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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77. We Are Either For The Earth Or Against The ...
And this applies to the climate crisis, too. Only revolution can make peace. Real change always involves the sacrifice of life.
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76. Frank Zappa Said, “Annoy Them A Little”. We...
But we are looking for a kind of conversation in public space that is as regular and full or neighborly affection as it is, in 2023 at least, a revolution in communication.
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75. You have a Golden Future in the Field of Tr...
It is where Human and Earth Rights are the same. Walking into the property of power and declaring your freedom.
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74. A Thousand Natural Disasters Acting As One,...
The passivity of human beings in the face of the fossil killing fields... that is the riddle of our age. If we go ahead with our current shrug of the shoulders, we are offering up our children to early death. Why?
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73. Your Hate is Like a Heatwave
Here at the hottest day in history is MAGA Republicans fear making violence directly, as surely as their friends the NRA encourage mass shootings.
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72. The Climatocalypse Killed The Weather Channel
All the words we should have used to explain to one another the deadly importance of the climate crisis are Consumerized.
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71. A Very Different Emotion Far, Far Beyond Anger
Things happen in the US that our words don't reach. We shout, scream, shoot bullets but none of what we do is a realistic response to the Earth's crisis.
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70. Rockin' in the Natural World
Consumerized Capitalism is designed to multiply our product choices while taking away from us the one choice that matters.
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69. Climate Activists Like Demon Possessed
What kind of people would we be, if we were so powerful that we successfully defended the Earth?
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68. Earth is the Only Celebrity That Matters.
History was made by men triumphing over nature. Now the Earth makes history.
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67: Ghost Wind
Invite us to the Revolution
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66. 2 Spirits Now Among Us: John Sims & Hamish...
These two artists passed on within days of one another last December, and it seems like yesterday. They were dear friends of the Church of Stop Shopping.
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65. The Walls Come Tumblin’ Down
Our action against fossil fuel violence is not more violence - but the world of cultural resistance is still open to us. It is not exhausted.
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64. How To See Through Eyes of the Great Unknown
Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir come to Joe's Pub on May 7 & 14 at 4pm, JoesPub.com/tickets. It's three blocks from where Jordon Neely was murdered.
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63. Sing Growl Climate Chaos Howl
The violence is rolling through our lives like unknowable deadly weather.
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62. Living Virtually Is Actually Killing Us
We have Actual Reality and we have a lot of Virtual Reality in this episode too...
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61. 1st Anniversary of the EarthChxrch, Our Eas...
We bring humor and music and a kind of DIY spirituality to our defense of the Earth.
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60. Reverend Billy’s Passover & Easter Message
Anne and Paul Ehrlich wrote: “Evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious transformation of cultural values.”
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59. Apple’s ‘New Reality’ Is Breeding Us With A...
For the Earth: We Must Boycott the ‘New Reality’ that the world’s most valuable company says will replace the iPhone.
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58. Colonizing the Super Storm. Impossible?
If the Earth is intelligent— if the Gaia Theory is true, then she wouldn't want to live in the role of every human beings' "Other", and neither would I.
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57. Take a Page from "The Fabulous Unknown 4 Du...
The Fabulous Unknown would be a better description of the natural world than the “great outdoors”.
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56. Angela Davis Speaks of Beauty and Justice
The surviving warrior, Angela Davis, speaks with young, gifted and black students in Toni Morrison's hometown.
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55. Six Seconds of Sexy TikTok Activism
If I had an indigenous imagination (maybe even a little part of mind) and I was dedicated to defending the Earth but I was exposed 8 hours a day to TikTok, would my activism survive?
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54. Crying All The Way To the Bank
Consumerism micro-manages our bodies. Retail spaces require that we walk/reach/grab and return to the cash register, all surveilled and monitored by security.
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53. The Earth's Like a Sensual Human: Non-Binar...
Most of us back away from divisive fear. We do that instinctively. While most of us Earth-defenders are closer to the people called "Woke" by the Right, it's also true that most of us don't like to point fingers and accuse. But let the Earth show the way...
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