Reverend Billy Vs. The Robobee

The Stop Shopping Choir Vs. Godsanto

Our campaign for Honey Bees started this week with a nonviolent, but loud action at Harvard University.

Scientists at the Micro Robotic Lab at Harvard are creating the ROBOBEE, the honey bee’s proposed drone replacement. We visited there yesterday, directed of course by Savitri D, and we wore the wardrobe and bees she designed. The Queen Bee’s dress, under all the filagree, is from the Paris designer “Chloe” – so you can’t say activism is entirely divorced from fashion (Savitri discovered the glowing thing in a vintage shop in Soho.)

The scientists listened to song and sermon. No police showed up. This was a world of pure academic gentility. We must have been like an apparition to them. We were in their building for about 45 minutes, handing out information and conversing after our vocalizing subsided. They simply haven’t thought through what they are doing, as far as we can discern. They are being paid very well to replace a magical animal being killed off by Monsanto and Bayer. They are making possible a factory farm future, with all the birds and bees killed off for not contributing to the eco-system of high profits. “You are preparing us for an unlivable future.” – the choir’s repeated phrase.

Our opening at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York City is now 10 days off. Our activism gives us something to perform about. Let it be said that we sang our HoneyBee anthem in the Micro Robotics Lab before we stepped on the Public stage. And may the bees, the miraculous bees of this Earth, buzz on!

Enjoy and share these three articles about our campaign published in the last 48 hours.

Village Voice: Here’s What It Looks Like When Reverend Billy and His Choir Visit a Harvard Drone Lab to Cast Out the Demons
Harvard Crimson: Protesters Sing Honeybeelujah Against Robobees
Truthout/Buzzflash Put the Move in the Movement by Reverend Billy Talen

If you want to support our next performances in contested public spaces (think Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta), will you please donate to our non-profit organization? Our performances outside the Public Theater are funded by you. We are very grateful for any change you can spare for us and the Earth movement.

Earthalujah!

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir

P.S. We are grateful for our companion organization, The Center for Biological Diversity.