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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122 Animals Teach Us the Song of Power
There are animals dreaming the same dreams as you and I -- and a resolve gets us up and walking.
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121. Modern Life Was Supposed To Be This Dazzli...
That is a quote from Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook, who talks with us in this "Best of Earth Riot" show - with legendary Alnoor Ladha, of GreenPeace International, The Rules, and other seminal Earth-saving entities... is a dazzling, shiny thing.
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120. Mockingbirds and John Coltrane Will Save us
Biden, Xi, Putin, Modi, Trump, Sunak, Macron, Scholz and Netanyahu are only organizers of fear, nothing more, and this will kill us all.
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119. IS THIS APOCALYPSE FRIENDLY?
Earth Riot is off the road for a bit. Back in Brooklyn - the Love Earth Tour is in a month-long rest area.
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118. Proposal: We Take Back Our Insides
The con-job of Consumer Society is presented by celebs, products, animations; looking at us from a middle distance frame, a screen, peering into our deep private self.
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117. Loving the Earth in a Mudslide
As we tour the East Coast the Love Earth Tour will hopefully be free of torrential rain and tornadoes.
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116. Freedom Fighting inside Neil Young's Songs
Now we’re in our second week of the Love Earth tour, opening for Neil and Crazy Horse last night in Alabama, Atlanta next.
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115. On the Road with Neil Young
Two shows in San Diego and one in Phoenix so far. Writing from the Love Earth tour bus in Texas, on the edge of New Mexico. Wednesday night we are back on stage in Austin, Texas, near the Austin peace encampment surges. The Stop Shopping Choir gets out of the buses every 400 miles. As I write this, the singers and the director Savitri D have gone to the border bridge with Juarez, in El Paso, to sing and meditate on our neighbors' long walks of hope.
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114. Malcolm, Sinéad, Bernie,
Colin Kaepernick, Muhammad Ali, Neil, Daryl, Yoko, Malcolm, Nina, Martin, Cesar, Greta, Laurie Anderson, AOC, Jane Fonda
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113. Government by Eco-Orgasm
Outright pleasure takes its place in the sun as the consumers finally admit they are bored and exhausted.
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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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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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