Watch… What Would Jesus Buy?….organised by Manchester Film Co-operative at the Kings Arms. This is a documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock of Super-size Me fame so it should be entertaining! Join Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping on a cross-country, holiday revival tour as they exorcise chain store cash registers and discuss the “Stop Shopping Gospel” with families suffering from the “Shopocalypse”.The film takes the viewer into the homes of families as they max out their credit cards to live up to the Consumer Ideal of Christmas, while also telling personal stories from those who remember the holidays as a simpler, less commercial, and more joyful time. Interviews with labor rights experts, historians, and spiritual leaders reveal how the consumerisation of the holiday season over time taught Americans they can only show love for their children by purchasing toys made by other children in overseas sweatshops.
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