Earth Riot Radio
Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue -- the planet’s Sixth Extinction. Made by "Earth-loving urban activists" from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring “News From the Natural World,” a weekly gathering of climate change’s latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
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16: Amazon River Vs. Amazon Corporation
The dirtiest American retail company with its 93 jets and thousands of delivery trucks, and its dumping of 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each week, meets its match. Its namesake, the great river, is not amused.
29 min
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15: Burning with the Justice Ghost
Lessons for environmentalists from Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and Standing Rock.
29 min
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14: Feels like a Natural Radical World
We see friends and lovers in the street life of Black Lives Matter. Justice expressed by so many bodies is a forest of love and anger. The city becomes a natural radical world.
29 min
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13: A Murder Makes Love You Can't Buy
Remembering the public suffocation of Eric Garner 6 years ago.
29 min
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12: Apocalypse and Sexual Fear
The Sixth Extinction is real, but we've bailed out of Eden so many times...
29 min
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11: After Black Lives Matter
The five weeks that shook the world - keep on shaking.
28 min
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10: The Jolt of Peace
Everything is changing around us. What was ever this thrilling? Independence? Rock n Roll? Justice is here. Black Lives Matter.
29 min
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9: Black Lives Matter
The day of George Floyd's memorial service. Who can breathe?
29 min
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8: The Day That We Broke Into Public Space
Lock down the big institutions that ruined our lives, as we open our doors and let the sunshine in.
29 min
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7: Cheering For Care-Givers Is the Answer
Billy can’t stop the orange bleeding, then thanks the care-giver who lives downstairs.
29 min
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6: The End of the World
Wall Street screams. They want us back. The White House pleads. Return! Come back to fear! Fear!
29 min
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5: We Will Survive the Promised Land
“Some call it death, some call it life, makes us keep on dancing day and night.”
21 min
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4: Breaking Into Public Space
Billy plants a rainbow gay-pride flag at the back door of a preacher who wants all genders different from his own to burn in Hell. Billy goes to jail.
18 min
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3: Extinction Comes Knocking
The Earth is a conscious living being. What does that mean? Billy hallucinates many answers.
24 min
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2: The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized
Billy now in lockdown, starts hearing voices. Is the virus taking over the preaching?
17 min
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1: The Shopocalypse Bites The Apple
First days of the Coronavirus in New York, Billy tries to get his memory back. Where has he been? Who has he been with?
26 min