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Reverend Billy  

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  • Reverend Billy is a persona created by the New York–based performance artist Bill Talen. Wearing a jacket and a fake clerical collar, Talen parodies the preaching practices of mass media evangelicals to critique issues of consumer culture, labor rights, and urban transformation under advanced capitalism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Reverend Billy]

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