Amy Goodman
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Reverend Billy Faces Year in Prison for Protesting JPMorgan Chase's Financing of Fossil Fuels
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November 26, 2013
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9:48Now PlayingFor more than a decade, Reverend Billy, along with his Church of Stop Shopping, has preached fiery sermons against recreational consumerism and more recently, against climate disaster. You can often find them greeting the crush of shoppers at Macy's in New York City on Black Friday. That may not be the case this year. That is because in September, Rev. Billy was arrested after staging a 15minute musical protest at a JPMorgan Chase Bank in Manhattan to highlight the bank's environmental record and the extinction of a Central American golden toad. He now faces a year in prison for misdemeanor charges of riot in the second degree, menacing in the third degree, unlawful assembly and two counts of disorderly conduct. Despite this, he and The Stop Shopping Choir are performing in New York City every Sunday through December 22. Rev. Billy is also featured in the film "What Would Jesus Buy?" and in the book of the same name.
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