[SustainableTompkins] pro-local, anti-consumerist troupe in Ithaca SAT and SUN

[Margaret McCasland]

Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA) and the Social Justice 
Committee of  Ithaca Monthly Meeting (Quakers) are the proud sponsors 
of the Ithaca appearance of Reverend Billy's and the Church of Stop 
Shopping choir.

The dynamic and inspiring performance troupe is bringing their 
message of "radical localism" to Ithaca THIS weekend.

Their opposition to clothes and doodads made in sweat-shops and 
unsafe factories were featured in Morgan Spurlock's film, "What Would 
Jesus Buy?"   Check out <revbilly.com> for some of the flavor of the 
film and the troupe's work.

[from Margaret: I saw the film, and Billy and the troupe really get 
the importance of local economies and the wastefulness of mall-based 
culture]


Saturday: the Reverend Billy will save us from our consumerist demons!
7 pm
Anabel Taylor Chapel
Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University
ATH is at the corner of Campus Road and College Ave (the section 
formerly known as East Avenue)


Sunday: celebrate radical localism with the Reverend Billy and the 
Church of Stop Shopping Choir!
12:30
Ithaca Commons
Aurora St Pavilion


from COLA:
Let's get together and figure out what needs to be done to save our 
communities and our souls! Amen!

They are exuberant activists engaged in radical performance actions 
and 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. Exorcising the demons from Starbucks 
cash registers!!

Amidst the bra and panty racks in Victoria's Secret, shouting out the 
truth about the clear-cutting of Canadian Boreal forests for the 
company's million catalogs a day!!

Pushing the limits of activism, and doing it with song, dance and 
pizzazz. Let's learn to put the fun back into activism!