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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112. 99 Failed Human Protests. Then the Earth M...
Extinction Rebellion and its spin-offs are a crucial step toward the future. Greta Thunberg was a star and for years her "blah blah blah" speeches will echo like Joan d'Arc waving a sword for the Earth. But if we are honest - we know we are losing.
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111 Start the Ecstatic Enviromania
"Evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious movement of cultural transformation." ---Anne and Paul Ehrlich
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110. When Your Try to Fire the EARTH
The industrial revolution and the enlightenment and the religions and Silicon Valley all tried to do it, and now they deny that they are bursting into flames at their desks.
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Earth Riot Radio Trailer
Join us every week for 29 minutes of ecstatic environmentalism!
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109. Goddamnit Be Kind! The Sequel...
The Dalai Lama sells "Kindness" t-shirts. The Hopi elder says he's only a Pumpkin Clan Girl. The Doves and the Owls sing together and Mercedes Sosa blesses the survivors of the Colonels.
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108. God Damn It, You've got to be Kind!
Kurt Vonnegut's lecture to newborn babies, as he explained to them what they should expect from the life before them, ended with his exhorting them to be kind during their lives.
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107. I Wanna Be a Woke Monster for the Earth!
As the Gulf Stream current changes direction and the jet streams roll over - the breathtaking scale of this Sixth Extinction must be discovered by all of us.
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106. The Sixth Extinction Will Not Be Computerized
What the hell is this age we are living in? Fascists everywhere and dull mono-culture and a (completely justified) feeling of dread. The Sixth Extinction is underway.
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105: Defiant Kindness at Earthchxrch
Sharing freedom road, through monsoons and mudslides and flash floods.
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104. We Have Nothing To Fear But Trump Imitators
The End of the World makes the City of Lady Liberty mimic the Orange One.
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103. LADY LIBERTY VS. DONALD TRUMP AND ERIC ADAMS
The fearful hate retreats in the face of the vision of freedom for all, especially for the people of the global south who have suffered at the hands of White Nationalist Neo-Liberal Capitalism.
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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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