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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102. You Don't Have To Love Jesus to Love Your ...
A hard-right Christian punched my lights out while I was preaching about Peace. But evil is dynamic. It moves. Evil flows in a river of happenstance and purpose and pain and laughter. Fearful fascists can be looked in the eye and appealed to. The Devil can change his mind.
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101. NY Mayor Eric Adams is the Black Donald Trump
He recently said “The flood of immigrants coming here - will destroy New York City. And it’s coming to a neighborhood near you.
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100. The Post-Religious Chxrch of the Fabulous ...
American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism.
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99. Neil Young: Love as the Apocalypse Rocks Us
The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but the message is simple-- Love is the only way to survive.
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98. Crazy-On-You Activism for Peace & Planet
This year, we are the Earth.
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97. Oil's Profit Centers: Super Storms and Bombs
You have to spike your mind with science fiction, to get Big Oil's Evil. The super-rich are doing with superstorms and wildfires what the Israelis are doing with American bombs.
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96. EARTH SWALLOWS COP28
This week's "Earth Riot Radio" features Hopi sunrise music, Earth Firster Dave Foreman, Earth News with Savitri D, Ojibwe music of Maureen Noodin, jazz from Fiery Eagles of Justice, and songs of the Stop Shopping Choir.
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95. Historic Huge Peace Marches Vs. Relentless ...
In this week's Earth Riot Radio and our live stage show Sundays the 10th and 17th, (LiveStreamed at https://www.youtube.com/JoespubNY), we explore the intimidating challenge of Making Peace in 2023.
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94. COP 28, Gail Bradbrook, Alnoor Ladha & King...
….and News from the Natural World with Savitri D and The Sixth Extinction with the Stop Shopping Choir, coming to you directly from the Earthchxrch in New York.
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93.They Stopped the Bombing So We Would Go Shop...
Our Earth-Killing system veils the connection between Consumerism and Militarism, a fundamental connection.
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92. WHY ARE WE SHOPPING WHILE WE'RE BOMBING?
Our task for more than 20 years running has been to dramatize Consumerism, the biggest and baddest fundamentalist religion in the US.
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91. The USA Has Not and Will Not Ceasefire
The protection of innocent children and families are enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights that Eleanor Roosevelt read to our nation in the late 40's.
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90. The Earth Canceled Us Last Friday. So Come...
We're caught here in the musical language of the Earth, which can caress us or unleash natural disasters at us, but the Earth is saying something and we need to hear it.
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89. Let Us Now Praise Famous Douchebags
There’s too much fame everywhere, a false fluorescent stain on every face. In this Earth Riot, we recall those who earned good fame. And we badly need a new public figure for our self-induced apocalypse.
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88. Human Violence Vs. Earth Violence
The spectacle and tragedy of war is upon us, history haunting us as old wars flare up again. And then there is the Earth's violence, which is really saying something.
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87. What Is Peace? We are asking the Wind for T...
Openly killing innocent people – this violence goes into our bodies and changes us all. Peace is also in our bodies, and that's the encouraging thing. The Earth puts this Peace in us.
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86. Telling the Truth in Post-Truth Times
The history that we make is converted immediately to conspiracy. Our memories are Facebook pages. You swipe your card, and have a heavy, romantic date with a stranger arranged by a corporation.
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85. Sensible Politics In A World of Complete an...
Many are dedicated to our favorite ideas about improving things, people, and the Earth-- many of us know something is happening that changes everything.
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84. How Big Do The Marches Have To Be?
People with a conscience for human life and the Earth are bursting with emotion, information, artistry, and legal counter-offensives against the fossil fuel industry.
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83. The Widening Gap Between Protest and Revolu...
When will it dawn on us that we must save ourselves? How many Lahainas and Dernas are needed to convince us?
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82. The American Climate Change
But didn't we invent hope? We began as the nation whose name meant "Dream Big."
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81. We Are One Great Natural Disaster!
Our Activism Fails. The exotic and serene and vast landscape, the great bed of love is poisoned by fossil toxins.
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80. The Investor Class Makes The Worst Parents
So many young people come out of their very young years looking the polluter generations in the eye. They make basic things clear about survival and right and wrong.
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79. HUMAN VIOLENCE VS. EARTH VIOLENCE
On one side, human violence: War, Trump, starvation, toxins, etc...On the other side, the more creative violence of the Earth: like a hurricane in the Pacific.
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78. The Earth Crashes into the World
The history-killing heat waves, wars, 100-degree ocean, glacial floods, and on and on in a new normal of horror, makes us want to change completely.
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