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Occupy: Rev. Billy's Freak Storm
The change that is in the air, that we all feel. No-one really knows why we are blessed with the common feeling. This same slaughter of the innocents has gone on for so long. This same mystical financing of poisoned farms, of dead oceans, of cancerous children and national false emotions - all this comes at us now as a bad surprise. We have a fresh rage. We have a shout that is honest, thousand of us. We are occupying our civic institutions stolen so long ago by men in suits, and surrounded by confused police. All at once, we want a better life and don't want to wait. Then this discovery: It is a better life to demand a better life! Revolujah!
Email this pageGRITtv: Rev. Billy & Savitri D Spread The Anti-Corporate Gospel: Earth-a-lujah!
Reverend Billy, Savitri D and the Church of Life After Shopping Choir are continuing to spread their gospel across the country. Their Earth-a-lujah! Tour is heading to California but first Rev. Billy and Savitri D stop by GRITtv to talk about the recently rescued Chilean miners, as well as their recent work, including protesting mountain-top removal and facing down against bigotry and discrimination by government officials.
GRITtv: September 17, 2009
How did the mainstream media cover this week’s Iranian election, tea-bagger rally in D.C. or former President Carter’s comment about racism and politics in the U.S.? Our media panel, Max Blumenthal, Janeane Garafolo, and Kai Wright, discuss newsmakers’ hits and misses. And in this week's Got Docs?: Raymond Myles was a man of profound contradiction: gospel singer, hustler, prominent representative of the New Orleans Black Church, scorned gay worshipper. Now, he is the subject of Leo Sacks' A Taste of Heaven: The Heartbreak life of Raymond Myles.
