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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151. The Only Effective Climate Activist Is THE...
How Do We Feel? Immersed In Worldwide Confusion? None of our activism is working. The hottest 19 months in the last 100,000 years are the last 19 months. How do we talk to the only activist about what to do?
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150. Reverend Billy’s New Year’s Message
2024. What the Hell happened? This was the year that rushed up at us like a freak storm. This year, all the eco-systems were fully committed to the Sixth Extinction, and so are we.
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149. Christmas Causes Climate Change and Other ...
Are you unable to listen to looping Mariah Carey and watch people drag dying trees to their living rooms while the bombs fall on families? Christmas is tawdry and reprehensible.
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148. Paul Watson is Free. But so is Trump.
And we are free to invent our lives regardless of the oppressive fascist. And we will have to now.
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147. REVOLUTION. It's not on the Market.
No choice now. And we always thought that we would have choices. The Superstorm is here. It is the entire horizon, it is a stray thought. The Earth is ending this phase of life.
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146. FREE CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON! To Defend the W...
The collective hallucination is about to be unleashed. Somehow the timing of Captain Paul Watson’s arrest fits the super-storm of jackboot fantasy sweeping the land and sea.
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145. Can We Be Strange Enough To Change Enough?
What do need to do? The driller-killers are ready with their militarized police and corrupt courts. Consumerism entices us into hundreds of everyday Earth-poisoning habits.
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144. EARTH Beats TRUMP in a Landslide
Trump takes over the Government. The Earth takes over the Planet!
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143 Trump Returns? The Sixth Extinction Will Ta...
The Sixth Extinction is the era we are living through now. How apropo that we - in the blindest of all historical moments - we don't even notice.
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142. The Only Way Back to a Normal Life
The only way back to a normal life is through radical change.
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141. Reporting a Transformative Happy Rage in o...
The Stop Shopping Choir and their Earth-loving comedian preacher, that would be me, found an energy-releasing zeitgeist moment in show after show...
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140. Dispatches From the Fabulous Unknown
Currently we're moving through the UK with the Fabulous Unknown on our tails, or perhaps we are chasing it--searching, preaching, on and on into the sixth extinction.
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139. The voice in the eye of Helene is telling ...
People Kill Earth. People Kill People. Same. Earth Saves People. People Save People. Same. Attention activists! If we know that we are the Earth then we are much more powerful in our defense of Earth. We must know Helene in a way that the climatologists don't. Helene is telling us in this catastrophic speech with breath so strong that fenceposts fly over the river: "Study my wind. Study my screaming wind."
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138. Flying Over Borders, Flying Through the Fear
There are moments when it is clear that loving the Earth is loving the Other and the Other is ourselves and all of us and our fear must go away, darkened back into history.
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137. Peace Is Always Possible, what?
But I'm in the middle of a battle! I'm being shot at and I'm shooting. Peace is possible?
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136. The Night Forest Sings with Radical Activism
Singing together as Earth-defenders provides support for acts of what Savitri D from the Church of Stop Shopping calls “collective transformation and generous invitation.”
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135. SINGING SONGS Stops Big Oil's Toxins, Acne...
As the Stop Shopping Choir prepares its songs for the Society of Ethical Culture and for MORE ART'S 20th Anniversary in NYC's old speaker's corner - Union Square, and then the Earthchxrch singers stage nine shows in England in October, we have to ask: "Does Culture Have Power?"
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134. WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE THING THEY WARNED...
Listen with a wet towel over your head, and a realistic attitude about the possibility of surviving to the end of the 29 minute show. This past July was the hottest month in 100,000 years...
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133. Computer-modeling the Climate is the Defi...
We all knew in our emotional life that this day would come. Mass death and the sound of cosmic laughter. We believed that we have machines that can tell us what is happening to Humanity... but that belief has finally met its match, which is: Reality. We have not emerged from the Virtual Reality of "product life" quickly enough.
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132. Who's Afraid of the 6th Extinction?
When will we notice that the Earth is a living being, a life making life, now creating this extreme evolutionary wave to deal with us.
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131. The Accelerating Apocalypse and My 15 Minutes
A couple weeks back a full-page feature about our activism and our performance in the Earthchxrch appeared in the front section of the New York Times.
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130. The Day that ACTUAL Ate VIRTUAL Alive
Stories have opposing characters or ideas. The conflict advances the story. Our current plot goes like this: The Virtual Reality of consumer culture versus the Actual Reality that receives VR's toxins.
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129. 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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128.The Hope Deep in Funky Hopelessness
Our hopelessness is fixed in us by the cheerful depression of Consumerism. But that system is crashing as the Earth's evolution empowers new life on its worldwide scale.
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127. History Slows Down and Waits for Change
Is it a slowdown or is culture going so fast that we live in a deep vibrating boredom. Something's gotta give, and we bet it's the climate apocalypse arriving in a new form, like five hurricanes at once.
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