Reverend Billy's Bay Tour Takes the On-Ramp to Redemption

Reverend Billy's Bay Tour Takes the On-Ramp to Redemption

- TRAFFIC JAMMING Takes on Global Warming -

NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- As the usual 4:00 PM traffic jam rounded its way around the Essex Street on-ramp to I-80 and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco yesterday, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir blessed the drivers on the highway entrance with songs of hope, deliverance and liberation.

"TRAFFIC JAMMING" as Reverend Billy so fondly calls this new form of environmental activism that wends its way through commuter gridlock, looks to raise awareness over consumerism's impact on our planet.

"When we're in our big box cars to get to the Big Box stores, and we're going nowhere fast on $3.00 gas, we feel the need for change," says Reverend Billy (a.k.a. Bill Talen). "We've got to free ourselves and walk until we find our way back home -- we've got to walk together, children. Hallelujah!"

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir are touring the San Francisco Bay area this week on a holy crusade, urging consumers to support their local proprietors and community economies by rejecting Wal-Mart and other mega-stores. With sermons, songs and street spectacle, the San Francisco Stop Shopping tour will deliver sinners from the deepest American vice and wickedness: love of buying and accumulating unnecessary, sweatshop- produced goods. "We're coming to a traffic jam near you," says Billy.

Traffic performances will continue all week and throughout the year. The Bay Area tour will culminate on May 1 with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir joining immigrant rights activists in The Great American Boycott 2006. "It's a nationwide exorcism, children, to stop legislation that will criminalize people who've come here looking for HOPE!" says Reverend Billy. "Can I hear a CHANGE-A-LUJAH?"

To arrange an interview or confession with Reverend Billy, please contact Ann-Marie Nieves, 914-461-4360 or anieves@pronumbra.com. Visit http://www.revbilly.com/ for an online press kit and check out the Reverend's new website celebrating life without consumerism: http://www.walmartless.com/.

The Church of Stop Shopping Statement of Belief: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir believe that consumerism is overwhelming our lives, and that corporations want us to have experiences only through their products. So we are singing and preaching for local economies and real -- not mediated through products -- experience.

Contacts: Keith Emmer, 212-920-9205, kemmer@pronumbra.com

Ann-Marie Nieves, 914-461-4360, anieves@pronumbra.com

Source: Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping

CONTACT: Keith Emmer, +1-212-920-9205, kemmer@pronumbra.com, or
Ann-Marie Nieves, +1-914-461-4360, anieves@pronumbra.com, both for Reverend
Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping

Web site: http://www.revbilly.com/
http://www.walmartless.com/

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