Church Of Stop Shopping At Carnegie Artist Studios

Highline Ballroom Performance 03/02/08

The struggle against eviction by the artists and teachers in the Carnegie Tower studios is our struggle too. Some are in their 80's and 90's, and -- are fellow New Yorkers that indecent? To put these folks out? All New Yorkers are watching what is happening here. The 28 year old stock broker reigns supreme. But in the Church of Stop Evicting we are supporting the "elders from the future" - heroes of a time when the arts flourished in the outlandish neighborliness that the towers were known for. Marlon Brando, Lucille Ball, Leonard Bernstein, Don Shirley, Kate Hepburn, Lee Strassberg... these are the culture-makers that lived and worked in the towers.

We are grateful to all of you, and will resist the Carnegie Hall Corporation's conversion of your homes into telemarketing and computer stations. We will support you because we too had a dream of New York, of coming here to be artists. The shopping by the very rich, the billionaires who need to attach their names to an old monument, will be stopped. We will stop that shopping.

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[Jane102248]

Love you all, Reverend Billy.