You must check out the newest from my favorite transcendent and down to earth preacher.--Laurie Anderson; artist; musicianThe Earth Wants YOU is a motivational handbook; filled with inspired visions of a wild; creative; Earth-led cultural revolution. Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping offer up a heady mix of humor; insightful critique; passionate commitment; emotional catharsis; and example after example of vibrant direct action. Stop shopping and feel the love as you sign up for the struggle of our lives! Earthalujah!Praise for The Earth Wants YOU:"Singing instructions for joining the Earthalujah choir!"--Jodie Evans; CODEPINK"My Earthmojis are smiling for Reverend Billy! And thats all the dirt youre gonna get from me. O;"--Justin Vivian Bond; trans-genre artist; Radical Faerie"Mama Earth will shake us ALL off unless we shake shit UP and shut it DOWN!"--Bertha Lewis; The Black Institute"This is what makes social movements succeed--its the big love-slog we have to go through to achieve change."--Andy Bichlbaum; The Yes Men"Join Rev and his merry band of activists as they imagine ways of arousing concern for the environment and racial justice."--Coco Fusco; creator of Eu Sou Um Consumidor"When the singing activists hit the high notes in a bank lobby or a DARPA lab or the back aisle of a Walmart; they wipe away the veils hiding the madness of our corporate-controlled; consumer-crazed society."--Annie Leonard; director of Greenpeace USA"Ssssh; listen . . . let the Church of Stop Shopping exorcise your fear; doubt and burnout; and join the Earthalujah Revolution!"mdash;Jess Worth; BP or not BP?"This call to action is at once sobering and encouraging. We have fucked up really badly; but the ability to see itmdash;is the first and hardest step toward fixing it."--Douglas Rushkoff; author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus"Reverend Billys ALL IN! bodies and voices . . . not just clicks and posts; for this small village we call Earth. Preach On!"--Obang Metho; Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia"The Stop Shoppers packs a whoop."--Roberto Sifuentes; La Pocha Nostra"In between satire and silence; there is a space of penetrating reckoning for all vibrations that flow counter to the balance of Nature. And from this dynamic and tricky space; the Honorable Reverend and his Holified Choir will shout; sing and sermonize a soul-bound love message of Truthalujah!"--John Sims; The AfroDixie Remixes"The Church of Stop Shopping is in the vanguard of a new movement that challenges this consumer society that is killing our planet."--Mike Roselle; Climate Ground Zero and Coal River Mountain Watch"Billy; Savi and the choir have love and optimistic humor; and they dont give up on people."--David LaChapelle; comedian"He seems to be writing while his actions are going on; like he can write while hes hand-cuffed."--Benny Zable; The Nimbin Environment Centre; NSW Australia"The Earth Wants You takes readers deep inside the heart; mind and balls of the activist-artist. Reverend Billy rocks hard!"--Annie Sprinkle; artist; ecosexual sexecologist"He was a comic act. Now hes evolved into a man compulsively challenging the true extent of the right to protest."--Anohni; creator of the song "4 Degrees"Reverend Billy and his choir of singing-activists are on the front lines of creative direct action; and here they offer up a distillation of the passion; the inspiration; and the hopes for love and survival that fuel their work. In a mix of essays; polemics; surrealist scenarios and news flashes from the frontlines; Reverend Billy answers the question; "What are we to do?" with a resounding chorus of "Take Action NOW!"
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