1 00:00:51,259 --> 00:00:59,964 As fall turns to winter across this nation, many millions will converge on centers of worship large and small, 2 00:00:59,964 --> 00:01:05,689 to celebrate and give thanks to a familiar God. 3 00:01:15,631 --> 00:01:19,827 He tells us to buy now and pay later. He tempts us with promises of endless credit. 4 00:01:19,827 --> 00:01:24,023 As he leads us down the path to eternal debt. 5 00:01:28,219 --> 00:01:30,313 'Tis the season to be shopping.... 6 00:01:30,313 --> 00:01:34,287 There's just one more thing you have to do before the end of the year and that is... Shop yourself silly! 7 00:01:34,287 --> 00:01:37,323 People are saying "Look, we can't just let the terrorists win... 8 00:01:37,323 --> 00:01:38,675 ...and just stay home." 9 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:41,138 Millions of Americans are hitting the stores... 10 00:01:41,138 --> 00:01:45,092 ... Tradition on this Black Friday is... Get out and shop... till you drop. 11 00:01:47,153 --> 00:01:50,638 We used to be a nation of producers, 12 00:01:50,638 --> 00:01:53,761 and are now a nation of consumers. 13 00:01:53,761 --> 00:01:59,778 American stores, could already fit every man, woman and child in north America, 14 00:01:59,778 --> 00:02:04,245 South America and Europe, inside them, at one time. 15 00:02:04,245 --> 00:02:07,431 We love toys and Elmo... - We love Elmo! 16 00:02:07,431 --> 00:02:11,754 Our gadgets, appliances, tools... - I've a gift for you guys! - flat panel TV's... 17 00:02:11,754 --> 00:02:15,955 we have to have that or it won't be a happy holiday! 18 00:02:15,955 --> 00:02:22,804 For the first time, since the great depression, our household personal savings rate is below zero 19 00:02:22,804 --> 00:02:28,391 and 60% of us, are in long-term debt on our credit cards. 20 00:02:28,391 --> 00:02:31,764 ...This is free financing for all your purchases... 21 00:02:31,764 --> 00:02:36,244 We now spend under one hour a week in religious or spiritual time, 22 00:02:36,244 --> 00:02:39,569 and over five hours a week shopping! 23 00:02:39,569 --> 00:02:44,188 Over 15 million Americans, may be clinically addicted to it. 24 00:02:44,188 --> 00:02:49,608 "...people saw that there is very limited supply and they begin behaving like animals. 25 00:02:49,608 --> 00:02:51,865 I just like to say as I always say, 26 00:02:51,865 --> 00:02:55,874 sometimes I enjoy my diamond ring much more than I enjoy my husband! 27 00:02:55,966 --> 00:02:59,729 If you've feed something that She doesn't like, she says "Oh mommy I don't like that! 28 00:02:59,851 --> 00:03:01,063 She actually goes potty... " 29 00:03:01,094 --> 00:03:07,723 You know people will run over a pregnant woman to get to the Item they want, there is no surprise there. 30 00:03:07,723 --> 00:03:13,442 Three quarters of us, view Christmas with more dread than anticipation. 31 00:03:13,442 --> 00:03:23,134 Yet we'll spend half a trillion dollars on Christmas this year and create five million tons of extra waste. 32 00:03:23,134 --> 00:03:25,692 Some say it's all gotten out of control, 33 00:03:25,692 --> 00:03:31,047 this Church of Stop Shopping is planning what it calls "a Shopocalypse tour". 34 00:03:31,140 --> 00:03:34,174 Drive the demons out of those cash registers... 35 00:03:34,174 --> 00:03:36,945 Reverend Billy, what is the mission? What is you're trying to tell people? 36 00:03:36,945 --> 00:03:39,467 We're trying to get people to slow down their consumption, Amen! 37 00:03:39,467 --> 00:03:45,305 We're addicted, conflicted! We're hypnotized! consumerized! 38 00:03:50,569 --> 00:03:55,751 ...consumers are expecting to spend around 40 to 57 billion dollars this holiday season, 39 00:03:55,751 --> 00:04:01,215 this weekend alone, is gonna be the busiest shopping weekend of the year. 40 00:04:01,554 --> 00:04:09,493 Stop shopping! Save us from our credit cards! You don't have to BUY a gift, to GIVE a gift! 41 00:04:10,154 --> 00:04:11,398 Amen! 42 00:04:11,398 --> 00:04:15,245 Stop shopping children, we can go the other way! 43 00:04:15,245 --> 00:04:19,716 Folks, only 30 days of shopping to Christmas. 44 00:04:19,716 --> 00:04:24,471 Stop it! Slow down your consumption! 45 00:04:41,827 --> 00:04:45,826 It's time to stop! Stop shopping... 46 00:04:45,900 --> 00:05:00,595 Stop, stop shopping, Halleluja, sing Halleluja... we will never shop again, forever and for... 47 00:05:00,923 --> 00:05:03,489 Halleluja! 48 00:05:03,857 --> 00:05:07,725 We won't shop again! 49 00:05:08,585 --> 00:05:15,143 We're gonna put those Nikes down and we'll stop shopping, shopping 50 00:05:15,143 --> 00:05:21,657 we're gonna put that Starbucks down and we'll stop shopping, shopping 51 00:05:21,657 --> 00:05:34,513 we're gonna put that Wal-Mart down and we will start to stop, Halleluja! Halleluja! 52 00:05:41,963 --> 00:05:54,864 Let me tell you something, Who's the man who cast the pall on the big bad shopping mall? 53 00:05:54,864 --> 00:06:02,520 He will stop you, he will shock you, he will test you, he will bless you. 54 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:08,895 Children give up all your sin, 'cause he's our reverend. 55 00:06:08,895 --> 00:06:11,674 Reverend Billy! 56 00:06:28,146 --> 00:06:36,155 Help us! Bless us, Give us the power to... STOP SHOPPING! 57 00:06:36,155 --> 00:06:37,386 Amen! 58 00:06:37,386 --> 00:06:38,806 Yeah! 59 00:06:42,403 --> 00:06:49,871 We're here today... 28 days before Christmas 60 00:06:49,871 --> 00:06:58,684 That's behind so many layers of billboards and supermodels looking down at us... in their Christmas lingerie. 61 00:06:58,684 --> 00:07:06,439 Billboards covered with fake dickensian gingerbread lattes. 62 00:07:06,439 --> 00:07:10,730 They're beating each other up at the cash register in the supermalls. 63 00:07:10,730 --> 00:07:13,056 I think I know what they're doing. 64 00:07:14,132 --> 00:07:23,866 I have some compassion there, some part of me... feels pretty violent right now about Christmas. 65 00:07:25,876 --> 00:07:33,520 Oh, we're gonna go out across... this shopping addicted country. Please remember us. 66 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,441 We might be chased across that Wal-Mart parking lot. 67 00:07:37,441 --> 00:07:40,220 We don't know what kind of jail in might be in. 68 00:07:40,220 --> 00:07:42,686 Macy's and Bloomindale's have jails now. 69 00:07:44,147 --> 00:07:48,396 We're gonna out there. We're gonna keep those biodiesel busses going on... 70 00:07:48,396 --> 00:07:49,927 and make sense 71 00:07:49,927 --> 00:07:54,769 of this journey into utter absurdity. 72 00:07:56,024 --> 00:07:59,391 I know that all we're asking people to do, is to slow down their shopping. 73 00:08:00,791 --> 00:08:05,334 What am I saying? Stop shopping! 74 00:08:16,132 --> 00:08:21,230 happy holiday, happy holiday 75 00:08:21,230 --> 00:08:26,600 while the merry bells keep ringing, may your every wish come true. 76 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,970 Happy holiday, happy holiday 77 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:38,383 may the..... keep ringing happy holidays to you 78 00:08:38,917 --> 00:08:40,705 it's not a traditional anymore, like where 79 00:08:40,751 --> 00:08:45,419 you can just be around your family and buy them small things and they appreciate it. 80 00:08:45,419 --> 00:08:48,502 And now if you get people small things they don't appreciate it. 81 00:08:48,637 --> 00:08:52,269 I would not want to celebrate Christmas if there were no gifts. 82 00:08:52,269 --> 00:08:55,712 gotta have the Christmas spirit, with some brand new rims. 83 00:08:55,712 --> 00:08:59,964 Material stuff ain't important, I just wanna, cruise around flashing my rims 84 00:08:59,964 --> 00:09:04,466 so you can see me down the street... damn! look what he got for Christmas! 85 00:09:04,466 --> 00:09:10,625 This year for Christmas I want The Gucci dog tag with the free cuflinks....and Prada shoes. 86 00:09:11,071 --> 00:09:14,751 Whatever costs a lot, people want. People don't what something that's cheap. 87 00:09:14,751 --> 00:09:17,708 ...And then you just throw them away, buy new ones. 88 00:09:17,708 --> 00:09:25,723 It's not a bad holiday, it's just more if... you go broke. And the news lets you know that you're gonna go broke. 89 00:09:25,723 --> 00:09:29,538 I've had my life threatened, I've had people follow me out to the parking lot and try to beat me up 90 00:09:29,538 --> 00:09:35,602 as if I have all the systems in my car. I've had people curse me out, I've had people actually spit at me, 91 00:09:35,695 --> 00:09:38,345 I had a woman who's about 60 years old curse me put and spit on me 92 00:09:38,345 --> 00:09:41,608 for not having a PS3 for her 6-years old grandson... 93 00:09:41,608 --> 00:09:46,186 That's just me, too - we've had a lot worse in some of the other stores. 94 00:09:46,186 --> 00:09:51,122 What do we have here? Laser tag... drum set! 95 00:09:51,122 --> 00:09:57,427 It's for the kids, for the kids. I don't care if I go broke, it's for my kids. 96 00:10:02,302 --> 00:10:06,270 I was living in Times Square and I couldn't figure out where I was. 97 00:10:06,270 --> 00:10:10,024 My neighborhood had turned into a mall. 98 00:10:10,024 --> 00:10:14,224 Small shops were getting closed down, and here's Mickey Mouse, here's the Lion King, 99 00:10:14,224 --> 00:10:20,443 here's all these Disney industries... Nobody really goes here anymore EXCEPT consumers. 100 00:10:21,889 --> 00:10:24,106 It's lost. 101 00:10:27,544 --> 00:10:32,366 Than I asked myself "Who's shouting here, who's really getting out there and raising their voice a bit, 102 00:10:32,366 --> 00:10:34,778 ...Repent..... - It was the sidewalk preachers! 103 00:10:34,778 --> 00:10:37,191 ... For the kingdom of heaven is at hand... 104 00:10:37,191 --> 00:10:44,111 I bind the spirit right now with the name of Jesus' Father, I loose the kingdom of Jesus Christ upon them. 105 00:10:44,111 --> 00:10:48,281 Ye shall be roasting on your roaster, while you're toasting on your toaster, 106 00:10:48,281 --> 00:10:51,950 ...as you're coasting on your coaster. 107 00:10:51,950 --> 00:10:57,416 I went and bought little pine pulpit. I was catering tables at the time, so I had a tuxedo. 108 00:10:57,416 --> 00:11:05,225 And I just started to bellow: "People.... tourists... listen to me! 109 00:11:05,225 --> 00:11:10,668 Mickey Mouse is the Antichrist! 110 00:11:10,668 --> 00:11:16,748 We have to start our own church that isn't about the worship of the retail moment. 111 00:11:16,748 --> 00:11:23,218 Goofy's come to steal the dreams and imagination of you children! Hallelujah! 112 00:11:23,218 --> 00:11:27,148 You're under arrest. Put your hands behind your back. 113 00:11:27,148 --> 00:11:31,936 Stop shopping! Stop shopping! (Crowd shouting: Let him go!) 114 00:11:47,644 --> 00:11:57,562 If we were able to change Christmas ...we would change the whole year. 115 00:11:57,562 --> 00:12:01,511 You know, the 'Stop Shopping' Church doesn't necessarily... we don't have the answer. 116 00:12:01,511 --> 00:12:07,510 And we're trying to slow down our own shopping. I think we have .... the question... 117 00:12:07,510 --> 00:12:10,464 ..the question. 118 00:12:17,157 --> 00:12:24,182 Toasters, remember? Toaster! Now, see someone! 119 00:12:24,255 --> 00:12:31,650 Well, Billy and I fell in love before I ever saw Reverend Billy and really knew what he was up to. 120 00:12:31,650 --> 00:12:36,100 We were married by the time I started directing the show. 121 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:41,914 I was intrigued from the beginning by the choir. I watched the choir grow from, you know, 122 00:12:41,914 --> 00:12:49,282 six people and a musician to 35 singers and a 7 piece band. 123 00:12:49,434 --> 00:12:56,099 We say 'Stop shopping' just to get your attention. Certainly nobody can stop shopping. 124 00:12:56,099 --> 00:13:00,270 But you can have a conscience about your shopping. 125 00:13:00,270 --> 00:13:03,520 Think about how it affects other people, 126 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:08,680 just explore the options, that's all we ask. 127 00:13:09,592 --> 00:13:19,389 We've got scientists... preachers' kids, high-school teachers, recovering executives, 128 00:13:19,389 --> 00:13:25,730 and we're all joined together in the 'Church of Stop Shopping gospel choir.' 129 00:13:25,730 --> 00:13:30,140 I've no idea how Billy does it really. I even don't know how many times he's been arrested. 130 00:13:30,140 --> 00:13:32,016 I couldn't even tell you. 131 00:13:32,016 --> 00:13:40,380 Sometimes I worry... Billy is going to jail for a while. you know, it doesn't slow him down at all. 132 00:13:41,004 --> 00:13:53,984 The Shopocalypse... it comes in the form of the Stonehenge of logos! 133 00:13:53,984 --> 00:14:01,875 And we pray today for protection and safety as we get into our two bio-diesel busses 134 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:11,615 and if the fabulous unknown protects us and keeps us we'll be in the Promised Land of customers! 135 00:14:22,623 --> 00:14:25,547 While many people hit the malls to do a little Christmas shopping today 136 00:14:25,547 --> 00:14:30,264 one man is on a mission to stop what he calls 'The Shopop.... Shopo... 137 00:14:30,264 --> 00:14:33,302 Shopocalypse. It's like Apocalypse and shopping together. 138 00:14:33,302 --> 00:14:38,115 The church of Stop Shopping! They're on a month-long, cross-country tour 139 00:14:38,115 --> 00:14:45,753 to convince people to reject overconsumption and change their shopping ways. 140 00:14:59,357 --> 00:15:02,491 This year for Christmas I want a disposable cell phone. 141 00:15:02,491 --> 00:15:10,497 XBox 360, Nintento 'Revolution.' -Nintendo DS for Christmas. All the kids are talking about it... 142 00:15:10,497 --> 00:15:19,604 This year I want so much! - I want an iPod! - a Batman mobile.. - An army knife and an army gun! 143 00:15:21,419 --> 00:15:26,206 What do you want for Christmas this year? - A outdoor dog and ferries... 144 00:15:26,555 --> 00:15:31,395 and Rudolph the rednosed Reindeer to come to my house! 145 00:15:31,395 --> 00:15:35,210 How many presents do you think is 'A lot of presents'? - 100! 146 00:15:35,210 --> 00:15:37,664 Oh, 100, that is a lot of presents. 147 00:15:37,664 --> 00:15:41,559 When you can afford it, it's hard to draw a line sometimes between 148 00:15:41,636 --> 00:15:46,008 being moderate and giving them all they need and want versus spoiling them. 149 00:15:46,008 --> 00:15:55,952 All over here are The toys. And over here are my doll-house stuff. And my dream things are over here.... 150 00:15:55,952 --> 00:16:02,827 She has seen commercials on the Saturday morning shows, and anytime she sees something 151 00:16:02,827 --> 00:16:09,361 she yells out: "Mommy, come see this! I want this!" 152 00:16:10,007 --> 00:16:15,061 It's a crocodile and I named him Chum-chump. My favorite toy is Chum-chump! 153 00:16:15,061 --> 00:16:20,178 Do you think you have too many toys? -Yeeees! - Well how did that happen? 154 00:16:20,178 --> 00:16:25,431 Because you and mommy gave them to me, and Christmas.... 155 00:16:25,431 --> 00:16:31,220 This... has nothing in it. Daddy, what's this? 156 00:16:31,220 --> 00:16:37,817 The intriguing thing really is that most of the 'togetherness' is now created around the gift-giving. 157 00:16:37,817 --> 00:16:43,346 Christmas almost died out in America after the Revolution. Then it was realized 158 00:16:43,346 --> 00:16:48,017 this was a wonderful commercial opportunity because it combines this commercialism 159 00:16:48,017 --> 00:16:53,526 with a true feeling of love and affection. 160 00:16:56,476 --> 00:17:05,252 Our parents go to such immense trouble for making seem to children that nobody shopped for Christmas. 161 00:17:05,252 --> 00:17:09,617 The presents were all brought by Santa Claus who made them each by hand 162 00:17:09,617 --> 00:17:17,267 and disguise the fact that the gifts they bought for their kids have in fact come out of a shop 163 00:17:17,267 --> 00:17:25,347 and come out of a season of anxiety and sometimes - tragic desperation. 164 00:17:30,313 --> 00:17:36,488 From the very beginning all of us as babies are conditioned in this society 165 00:17:36,488 --> 00:17:43,579 to see Christmas in a certain way. And so they associate the material goods with the symbol of love, 166 00:17:43,579 --> 00:17:49,092 which is exactly what the marketers want them to do. 167 00:17:49,092 --> 00:17:54,306 In some countries it's illegal to advertise to children under 12. 168 00:17:54,306 --> 00:18:00,030 But in America we spend over 15 billion dollars marketing to them. 169 00:18:00,030 --> 00:18:07,675 Studies reveal that until the age of 8 most children don't know the difference between advertising and entertainment. 170 00:18:07,675 --> 00:18:13,680 American children now absorb over 40 hours of media exposure a week. 171 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:21,326 While meaningful conversations with their parents will total less than .. 40 minutes. 172 00:18:21,326 --> 00:18:26,649 Despite suffering a shotgun blast through his chest Michael Penkala stayed focused 173 00:18:26,649 --> 00:18:31,832 on being one of the first US buyers of the new Playstation 3 from Sony. 174 00:18:31,832 --> 00:18:37,848 Penkala was on the floor coughing out blood and telling the workers to take the wallet out of his pocket 175 00:18:37,848 --> 00:18:42,435 to purchase the PS3. 176 00:18:45,118 --> 00:18:49,168 It's like drinking Dickens. 177 00:18:49,352 --> 00:18:52,493 I hear you brother. 178 00:18:52,493 --> 00:19:01,623 Had to plaaaay the XBox 360, WOW, it's craaaazy, it's just like Real Life! 179 00:19:01,623 --> 00:19:04,980 This is my secret.... 180 00:19:05,233 --> 00:19:09,988 Gonna go tackle the choir?.... Billy, that's what I want you to say. 181 00:19:09,988 --> 00:19:12,651 I want you to really practice the thing we talked about yesterday: generosity, 182 00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:17,639 opening your eyes.... I want you to go in the other direction about connecting to people. 183 00:19:17,778 --> 00:19:23,716 Don't go to the performance! Let the performance emerge, OK, from a real situation. 184 00:19:23,898 --> 00:19:28,951 Hallelujah. Exactly! 185 00:19:41,136 --> 00:19:47,682 So you ask 'What exactly is the Shopocalypse'? 186 00:19:47,682 --> 00:19:57,900 It's that discounted luxury item, that we are all buying as we are all dying. 187 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,357 We're proceeding into the shopping season under an enormous misunderstanding: 188 00:20:00,357 --> 00:20:10,606 We think we are consumers at Christmas time. NO! We are Being Consumed at Christmas time! 189 00:20:10,606 --> 00:20:15,974 Over there, that new XBox 360, Oh My God, NO, NO, I gotta have it, gotta have it, 190 00:20:15,974 --> 00:20:19,535 IT FEELS LIKE REAL LIFE! 191 00:20:19,704 --> 00:20:23,501 Somebody give me a Changelujah here. 192 00:20:23,501 --> 00:20:26,176 Changelujah! Can you do that brother? 193 00:20:26,176 --> 00:20:31,505 May this young man..... may the ability to distinguish between real life and simulated life 194 00:20:31,505 --> 00:20:35,349 come into his body yeeeeah! 195 00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:55,254 I can live in the mall. I dreamed about living in the mall once. 196 00:20:55,254 --> 00:21:00,378 It was a cool dream! It was like my parents owned the mall and I could get whatever I wanted. 197 00:21:00,378 --> 00:21:04,085 That just made me want to smile. 198 00:21:04,085 --> 00:21:10,810 I mean, I'm a pretty smart girl, I can tell when they're trying to get us buy stuff, 199 00:21:10,810 --> 00:21:14,123 but then I wanna buy their stuff, so...you know... 200 00:21:14,123 --> 00:21:16,560 doesn't really make a difference if it's advertised or not, 201 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:22,420 I still wanna buy it because everybody's buying it. If everybody buys it then I'm gonna buy it. 202 00:21:22,420 --> 00:21:26,145 I just feel like sometimes you HAVE to buy your clothes at certain place, or else 203 00:21:26,145 --> 00:21:32,498 you won't be considered... normal. People will laugh at you, rumors will spread. 204 00:21:32,498 --> 00:21:38,002 And that is a bad thing. Very bad thing. 205 00:21:42,518 --> 00:21:47,471 We lost our whole box of Lola's Christmas outfits, everything's just gone, we can't find it. 206 00:21:47,471 --> 00:21:52,420 Noooo! - Her whole Christmas wardrobe is gone! 207 00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:56,500 Oh look! Here's a Louis Vuitton bag with the cherries. 208 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:00,801 I think she needs that, don't you? 209 00:22:05,402 --> 00:22:08,494 Good bye, thanks a lot! 210 00:22:08,728 --> 00:22:13,646 This is Lola's Christmas tree, she has her own ornaments; this is Lola's closet, 211 00:22:13,938 --> 00:22:21,173 Her wardrobe is kept and organised, her dresses and fancier things here, 212 00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:25,039 sweaters, slacks and coats all across the bottom here. 213 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:28,809 Hi sweetepie, you wanna put this on? 214 00:22:28,809 --> 00:22:36,038 That's so pretty! Let me see you. That's pretty. 215 00:22:37,546 --> 00:22:39,675 Cheers! 216 00:22:41,859 --> 00:22:46,529 Compulsive buying is something that overtakes someone. 217 00:22:46,529 --> 00:22:51,635 They need skills, tools and strategies to stop it; it's not enough to say: 218 00:22:51,635 --> 00:22:58,474 'I'm not gonna do it anymore!', because one has to respect all of the functions that it serves. 219 00:22:58,474 --> 00:23:03,400 I have a little reminder card that I give everybody I work with; it's got questions: 220 00:23:03,616 --> 00:23:12,575 Why am I here? Do I need this? How will I pay? What if I wait? And Where will I put it? 221 00:23:12,575 --> 00:23:17,079 Holidays do trigger some people. Buying is equated with love, 222 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:21,526 and happiness is just the next purchase away. 223 00:23:21,526 --> 00:23:23,989 Try to talk to me about your shopping sin. 224 00:23:23,989 --> 00:23:29,337 There's a store that I love; and I faithfully go everyday at lunch. 225 00:23:29,337 --> 00:23:32,471 Every day?? - Every day, and they always have a bargain. 226 00:23:32,471 --> 00:23:38,387 And the last time I was there they had this great blue dress, and I really wanted it! 227 00:23:38,387 --> 00:23:42,250 And I knew it would fit, I mean, I knew until I took it to the dressing room 228 00:23:42,250 --> 00:23:47,634 and got undressed and I ... got it up to my hips and I could not get that dress on. 229 00:23:47,634 --> 00:23:52,137 So I pushed the dress on; couldn't get it over my shoulders, so I thought: 230 00:23:52,137 --> 00:23:56,357 'No, this dress is gonna fit!' - and I put it on, and I wanted this dress SO BAD! 231 00:23:56,357 --> 00:24:01,051 And I pulled it at my.... Got It! Oh my.... I could not get it off. 232 00:24:01,051 --> 00:24:05,219 I tried every way: back down, back up, I could not call those ladies because 233 00:24:05,219 --> 00:24:12,672 I go there every day! I had to destroy it and I had little key scissors on my keychain 234 00:24:12,672 --> 00:24:16,557 and I cut myself out of it, cause I didn't want to embarrass myself and not be able 235 00:24:16,557 --> 00:24:19,808 to go back to that store, so.. I can still go to the store. 236 00:24:19,808 --> 00:24:21,862 But I probably shouldn't have done that. 237 00:24:21,862 --> 00:24:26,817 Sister, the fabulous Creator that gave you your wonderful body... 238 00:24:26,817 --> 00:24:32,997 is saying something to you at that moment. Your body destroyed that dress and 239 00:24:32,997 --> 00:24:39,297 it did the right thing. Maybe your needs will be what you refer to 240 00:24:39,297 --> 00:24:43,803 when you make the decision to shop. 241 00:24:43,803 --> 00:24:53,344 Go now and sin no more. - I just felt bad for ruining the dress, not for shopping! 242 00:25:15,686 --> 00:25:20,982 Yeah, it's lovely, it's got pictures of God holding semis in the air... 243 00:25:20,982 --> 00:25:26,321 hear my testimonial.... I just want to let you know that .. 244 00:25:26,321 --> 00:25:29,685 Travel John came in handy in my car last evening. 245 00:25:29,685 --> 00:25:38,276 It's just.... can't we shop? - We're not shopping, we're just.... uh.. 246 00:25:40,552 --> 00:25:44,997 My fear is that we'll be perceived as weirdos or not taken seriously, but.. 247 00:25:44,997 --> 00:25:52,955 there are people here that totally left their lives behind to try to do something. 248 00:25:52,955 --> 00:25:57,374 Before the Stop Shopping choir I always thought protesting was marching on Washington, 249 00:25:57,374 --> 00:26:02,249 shouting with signs, but it's a new serious political work in creative, fun ways. 250 00:26:02,249 --> 00:26:05,254 It's incredible, like nothing I expected. 251 00:26:05,254 --> 00:26:11,962 The chipmunk was wearing a little robe made of leaves; inside there was a crucifix and some holy wafers, 252 00:26:11,962 --> 00:26:15,870 that have been missing from the church for a week. 253 00:26:15,870 --> 00:26:18,846 I'm a sinner, yes I am, and I own a lot. 254 00:26:18,846 --> 00:26:27,082 Okey-dokey, I think it's a sale.... no, that's a waste, I can't pay 6 bucks on this crap... 255 00:26:31,081 --> 00:26:37,651 Thank you very much! I did not buy one thing! It was hard... 256 00:26:46,861 --> 00:26:50,195 What would Jesus buy? 257 00:26:50,195 --> 00:26:52,757 XBox 360! 258 00:26:52,757 --> 00:26:55,081 Jesus would probably buy a Playstation 3. 259 00:26:55,081 --> 00:27:00,144 Ooooh, this year he'd probably get a Wii, or a 360 if they didn't have any Wiis available. 260 00:27:00,144 --> 00:27:03,146 Well I don't think we'd see Jesus at Wal-Mart buying a new pair of shoes, 261 00:27:03,146 --> 00:27:06,796 although it is cold down here and he might get socks. 262 00:27:06,796 --> 00:27:11,601 I don't know... I don't think he'd have to buy anything, well I guess he would. 263 00:27:11,601 --> 00:27:17,837 He would buy because, you know, you need bread, he'd buy the necessities. 264 00:27:17,837 --> 00:27:24,191 I think he was very conservative. Not a Republican! 265 00:27:24,191 --> 00:27:30,007 He might with love and maybe a bit of sternness in his voice, say: 266 00:27:30,007 --> 00:27:35,503 "Look, you're reading the Scriptures, but you're missing half the message! 267 00:27:35,626 --> 00:27:39,880 Why don't you learn about what to do about the poor?" 268 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:47,088 Why do the CEOs get 500% more than the one at the bottom? 269 00:27:47,088 --> 00:27:53,494 God is wonderful, he answers all prayers. 'Cause for a long time I prayed: 270 00:27:53,494 --> 00:27:57,641 'Please get me off the streets of Outskid Row.' 271 00:27:58,671 --> 00:28:09,991 And here I am with my own room, fully decorated for Christmas, and I'm just really, really thankful! 272 00:28:17,943 --> 00:28:23,274 "Buy the baby gift. Do we shop, do we die? Oh no that kind of gift! 273 00:28:23,274 --> 00:28:30,272 What would Jesus buy, whaaat would Jesus buuuuuy." 274 00:28:34,176 --> 00:28:39,903 Sam Ruben live from Hollywood. This is WGM Morning news at 8. 275 00:28:39,903 --> 00:28:44,183 He's the only reverend with a court order barring him from entering any Starbucks in California. 276 00:28:44,183 --> 00:28:47,246 He says Mickey Mouse is his own personal Antichrist. 277 00:28:47,246 --> 00:28:51,095 Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping gospel choir are here this morning, Morning brother, 278 00:28:51,095 --> 00:28:53,153 how are you? - Hallelujah! - Nice to see you. 279 00:28:53,153 --> 00:28:57,930 So, you have a specific message, uh? - Oh yes, we're trying to... 280 00:28:57,930 --> 00:29:00,538 get people to think about what to do in this Christmas time. 281 00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:06,730 You wanna express love for the person you're giving the gift to with just another product from the supermall? 282 00:29:06,730 --> 00:29:12,006 Ask the question: 'What would Jesus buy!' - Right, I don't do it! 283 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:17,491 Exorcise your credit card... that's all right, that's OK. 284 00:29:17,629 --> 00:29:21,198 Hey, what if you sing a song here! I gotta get to the mall! 285 00:29:21,198 --> 00:29:26,256 Get out of here! That guy's got a shopping problem. Follow him! Hallelujah! 286 00:29:26,256 --> 00:29:31,339 Blessed are the Mickey D' free for they wil SAVE OUR CITY! 287 00:29:31,339 --> 00:29:37,614 Blessed are those who forgo the Gap, for they will save our sins! 288 00:29:37,614 --> 00:29:45,140 We will remoooove Starbucks! and Disney! 289 00:29:45,140 --> 00:29:51,990 Many shoppers have gone into the Magnificent mile and have never been seen again. 290 00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:57,653 Starbucks with a billionaire at the top and impoverished people at the bottom! 291 00:29:57,653 --> 00:30:02,006 Don't spend four dollars on a latte in this café. 292 00:30:02,006 --> 00:30:08,952 We didn't mean to create banana republic! It wasn't our idea! 293 00:30:08,952 --> 00:30:15,417 The Dysney company still presides over sweatshop facilities around the world. 294 00:30:15,417 --> 00:30:22,176 Suddenly, we see where it came from! We back away! 295 00:30:26,895 --> 00:30:39,630 We won't go back! We won't we won't, no more, no more! Hallelujah! 296 00:30:42,769 --> 00:30:52,240 Wake up America! Are you people, or are you sheeple, led to the Shopocalypse? 297 00:31:03,174 --> 00:31:09,250 I always wanted to have the high fashion shoes, and now I'm in debt. I'm 21 years old. 298 00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:14,765 Credit cards give you a false sense of economic security. That 'Buy now and pay us later!' 299 00:31:14,765 --> 00:31:17,493 - at high interest rates, that's what people forget about. 300 00:31:17,493 --> 00:31:22,010 You turn 18 and you get your first credit card and it's like this amazing thing... 301 00:31:22,010 --> 00:31:25,176 I'm just walking in, show the people this piece of plastic and I get what I want! 302 00:31:28,129 --> 00:31:33,513 It would typically take me until the end of fall next year to pay off Christmas bills. 303 00:31:33,513 --> 00:31:39,209 Christmas is when I go all out, you know, maybe I didn't always have nice stuff when I was growing up 304 00:31:39,209 --> 00:31:42,832 and I want them to have everything, I want them to grow up having name brand stuff 305 00:31:42,832 --> 00:31:47,551 and all the cool toys; and when their friends come over they can say they have it, 306 00:31:47,551 --> 00:31:54,786 My husband is ... like ... "No! We have a budget and we stick to a budget" and he doesn't know I have three or four. 307 00:31:54,786 --> 00:31:58,666 I don't believe in credit cards or anything like that. We do have a credit card 308 00:31:58,666 --> 00:32:00,959 and if we use it we just pay it off every month. 309 00:32:00,959 --> 00:32:04,584 Here it is again: Christmas and I'm just not getting cards and... 310 00:32:04,584 --> 00:32:09,157 I think he'll just have a fit when he finds out, so... 311 00:32:09,157 --> 00:32:14,592 This is a card that I just received in the mail and it will be maxed it out by the end of the day. 312 00:32:17,496 --> 00:32:21,120 When I was a girl there was no plastic. When I was a girl your credit was really 313 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,251 just a matter of a handshake; that's how my dad would hit the deal in my home town. 314 00:32:25,251 --> 00:32:31,734 You know that I'm gonna pay the store when I get paid, right? That was the credit line. 315 00:32:31,734 --> 00:32:39,450 American consumer credit debt has surpassed 2.4 trillion dollars, and 60% of us are carrying 316 00:32:39,450 --> 00:32:44,250 13 000 dollars in credit card debt this Christmas. 317 00:32:44,250 --> 00:32:50,461 At over 1 mln. a year bankruptcies continue to rise especially after the holidays. 318 00:32:50,461 --> 00:32:54,993 Yet, Americans will still get over 4 billion new credit card offers 319 00:32:54,993 --> 00:33:00,993 and charge over 100 billion dollars on Christmas gifts this year. 320 00:33:00,993 --> 00:33:07,241 We're seeing gift cards that function like credit cards; marketing to 12 - 13-year olds, 321 00:33:07,241 --> 00:33:14,726 we're seeing the marketing of consumerism to children as young as 3-years old! 322 00:33:14,726 --> 00:33:24,427 Friend! Friend! Lock that door! There are people here with... too much credit! 323 00:33:24,427 --> 00:33:32,499 I want everybody here to reach down in your wallet and I want you to bring out your credit card 324 00:33:32,499 --> 00:33:41,716 and I want you to wave it in the air, magnetic stripe facing Reverend Billy. 325 00:33:41,716 --> 00:33:47,239 We're gonna exorcise the credit! 326 00:33:47,581 --> 00:33:52,418 One time Jesus got violent was the money changers; 327 00:33:52,418 --> 00:33:58,685 when the Visas, the Citybanks came into the temple - that's when he got upset 328 00:33:58,685 --> 00:34:05,017 because of the outrageous users' rates that were being charged. 329 00:34:19,650 --> 00:34:23,810 Two weeks until Christmas that year. Wrapped up your shopping yet? Have you wrapped up 330 00:34:23,810 --> 00:34:29,751 your presents yet? Matell is feeling swell, saying barbie doll sales are up this year. Matter of fact it`s the top toy for girls... 331 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,394 How are you guys? I love the hair! 332 00:34:57,394 --> 00:35:01,311 I'm Reverend Billy and this is the stop hopping gospel choir. 333 00:35:01,311 --> 00:35:04,287 All right, give me a cue here. 334 00:35:43,976 --> 00:35:50,075 I love this! OK, I feel you man!, I really do! 335 00:35:51,568 --> 00:35:57,399 Look at this! - Can we sing you a song? - Absolutely! 336 00:36:39,133 --> 00:36:41,859 Serious! The little boy loved the brat line. 337 00:36:41,859 --> 00:36:49,274 He had a good sense of humor about it. Maybe that's the governor's. A certain awareness. He invited us inside! 338 00:36:49,274 --> 00:36:54,344 Oh yeah! Time to end the workday. 339 00:36:56,677 --> 00:37:04,225 Probably one of the happiest Christmasses that I can recall we sold some pop bottles 340 00:37:04,225 --> 00:37:09,395 and some rags, my wife and I. We used to buy rags, haha. 341 00:37:09,395 --> 00:37:16,672 So we sold pot models and rags. We were able to buy some paraffin wax and we made candles. 342 00:37:16,672 --> 00:37:22,212 And we gave everybody! Everybody had candles; actually when we left that little appartment 343 00:37:22,212 --> 00:37:27,351 it still had candle wax all down the stove! 344 00:37:27,351 --> 00:37:33,451 We didn't know we were poor, you know, because everybody was in the same boat. 345 00:37:33,451 --> 00:37:46,223 And my dad made Christmas so special because he always made sure there was oranges and apples 346 00:37:46,223 --> 00:37:51,061 along with maybe a pair of boots or something that we had to have. 347 00:37:51,061 --> 00:37:54,645 I was thinking that Santa was gonna come down the chimney and I was waiting for 348 00:37:54,645 --> 00:38:02,461 everything to be all right the next day...I just felt very happy, I had candy and 349 00:38:02,461 --> 00:38:07,810 a couple of basic things I had... and I was happy. 350 00:38:18,979 --> 00:38:21,312 Amen! 351 00:38:27,411 --> 00:38:33,839 Dear Reverend, today's my first visit to your website; I find that what you're accomplishing 352 00:38:33,839 --> 00:38:37,411 ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! Amen! 353 00:38:37,411 --> 00:38:44,456 This is Elisa and Grace and Uncle Billy... 354 00:38:44,517 --> 00:38:48,434 So these are Christmas cards... Right, we were supposed to be singing carols around the piano. 355 00:38:48,434 --> 00:39:02,470 Bill's probably about 7 here? And here's he's about 11. This is South Dakota. 356 00:39:02,470 --> 00:39:08,668 We were really made to have a creative life. So Bill had piano and cello, 357 00:39:08,668 --> 00:39:13,416 and he was actually very gifted musically. 358 00:39:13,416 --> 00:39:16,467 You know, it's one thing to be performing in the family in the living room, 359 00:39:16,467 --> 00:39:19,155 but it's another thing to say 'This is my life!' 360 00:39:19,155 --> 00:39:24,380 We'd go out there in the world with my talent, my heart, 361 00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:28,974 and make this be how people know me, what I do. 362 00:39:28,974 --> 00:39:34,727 I would say the performance element came to be totally in service of the message. 363 00:39:34,727 --> 00:39:39,981 And the message became the reason for Reverend Billy's being. 364 00:39:52,010 --> 00:39:55,218 We have to take Starbucks into our bodies! 365 00:39:55,218 --> 00:39:59,594 It has come into our neighborhoods like space aliens! 366 00:39:59,594 --> 00:40:02,763 Would you please shut up! 367 00:40:02,763 --> 00:40:06,363 What is it that you feel when the corporation is your best friend? 368 00:40:06,363 --> 00:40:12,007 When the corporation, the multinational corporation is your lover? 369 00:40:12,007 --> 00:40:15,954 Is Starbucks my lover? It's not my lover! 370 00:40:20,939 --> 00:40:28,682 Changelujah children! I call on the God that is NOT a product! Come into this evil Wal-Mart! 371 00:40:28,682 --> 00:40:33,521 Exorcise this cash register! Don't touch our children! 372 00:40:37,196 --> 00:40:44,798 Can I talk to you for a moment? - No! We're in church here! We're worshiping here! 373 00:41:02,892 --> 00:41:15,079 I just wanna ask the fabulous Unknown ...... for forgiveness on this leg of the trip! 374 00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:20,611 We froze our vegetable last night because we ran out of heating in this bus! 375 00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:28,758 I feel like Jimmy Swagger in this church when he got caught at 4 in the morning with a prostitute. 376 00:41:28,758 --> 00:41:34,617 He was in his church, his wife was in the front row and he was: 377 00:41:34,617 --> 00:41:39,991 "Dear, dear, I'm so sorry dear, I HAVE SINNED! 378 00:41:39,991 --> 00:41:43,233 Forgive me! 379 00:41:44,619 --> 00:41:52,809 We're back to fossil fuel. I'm so sorry! Forgive me!" 380 00:41:52,809 --> 00:41:56,019 Hallelujah brother! 381 00:41:56,390 --> 00:42:06,063 Amen! Amen! Amen! 382 00:42:35,292 --> 00:42:37,615 Give me your camera. 383 00:42:37,615 --> 00:42:40,490 Talk to him.... Liza! 384 00:42:40,490 --> 00:42:44,069 Stand on your knees..... we love you, we're with you! 385 00:42:44,904 --> 00:42:47,488 Don't move anybody! 386 00:42:47,842 --> 00:42:50,857 Everybody who's not injured, get off the bus right now! The paramedics are here.... 387 00:42:50,976 --> 00:42:52,973 Where are you hurting, buddy? 388 00:42:52,973 --> 00:42:56,469 Fractured ribs I believe.... 389 00:43:00,070 --> 00:43:04,101 Flight is coming in here? - Yeah. 390 00:43:04,848 --> 00:43:13,559 We were rammed by an 18-wheeler headed for Minneapolis. I don't know about the tour... 391 00:43:13,559 --> 00:43:19,298 Everybody's hugging everybody... it's ...we're getting MedEvacs... 392 00:43:26,635 --> 00:43:30,403 A semidriver apparently misjudged the speed of those buses and plowed right into the back 393 00:43:30,403 --> 00:43:33,747 of that second bus. 394 00:43:41,997 --> 00:43:45,246 They're apparently members of a performance activist group, in fact, 395 00:43:45,246 --> 00:43:48,084 and they're on a nation-wide mission with an intriguing message for shoppers 396 00:43:48,084 --> 00:43:49,789 this holiday season. 397 00:43:49,789 --> 00:43:56,734 We're on a mission to save Christmas from overconsumption; we want people to discover 398 00:43:56,734 --> 00:43:59,910 another way to give gifts to each other this year. 399 00:43:59,910 --> 00:44:03,340 And that right there was Reverend Billy. Although the group is based in comedy, 400 00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:07,379 their message is serious. Members say they're fighting against false idols 401 00:44:07,379 --> 00:44:10,727 of the Christmas spirit. 402 00:44:10,833 --> 00:44:18,042 Yes, we're the people that were touring in the bus together; we'd like to visit our friends... 403 00:44:18,042 --> 00:44:21,790 in the IC department somewhere. 404 00:44:23,797 --> 00:44:36,270 Oh, we can order medical university license plates. Don't delay, order yours today! 405 00:44:36,270 --> 00:44:39,107 Violin section in the background... 406 00:44:42,829 --> 00:44:49,023 They're went 13 people into the hospital, here, but they're starting to come around. 407 00:44:51,329 --> 00:44:53,174 Hey champ! 408 00:44:53,174 --> 00:45:00,189 So we're gonna try and charter a bus in the morning, I don't know really how that's gonna go. 409 00:45:00,189 --> 00:45:07,378 But, now everyone wants to just get back on the road. 410 00:45:15,102 --> 00:45:19,899 Of course, my mom was like 'You need to stop that tour, you're coming right home!' 411 00:45:19,899 --> 00:45:21,319 My momma said the same thing! 412 00:45:21,319 --> 00:45:26,761 I told her we don't give up! 413 00:45:29,874 --> 00:45:45,220 We will mooooove, yes we will! You know we're gonna GET BACK, right back, oooon that roooad.. 414 00:45:45,220 --> 00:45:57,009 and we'll spreeeeead, the gospel, of Stop shoppiiiing, and we won't give up, we won't give up; Push on! Push On! 415 00:45:59,116 --> 00:46:14,335 We will revive our church and continue, go on and on and we'll find, somehooooooow, somwheeeeere 416 00:46:14,335 --> 00:46:29,154 and we'll get on a brand new bus tomorrow early in the morning, and we won't give up we won't give up. Push on! Push On! PUSH ON! 417 00:46:38,474 --> 00:46:43,613 Are you the Reverend Billy? - Aaaaah, no. - We thought that's pretty funny, 418 00:46:43,613 --> 00:46:48,068 because our reverend is Reverend Billy. - Oh, really? - That's what he said. Reverend Billy. 419 00:46:49,652 --> 00:46:53,842 All right, your reverend is from what church? - The church of Stop Shopping. 420 00:46:56,318 --> 00:46:59,504 Interesting... - I've never heard of it! 421 00:46:59,504 --> 00:47:07,522 So, you're trying to establish a church here? Oh, you're just travelling.... - Oh, crusade! Way to go! 422 00:47:07,522 --> 00:47:13,488 You guys are doing a wonderful work! You are doing a mission! 423 00:47:13,488 --> 00:47:19,233 We here in Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, a missionary's job is to spread the Word, 424 00:47:19,233 --> 00:47:23,302 not just keep it to yourself but spread it throughout the land. 425 00:47:23,302 --> 00:47:31,150 That's the good thing. And it takes some guts to do that! 426 00:47:40,982 --> 00:47:45,263 Have you experienced the kind of electric charge as when you're going to a Big Box, 427 00:47:45,263 --> 00:47:51,724 you're going to a chain store, and you just get a little bit out of the proper prescribed behavior? 428 00:47:51,724 --> 00:47:59,258 Just a little bit outside of that, maybe raising an original issue; and maybe that issue goes to a table next to you... 429 00:47:59,420 --> 00:48:02,367 And it's just your first amendment, that's all. 430 00:48:02,813 --> 00:48:09,237 And maybe somebody finds you obnoxious? Nothing new for me baby! 431 00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:25,825 There are many places in America where there are no sidewalks. What does this say about us? 432 00:48:25,825 --> 00:48:30,660 It says that we have to either be in our car, or in our house, or in the mall! 433 00:48:30,660 --> 00:48:36,661 There are only commercial spaces in almost all of America, or private spaces. 434 00:48:36,661 --> 00:48:41,865 You're either trespassing, or you're buying. 435 00:48:41,865 --> 00:48:44,871 It's as if we live under a kind of enchantment. 436 00:48:44,871 --> 00:48:49,056 In a 100 years from now we won't be doing the things we're doing. 437 00:48:49,056 --> 00:48:56,463 We would've figured out way more interesting things to do than go shopping as our main activity. 438 00:48:56,463 --> 00:49:00,729 Unfortunately I also know that we don't have 100 years to make that transition. 439 00:49:00,729 --> 00:49:04,840 We gotta make it more quickly than it would happen naturally or else we're gonna derail 440 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:10,132 the Earth's physical system, especially its climate. 441 00:49:10,132 --> 00:49:16,075 This consumer frenzy makes everything into a commodity - everything has become a thing. 442 00:49:16,075 --> 00:49:23,691 Even Christmas, even Christ. The shopping mall is a symbol of everything that has gone wrong with Christmas, 443 00:49:23,691 --> 00:49:29,678 This isn't what Jesus had in mind for us. 444 00:49:32,517 --> 00:49:39,150 We would like to invite you to come to the Mall of America. 445 00:49:39,150 --> 00:49:52,907 We have 100 robes, we have this wonderful idea of sort of a anarchic mormontanemental choir. 446 00:50:03,303 --> 00:50:08,566 The once sleepy town of Bloomington, Minnesota. A monument for the ages has risen, 447 00:50:08,566 --> 00:50:12,633 with their own police force, an amusement park, a wedding chapel, 448 00:50:12,633 --> 00:50:18,102 and the first ever college campus built inside of a mall. 449 00:50:18,102 --> 00:50:24,056 Over 4 miles of storefront, with more than 42 million visitors per year! 450 00:50:24,056 --> 00:50:31,553 That's more visits than to the Capitol, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon and Disneyland combined. 451 00:50:31,553 --> 00:50:36,947 Behold! The Mall of America! 452 00:50:48,606 --> 00:50:55,438 We're gonna spread the good gospel to Mall of America! 453 00:50:55,438 --> 00:51:00,477 Walk away from the product! 454 00:51:08,605 --> 00:51:13,588 Drive the money changers out of the temple! 455 00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:27,785 We're all ending up inside these supermalls! These products are taking over our lives! 456 00:51:28,157 --> 00:51:32,168 Shall I just get up there.... 457 00:51:34,290 --> 00:51:38,078 Stop shopping! 458 00:51:38,662 --> 00:51:45,986 Hallelujah! Changelujah! Let's change! 459 00:51:47,936 --> 00:51:52,648 We're here in the heart of Mall of America (Calling all security...) 460 00:51:52,648 --> 00:51:58,937 to tell you to join us with many other Americans in saving Christmas 461 00:51:58,937 --> 00:52:04,332 FROM THE SHOPOCALYPSE! 462 00:52:09,667 --> 00:52:12,746 You've gotta stop protesting and you're gonna have to leave, OK? 463 00:52:12,746 --> 00:52:15,637 You've gotta walk out of the property, you're not allowed to be on the property. 464 00:52:15,637 --> 00:52:17,907 We're just everywhere, you never known when we're gonna show up. 465 00:52:17,907 --> 00:52:21,137 That's fine but you can't be here today. - You've gotta stop shopping! 466 00:52:21,137 --> 00:52:26,662 Your consumption is getting out of control! Hallelujah, that wasn't nice! 467 00:52:26,662 --> 00:52:29,043 Try it now, it's never too late. 468 00:52:29,043 --> 00:52:37,369 I'm sorry I yelled at you! I get angry at police pretty easily! We'll see each other again somewhere. 469 00:52:56,778 --> 00:53:00,983 It's Texas. Jay from the Dallas Morning News, Amen. 470 00:53:00,983 --> 00:53:05,914 Savitri, would you say hello to Mr. Jay? - Hi there, how are you? 471 00:53:05,914 --> 00:53:14,254 We try to... First of all, we know how hard it is to shop in America without compromising... 472 00:53:14,531 --> 00:53:19,838 these values. You know, I think you can go in any store and be hard-pressed to find a product 473 00:53:19,838 --> 00:53:26,127 that's made in America. But first of all, we look for things that are made in America, 474 00:53:26,127 --> 00:53:31,535 then we try to shop in places where the money we spend will come back into the local communities, 475 00:53:31,535 --> 00:53:35,011 into local economies. 476 00:53:51,342 --> 00:53:54,731 Gordon's Barber shop. 477 00:53:54,731 --> 00:53:57,474 You don't need a haircut! 478 00:53:57,474 --> 00:54:03,934 Hello! We thought the whole store was empty! - Well I'm here, I didn't want to get in your way... 479 00:54:03,934 --> 00:54:12,810 I'm Bill, how are you? What's your name? - Mike. - This is my wife Savitri there. 480 00:54:12,810 --> 00:54:18,305 We just came up from Demoin this morning and we're freezing, cause I just don't have... 481 00:54:18,305 --> 00:54:25,979 I need a good sweater. Can I try it? Then if I don't like it check the quality. - That's all right. This one's wool. 482 00:54:26,226 --> 00:54:33,526 Is this... made in America, or is this too much to ask? - Let me see. Are you gonna take it back off? 483 00:54:33,526 --> 00:54:37,508 - No, I would never take it off. 484 00:54:37,508 --> 00:54:42,953 Made in USA. Yeeeeeeah! Hallelujah! 485 00:54:43,826 --> 00:54:50,388 The gentleman next door said there were Wal-Marts on 20 miles in either direction. 486 00:54:50,388 --> 00:54:57,113 Has that affected your store at all? - Oh yeah. Wal-Mart is killing small town America. Seriously, it is. 487 00:54:57,113 --> 00:55:03,354 Saturday nights everybody came to town, and we'd be busy, be here and be busy 488 00:55:03,354 --> 00:55:08,768 until 11 - 12 o'clock at night! We have two sons and I have not encouraged either one of them 489 00:55:08,768 --> 00:55:13,034 to come back to the store. I mean, there's no future... and that's sad. 490 00:55:13,203 --> 00:55:18,943 When you think of a business that's been in our community for over 125 years, and 491 00:55:18,943 --> 00:55:20,480 it'll be gone. 492 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:27,481 It all goes back to the mindset of the people and it goes back to the Wal-Mart mentality. 493 00:55:27,481 --> 00:55:32,524 We gotta buy this as cheap as we can buy it, we don't care where it's made, 494 00:55:32,524 --> 00:55:39,844 we don't care they're not paying the employees anything. As long as I bought that pair of socks 495 00:55:39,844 --> 00:55:44,534 for 50 cents instead of 2 dollars - I'm happy. 496 00:55:44,534 --> 00:55:48,662 Lots of folks think it's inevitable - they're gonna disappear into the big stores. 497 00:55:48,662 --> 00:55:52,711 We don't have to feel that way. So let's talk to each other, 498 00:55:52,711 --> 00:55:57,971 put our money back in our own community. 499 00:56:08,358 --> 00:56:11,827 As long as I get a good deal it doesn't matter where it's made in. 500 00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:15,264 It's the price. I think everybody just looks for the price. 501 00:56:15,264 --> 00:56:19,073 I doesn't really matter to me where things are made, because I just get them, 502 00:56:19,073 --> 00:56:27,072 I don't really wonder where they're made, because that just takes ....is too mind-boggling for me. 503 00:56:27,072 --> 00:56:32,117 They go to other countries to make cheaper stuff, and then we get jobs in Wal-Marts, K Marts 504 00:56:32,117 --> 00:56:38,854 and Targets, and we get paid less because of course cashiers don't make a lot of money; 505 00:56:38,854 --> 00:56:47,290 stockers don't make a lot of money. But you know, what are we gonna do? 506 00:56:47,505 --> 00:56:49,735 There's nothing we can do! 507 00:56:49,735 --> 00:56:55,437 I can't like boycott everything, cause I won't buy anything...So... 508 00:56:55,437 --> 00:57:00,189 I really don't know what to tell you, I'm sorry. 509 00:57:02,687 --> 00:57:09,820 Well, people have a choice: Are they gonna choose low prices or high wages? 510 00:57:09,820 --> 00:57:16,590 And that's not a choice that I can make for them. 511 00:57:16,590 --> 00:57:24,017 Jesus said: Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick. 512 00:57:24,017 --> 00:57:34,990 There are more people being fed by Wal-Mart than any government in the world. 513 00:57:34,990 --> 00:57:43,998 Globalization doesn't mean that America is losing. It means that America is shifting its locations, 514 00:57:43,998 --> 00:57:55,331 It means maybe that.... the workers are not making as much in salary, but.... 515 00:57:55,331 --> 00:58:01,668 And they're losing insurance, and they're losing retirement benefits, 516 00:58:01,852 --> 00:58:09,251 which always says that.... that nothing is guaranteed anymore. 517 00:58:09,251 --> 00:58:15,611 Been at Wal Mart for 5 years. Started as plain clerk, now I got promoted to invoice clerk. 518 00:58:15,611 --> 00:58:25,945 Well, I put in about 6 days a week, over 70, no, 96 hours, I say a week. 519 00:58:25,945 --> 00:58:32,445 The benefits are good, we have.... 520 00:58:34,568 --> 00:58:39,696 Wait a bit, you got me.... 521 00:58:39,696 --> 00:58:49,724 As far as benefits, as far as the wages that are coming here... you got me here. 522 00:58:50,763 --> 00:58:56,918 If companies are allowed to pit the American worker against desperately poor people in the developing world 523 00:58:56,918 --> 00:59:02,441 who don't have the right to organize, who don't have any form of democracy at all... 524 00:59:02,441 --> 00:59:06,133 You can't compete against slave labor, it's impossible. 525 00:59:06,133 --> 00:59:10,883 Well, how do workers live in Bangladesh that make all Wal-Mart shirts? 526 00:59:10,883 --> 00:59:19,961 They get paid 13 to 17 cents an hour. Well those workers live in utter misery. 527 00:59:19,961 --> 00:59:23,662 Those wages translate into not being able to brush your teeth. 528 00:59:23,662 --> 00:59:28,331 They get up in the morning and brush their teeth with their finger, using ashes from the fire, 529 00:59:28,331 --> 00:59:32,925 because they can't afford a toothbrush. 530 00:59:33,488 --> 00:59:36,309 And there is a certain decency to American people. 531 00:59:36,309 --> 00:59:42,550 When they stand face to face with a 13-year old kid, and that kid tells the American people 532 00:59:42,550 --> 00:59:47,375 that she works 7 days a week, and every other day they work until 3 AM, 533 00:59:47,375 --> 00:59:51,383 they keep them for an 19-and-a-half hour shift... 534 00:59:51,383 --> 00:59:54,998 She got 7 cents an hour sewing clothing for Wall Mart. 535 00:59:54,998 --> 00:59:58,835 And while we were walking away from her, she just blurted out: 536 00:59:58,835 --> 01:00:02,426 'I feel like I'm dying! I'm so sick and exhausted!' 537 01:00:02,426 --> 01:00:06,442 13 years old and she tells us she feels like she's dying. Yet she works for the largest 538 01:00:06,442 --> 01:00:13,058 retail corporation on the face of the Earth, that had 11 bln. dollars of profits. 539 01:00:13,381 --> 01:00:22,764 Wal-Mart led the way and now everyone wants to milk the system for as much as possible. 540 01:00:23,313 --> 01:00:28,111 The biggest fear to the corporations is that young people wake up and start asking 541 01:00:28,111 --> 01:00:32,430 not even negative questions. Just like: 'Wait a second! Let's slow down a bit! 542 01:00:32,430 --> 01:00:34,857 Who made this product?' 543 01:00:34,931 --> 01:00:40,836 I had no idea.... Really... That would definitely cause me not to buy from that place anymore. 544 01:00:40,836 --> 01:00:46,953 Yeah, but this thing is everything is made there. Your shirt was made there. 545 01:00:46,953 --> 01:00:49,953 Like probably a kid made that. 546 01:00:49,953 --> 01:00:57,112 This is Philippines, the one is Vietnam... We could call someone. 547 01:01:01,540 --> 01:01:05,450 Hi, can we have some information on where your clothes are made? 548 01:01:05,450 --> 01:01:10,558 - Our clothes? - Yeah, where they're made? - Where we're located? 549 01:01:10,558 --> 01:01:14,543 No, where your clothes are made. 550 01:01:14,543 --> 01:01:21,505 I asked my manager and she told me we don't know. - Is there a law that you should know? 551 01:01:21,505 --> 01:01:24,147 You could double-check online. 552 01:01:24,147 --> 01:01:26,678 I never even thought about this before. I had no idea. 553 01:01:27,815 --> 01:01:29,644 We can only ask questions. 554 01:01:29,644 --> 01:01:36,119 So these are all laboured , so you can check China Labor Watch, Corpwatch and Labor.net. 555 01:01:36,119 --> 01:01:39,510 So we should go to this 'Responsible Shopper'.org. 556 01:01:39,510 --> 01:01:42,952 Ok, so they have specials about workers in Bangladesh. 557 01:01:42,952 --> 01:01:49,835 Unpaid retirements.... and in some cases even endured beatings by their supervisors? Workers operating the hot glue machines had burn scars and fresh burns on their hands. 558 01:02:09,044 --> 01:02:15,690 We're going to Wal-Mart Headquarters, because Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. 559 01:02:15,690 --> 01:02:21,309 The Walton family are 5 of the top 10 richest people in America, but they pay their workers 560 01:02:21,309 --> 01:02:26,862 very very little. They've gotten that wealthy on the backs of a lot of people. 561 01:02:26,862 --> 01:02:31,608 Lots of places, lots of towns have been devastated by them... 562 01:02:31,608 --> 01:02:36,981 They really destroy the American dream. 563 01:02:36,981 --> 01:02:45,563 We'll park near a graveyard and we'll have a funeral for small-town America. 564 01:02:45,563 --> 01:02:53,586 In that adjoining cemetery are the buried hopes of the American dream. 565 01:02:53,586 --> 01:02:57,841 There is a real vision after Supermalls - 566 01:02:57,841 --> 01:03:06,815 a complex, fun, big American dream in the future, that is not about betrayal. 567 01:03:08,706 --> 01:03:14,795 It's not being cheated. The teenagers making these goods on the other side of the world, 568 01:03:14,795 --> 01:03:21,930 they won't have that kind of life anymore! We will know better than to cooperate in that slavery. 569 01:03:21,930 --> 01:03:26,686 Be able to give a better life for our children. 570 01:03:26,686 --> 01:03:35,099 Can you see that future? We're gonna exorcise Wal-Marts. 571 01:03:52,197 --> 01:03:56,097 It's waking up now.... 572 01:03:58,275 --> 01:04:10,488 I think it's Resurrection time. Let's go to that sign now. Let's take the evil into our bodies now. 573 01:04:10,488 --> 01:04:17,394 Let the anger come out. We started this country with anger. There is a time for anger. 574 01:04:17,394 --> 01:04:22,687 There is a time to exorcise, with millions of Americans in our bodies. 575 01:04:22,687 --> 01:04:29,824 We have millions of Americans in us! 576 01:04:37,935 --> 01:04:43,822 We'll give our own gifts this Christmas! 577 01:05:11,314 --> 01:05:15,183 Well, that was miserable. 578 01:05:15,183 --> 01:05:19,688 Millions of Americans in our bodies.... 579 01:05:19,688 --> 01:05:27,180 I thought that we'll start levitating and fly over Wal-Mart and something might happen. 580 01:05:27,180 --> 01:05:30,024 All I did was dive into the shrub. 581 01:05:30,024 --> 01:05:39,854 I hope nobody here hears us. Those that hear us, they SO don't want to hear us! 582 01:05:39,854 --> 01:05:54,339 You look pretty tired. - I feel I need for what we do to have some impact on someone soon. 583 01:06:21,847 --> 01:06:33,821 The weather's still ... the weather outside is frightening. It's gonna be a long ride. 584 01:06:33,975 --> 01:06:37,977 With convincing song and dance, wailing about the dreaded sins of retail chains 585 01:06:37,977 --> 01:06:43,892 and corporate conglomerates, Bill and his red-robed choir of followers faces questions of sincerity. 586 01:06:43,892 --> 01:06:48,194 She does tell them to stop everyone from shopping but she looks to the choir 587 01:06:48,194 --> 01:06:50,620 and says she was happy he was giving them work. 588 01:06:50,620 --> 01:06:53,985 They're probably all on welfare, she said, so it gives them something to do. 589 01:06:53,985 --> 01:06:57,004 That's incredible! 590 01:07:09,552 --> 01:07:15,637 I don't think people are really stopping their shopping very much. 591 01:07:15,637 --> 01:07:21,274 It's not surprising at all that we got hit by some truck in a hurry to deliver its goods. 592 01:07:21,274 --> 01:07:25,655 The malls are packed, the cars are packed, they look at us like we're crazy. 593 01:07:25,655 --> 01:07:31,214 'Stop shopping?' - Yeah, yeah, stop shopping! 594 01:07:31,358 --> 01:07:37,853 I think that the culture of shopping is so complete now that even just a single interruption 595 01:07:37,961 --> 01:07:46,002 is a kind of success. You really do have to start somewhere. 596 01:08:10,287 --> 01:08:21,621 We live right now in a dark time. Everybody is inside an automobile on the way to a television. 597 01:08:21,621 --> 01:08:30,322 We've got an emergency here! Oh, we can't stop shopping in Dallas! 598 01:08:30,322 --> 01:08:38,830 And there's a thing out there they call Christmas. Why are they throwing so many obstacles 599 01:08:38,830 --> 01:08:45,657 between us and the beginning of their hopes? Hundreds of thousands of grinning celebrities 600 01:08:45,657 --> 01:08:55,747 on labels, saying: 'No, this is a gift, no, this is a reference to a gift, a simulation, a painting of a gift...' 601 01:08:55,747 --> 01:09:06,745 Why the obstacle course? I'm gonna go to Wal-Mart and sing! I'm gonna go to Target and preach! 602 01:09:06,745 --> 01:09:16,210 I'm gonna go to those obstacles and I'm gonna say: "WHY CAN'T I GIVE? WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE?' 603 01:09:16,317 --> 01:09:21,319 Le'ts give a gift! A real gift! 604 01:09:21,319 --> 01:09:27,466 We survive the fire, the Shopocalypse.... 605 01:09:34,442 --> 01:09:39,548 Together we will penetrate the parking lot of the Big Box. We'll go through the electric doors, 606 01:09:39,548 --> 01:09:47,064 past the cash registers, down the aisles to the devil itself! 607 01:09:50,406 --> 01:10:00,423 Oh, Victoria, we know your secret! We don't need a million catalogs to have our sexual fantasies! 608 01:10:00,423 --> 01:10:05,798 Turn the camera off! - Can we take your picture too? Nightmare!!!! 609 01:10:12,559 --> 01:10:17,522 We aren't allowed anywhere near this mall! Yeah! They're probably having 610 01:10:17,522 --> 01:10:19,958 the federal police already waiting. 611 01:10:19,958 --> 01:10:23,440 The guy in the white suit in the white bus. How do I talk to him? 612 01:10:23,440 --> 01:10:30,774 There are 5000 Reverend Billies with white suits. Sometimes a Reverend Jimmy, Reverend Jimmybob, 613 01:10:30,774 --> 01:10:34,382 Reverend Jimmybob Billy.... 614 01:10:34,632 --> 01:10:39,933 We will take the real life that we have within us, that originallity that we've got 615 01:10:39,933 --> 01:10:47,610 that has got nothing to do with products! Amen, hallelujah!...... 616 01:10:57,922 --> 01:11:07,182 Shop consciously this year! We have three days to go! Stop your shopping officer! 617 01:11:08,908 --> 01:11:14,790 We will sit down in the seats before these yellow feet of the most famous corporate logo in the world, 618 01:11:14,790 --> 01:11:22,857 the one that has chosen to steal our children's imaginations for 80 years... 619 01:11:23,964 --> 01:11:29,818 The Devil, MICKEY MOUSE! 620 01:11:30,152 --> 01:11:35,889 You can hear the sounds of this season, right, the Jingle bells, the Christmas carols... 621 01:11:35,889 --> 01:11:40,940 the horns honking as drivers curse at each other... Today promises to be 622 01:11:40,940 --> 01:11:45,583 the mother of all gridlock alert days. 623 01:11:49,468 --> 01:11:54,553 We're so close here, it's the last push. How you keep it together at the end, when you're exhausted, 624 01:11:54,553 --> 01:11:59,051 is really the test. 625 01:12:04,641 --> 01:12:09,750 And if they continue to fornicate, after they know the difference, then they might cause 626 01:12:09,750 --> 01:12:17,389 a 9,2 earthquake to destroy Los Angeles. So a lot of us have to remain virgins 627 01:12:17,389 --> 01:12:19,854 until the day that we die. 628 01:12:19,854 --> 01:12:25,768 Let's not give gifts based on cruelty this year! 629 01:12:25,768 --> 01:12:31,319 I just heard stop shopping.. Isn't it 'Stop shopping' he sings? 630 01:12:31,319 --> 01:12:33,190 I wish I should've heard this before. 631 01:12:33,190 --> 01:12:36,376 Give a gift - out of love this season! 632 01:12:36,376 --> 01:12:42,381 I think it's excellent to bring this message, why people are so much into consumerism, 633 01:12:42,381 --> 01:12:47,081 and we should really realize what is the true meaning of Christmas. 634 01:12:47,081 --> 01:12:53,830 It's more about love for each other, than to be so much into consumerism, buying, buying.... 635 01:12:53,830 --> 01:12:57,775 What would Jesus buy? 636 01:12:58,990 --> 01:13:06,082 I don't think he'd buy anything at a Staples! 637 01:13:21,626 --> 01:13:34,207 We ask the fabulous Creator, the Mother Father God that's not a product! 638 01:13:34,207 --> 01:13:44,399 Come into the soul of this blessed baby, give this child, give its parents the loving power 639 01:13:44,399 --> 01:13:54,004 to not be lost to the mindlessness of consumerism! 640 01:13:58,486 --> 01:14:06,944 Roxanne Elisabeth, let's all sing! 641 01:14:14,070 --> 01:14:27,775 Aaaamen! Bless the child... Aaaaamen! Bless the child....Aaaaamen, amen, amen! 642 01:14:35,541 --> 01:14:42,207 You guys gotta leave. The manager... gotta leave. - Right, we're leaving 643 01:14:42,207 --> 01:14:46,415 We've just baptized a child, did you see? 644 01:15:00,891 --> 01:15:12,863 That felt so good, wow. Did you see that? Wow. That makes it all worth it. 645 01:15:12,863 --> 01:15:18,261 They can take me to jail now. 646 01:15:31,244 --> 01:15:37,583 America is a fascinating country in many ways. Of course, Los Angeles is the dream capital 647 01:15:37,583 --> 01:15:42,774 of the world, this is what we sell here. Disneyland is a perfect example of that. 648 01:15:42,774 --> 01:15:47,895 Disney is entirely fantasy, it is a simulation. Walt Disney built that place 649 01:15:47,895 --> 01:15:54,479 on the perfect little American town where he grew up. 650 01:15:54,479 --> 01:16:01,293 Everything is shiny, everything is beautiful. You'll notice at Disneyland there's no time - 651 01:16:01,386 --> 01:16:10,652 You can either live in the past, you can live in the future, you can never live in the present. 652 01:16:10,652 --> 01:16:18,490 So Disneyland is like following the yellow brick road and end up finding the Wizard of Oz 653 01:16:18,490 --> 01:16:23,181 and suddenly turns out that there's nothing behind the curtain, 654 01:16:23,181 --> 01:16:28,681 except the frenzy that you came from in the first place. 655 01:16:28,681 --> 01:16:37,071 We've lost the real dream and we've replaced it with this artificial dream. 656 01:16:37,071 --> 01:16:44,857 In Disney it's funny that it has this image of a magic kingdom and children's dreams and all the rest, 657 01:16:44,857 --> 01:16:49,049 but even they are completely ruthless. 658 01:16:50,049 --> 01:16:58,258 That's made in China, Disneypress. And I don't think many people in the US may associate 659 01:16:58,258 --> 01:17:04,832 this Disney book with crushed and broken fingers, lacerated hands, broken bones, 660 01:17:04,832 --> 01:17:09,271 even deaths of young women in China. 661 01:17:09,923 --> 01:17:16,014 And the workers of the factory that made this in Sri Lanka tried to organize a union, 662 01:17:16,014 --> 01:17:23,873 and they took the union leader out of the factory and broke his kneecaps. 663 01:17:24,246 --> 01:17:28,524 We don't question things. We don't think about the meaning of life enough. 664 01:17:28,524 --> 01:17:34,575 Christmas should be a time when we take that step back and we think about 665 01:17:34,575 --> 01:17:39,658 what really matters, what's really worth it. 666 01:17:39,658 --> 01:17:47,388 A whole closet full of stuff that we never use is a testament to our dissatisfaction. 667 01:17:47,388 --> 01:17:55,381 So this endless cycle of not being satisfied, more consumption - less satisfaction. 668 01:17:55,381 --> 01:18:00,300 How about less consumption and more satisfaction? 669 01:18:00,300 --> 01:18:06,982 Christmas means the pathetic hope that the coming of one who would just set all things straight, 670 01:18:06,982 --> 01:18:13,372 turn things upside down. Christmas is meant to shake the world up, 671 01:18:13,372 --> 01:18:18,683 not just be an occasion for more shopping. 672 01:18:18,683 --> 01:18:25,190 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, 673 01:18:25,190 --> 01:18:33,190 not even a mouse. The children were nestled all snug in their beds while ads for new doodads 674 01:18:33,190 --> 01:18:39,214 played out in their heads. When the children awoke they spoke all-too honest: 675 01:18:39,214 --> 01:18:46,735 'Did we get what we wanted? What Santa Claus promised?' 676 01:19:04,697 --> 01:19:15,934 We gotta do this. We gotta head over there, to Promised Land. 677 01:19:58,965 --> 01:20:02,256 First church of Brooklyn? We're gospel choir from the First church of Brooklyn. 678 01:20:02,256 --> 01:20:06,694 Pasadena. The first church of Pasadena, and it's Unitarian. 679 01:20:06,694 --> 01:20:11,121 Make sure your wrist watches are synchronized. 680 01:20:11,121 --> 01:20:18,073 Now arriving from a trip around Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom. 681 01:20:19,689 --> 01:20:23,235 Each one of you here today has forever become a part 682 01:20:23,235 --> 01:20:26,937 of the magic known throughout the world as Disneyland. 683 01:20:26,937 --> 01:20:37,050 May you forever treasure this very special Christmas day at the happiest place on Earth! 684 01:20:45,684 --> 01:20:51,402 In just 2 minutes Disneyland will present a Christmas fantasy parade! 685 01:20:51,402 --> 01:20:57,402 This magical place where dreams come true! 686 01:21:03,516 --> 01:21:14,159 Hello everyone, yooohooo! Mickey wants to know you're rooting for him! Go Mickey go! 687 01:21:16,927 --> 01:21:21,006 Go Mickey go! 688 01:21:24,314 --> 01:21:29,834 He did it! He made it to the top! 689 01:21:56,512 --> 01:22:07,718 This is amazing! Christmas time in Disneyland! We got what Santa gave us 690 01:22:07,718 --> 01:22:18,350 and it was what we wanted! We're so lucky! Christmas time on Main street in Disneyland! 691 01:22:18,350 --> 01:22:29,029 But wait a minute! This amazing Main street, it's so prosperous, so beautiful, so healthy! 692 01:22:30,198 --> 01:22:36,971 The main streets across America they're not this prosperous, they're not this amazing! 693 01:22:36,971 --> 01:22:42,811 They're empty, they're shuttered, they're outsourced! 694 01:22:42,811 --> 01:22:52,728 Everything here, Main Street USA, is Made in China! - Sir... - Something's wrong! - Leave now! 695 01:22:52,728 --> 01:23:02,029 Let's take our magic back to America! Let's go shop at home! We can change! 696 01:23:02,029 --> 01:23:05,895 Sir, you need to relax... sir... - Let's slow down our consumption! 697 01:23:05,895 --> 01:23:14,915 Hallelujah! Stop shopping here! We have the magic! The corporations stole Christmas! 698 01:23:14,915 --> 01:23:21,320 We can take it back! - Will you stop or you'll be arrested! - Let's give a real gift! 699 01:23:26,165 --> 01:23:33,000 You're going to jail tonight. I challenge you. Stop Shopping here. 700 01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:38,526 You're going to jail. Merry Christmas! Stop.... 701 01:23:38,941 --> 01:23:44,560 Leave Disneyland! Stop....ah! 702 01:23:53,747 --> 01:23:57,771 And your preacher back there, he's gonna go to jail. Everybody here will go to jail 703 01:23:57,771 --> 01:24:01,937 if you don't stop what you're doing. 704 01:24:10,607 --> 01:24:19,747 What if we did save Christmas from the Shopocalypse? 705 01:24:19,747 --> 01:24:25,726 A billion people pause at the cash register: 'Wait a minute, should I buy this thing? 706 01:24:25,726 --> 01:24:32,907 What is this thing? What do I intend to do with that thing?' 707 01:24:32,907 --> 01:24:46,527 What if they have.... Ohhhh, then we'll have the opportunity to give the greatest gift of all! 708 01:24:46,527 --> 01:24:50,149 We can give the gift of Christmas itself! 709 01:24:50,149 --> 01:24:55,750 Let's pray to the Fabulous Unknown! 710 01:24:55,750 --> 01:25:05,473 Give us the power to recognize the greatest gift of all, when we have the chance to give it. 711 01:25:05,473 --> 01:25:09,565 Cause there've been so many "Tickle-me Elmos" and cabbage-face dolls... 712 01:25:09,565 --> 01:25:17,156 I don't know how to recognize Christmas with all these Christmas decorations! 713 01:25:17,156 --> 01:25:24,366 What would Christmas itself look like, how would you wrap it? 714 01:25:29,487 --> 01:25:37,026 Thank you so much for letting us come together 715 01:25:38,226 --> 01:25:44,802 to look at someone else that you can help, that you can reach out to - 716 01:25:44,802 --> 01:25:48,677 that's what this is all about. 717 01:25:48,677 --> 01:25:57,753 What if we could change Christmas? What if the America we all saw together this December could change, 718 01:25:57,753 --> 01:26:03,066 even a little at Christmas time? 719 01:26:03,066 --> 01:26:11,681 Then we could change the whole year! Spend half as much as you spent last year for Christmas. 720 01:26:11,681 --> 01:26:17,292 Let's buy half as much and give twice as much! 721 01:26:17,292 --> 01:26:23,235 Give my child my time; my loved one my love - a real gift! 722 01:26:23,235 --> 01:26:38,614 Amen! Amen! Amen! Hallelujah! 723 01:26:38,614 --> 01:26:47,557 What was Christmas before the shopping started? 724 01:26:56,640 --> 01:27:06,805 Christmas is the birth of the child we believe will grow up to teach us peace. 725 01:27:06,805 --> 01:27:13,342 You don't have to be a Christian to hope that's true. Amen? - Amen. 726 01:27:13,342 --> 01:27:21,705 Somebody give me a Merry Christmas here. - Merry Christmas! Hallelujah!