores, are coming to Ithaca the weekend of April 19th and 20th. 
They are exuberant activists engaged in campaigns to reclaim 
community through beating back the urge to consume those sweatshop 
products and through fighting the corporate takeover of our space and 
minds.

At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 19th, the troupe will perform in Anabel 
Taylor Chapel, Cornell University.

At noon, Sunday the 20th, they will appear at the Aurora Street 
pavilion of the Ithaca Commons to celebrate locally-owned businesses.

Events sponsored by Cornell Students Against Sweatshops, the Cornell 
Organization for Labor Action, and the Student Assembly Finance 
Committee. Sunday appearance sponsored by the Social Justice 
Committee of the Ithaca Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).