Up early, trying to wrap my head around the Earth Day on the 22nd and the Earth Week that surrounds it.
My soul is telling me to set up on the sidewalk outside Chase Bank and preach there for hours, but I don’t know what my physical capabilties or psychological abilities are for such an undertaking. I’m remembering that Jimmy Stewart movie “Mr Smith Goes To Washington” and I’m
remember Cory Booker too.
I’m gonna try to make a pulpit that supports me, with a slanted top and a battery-operated light for preaching at night. And a Billy-cam set up to let people be with me and some kind of screen that shows peoples’ messages to me in real-time, that’ll help me go longer. PICK YOUR DEVIL. My devil would be Jamie Demon and his new skyscraper world HQ here in midtown Manhattan. the $4 billion (“Eco-obscenity!” – The Guardian)67 story fortress, at 270 Park Avenue. The killer of the Paris Climate Agreement with his $185 billion in fossil fuel investments in the 24 months following the signing by the world’s nations. IFeels like our last hopein retrospect) and Jamie Demon has grown the bank to – Forbes says – the largest in the world. Biggerthat Citi, Wells, and B & A combined… Top fossil fuel investor in 9 out of the last 10 years… My feeling is that we need to throw our bodies against this fortress like bully bank in midtown and its proud mass murders. The Global heatwave isn’t as convenient for the media as the bombing of Iran.
The fire and flood and drought in the global south kills how many people? It’s so everywhere that its nowhere in the media’s habits of seeing and reporting. My soul dares me to go and just preach and preach and urge our choir of earth radicals to sing and sing… How do you stop such a huge enterprise, the $4 trillion bank, earning Jamie Demon $3 million each business day in 2025. The new building is the guarantor of climate violence, There is no strategy except going to their door and shouting, handing out the facts to the 10,000 that work there… BEING THE EARTH… “The Earth is in the lobby!”
Love and Action!
Rev. Billy