Rev Billy in Wall Street Journal

Posted on | April 17, 2009 | No Comments

Things are surely a-changing in this time of financial apocalypse. Just one year ago, who would have thought that the Wall Street Journal would run a story – a highly positive story – on the anti-consumerist thoughts of magnificent activist Reverend Billy and The Church of Life After Shopping?
Read the article – with quotes such as: “It’s hard to imagine Timothy Geithner (former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, now the United States Secretary of the Treasury, ed.) taking advice from an iconoclast dressed in a white suit, clerical collar and Elvis-inspired hair, but the Reverend Billy may be on to something.

In place of a system where big banks and corporations enter neighborhoods only to profit from them, Reverend Billy wants to empower small banks and credit unions that hold a stake in the communities they serve by offering incentives and making it harder for big finance to undercut local business.

It’s hard to argue against the system he envisions.”

Watch the Wall Street Journal video below:

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