Rev. Billy Talen visits Occupy Chicago with Rainforest Action Network

The Most Reverend Billy Talen comes to Occupy Chicago to preach in front of the Bank of America and the Federal Reserve Bank.

Rainforest Action Network http://ran.org/
More recently, Reverend Billy has been lending his talents to the Occupy movement. According to the Rev: "We are meditating on this year's Buy Nothing Day activities, with all the Occupy Wall Street energy. Certainly surprised by the acquittal. The judge was a former prosecutor and apparent Republican. Maybe he's come over to the 99%."

The week started out with a visit to Bank of America's regional office in downtown Chicago with Reverend Billy.
http://understory.ran.org/2011/12/13/chicagos-week-of-action-against-bank-of-america/
Last week, RAN teamed up with Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, Occupy Chicago, and Reverend Billy for a week of action against B of A highlighting the bank's $4.3 billion dollars invested in the coal industry and its impacts on local communities in Chicago.


Resurrecting mountains at Chase lobbies on Easter Sunday
http://www.revbilly.com/mud-mountain-2
"The Reverend preached to a sidewalk crowd through a white megaphone. When the Choir reached their second destination at Astor Place, three NYPD squad cars surrounded the action. Rev. Billy told the officers taping his speech that he was leaving a message for JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon in a plastic Easter egg on the peak inside the lobby. As Talen concluded his sermon, the NYPD demanded that he remove the miniature mountain from the floor of the ATM lobby, which Rev. Billy refused to do. He was subsequently arrested."

The Church of Life After Shopping http://www.revbilly.com/


The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy's Reality Joke
By Nathan Schneider ~ Religion Dispatches
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/5385/the_revolujah!_will_be_performed%3A_reverend_billy%E2%80%99s_reality_joke/
Insofar as New York City's streets are themselves a theater, Reverend Billy has been one of its stars, or star hecklers, for more than a decade. From his early preaching at the Disney Store at Times Square, to the "real" church that grew around him in the wake of 9/11, to the role he has played in giving shape to Occupy Wall Street, Billy Talen, together with his wife and partner Savitri D, have blended radical politics with prophetic preaching in a way that unsettles the usual categories of religious and secular, performance and regular life.