What Would Jesus Buy? Film night!

Beyond Resistance presents (in true Christmas spirit): What Would Jesus Buy?

What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop
Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save
Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism,
over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!

From producer Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) and director Rob
VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of
Christmas.  Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who
hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was
becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and
inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to
match his white caterer's jacket, bleached his hair and became the
Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since 1999, Reverend
Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit
preaching on subways, to the leader of a congregation and a movement
whose numbers are well into the thousands.

Through retail interventions, corporate exorcisms, and some good
old-fashioned preaching, Reverend Billy reminds us that we have lost
the true meaning of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? is a  journey
into the heart of America – from exorcising the demons at the Wal-Mart
headquarters to taking over the center stage at the Mall of America
and then ultimately heading to the Promised Land … Disneyland.

Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQEhqZO-gE

Food, drinks and childcare will be provided, so come on down and join
your local anarchists as part of our monthly film nights at the WEA!
Zines, books and more will also be available on the night.

Thursday 17th December. Doors open: 6.30pm. Film starts: 7pm.
WEA (59 Gloucester Street), Otautahi/Christchurch.

Koha entry.

For more information contact:
otautahianarchists (at) gmail.com
http://beyondresistance.wordpress.com/

See you then!