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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41. Black Friday, Earthalujah Sunday
The rapacious shopping economy has been our devil for 20 years in the Church of Stop Shopping. But that doesn't matter.
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40: How To Handle COP27: Despair, Panic & Cunning
The investor class is not just callous and probably criminal. They seem to have no idea what Justice means.
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39: A Forest Lets Out the Liberators in Jails
Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila...
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38: Whatever it Takes to Break the Trance
The riddle of our time is, "How can we be passive in the face of the Earth's crisis?" The answer is, we are in a trance state induced by extreme Consumerism.
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80: Gratitude to the Earth Kills the Carbon-Hea...
How do we start actions over?
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37. Throw Tomato Soup at The Masterpiece
And don't forget to glue yourself to the museum wall.
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36: Radical Love
An expression of gratitude, with a heart that feels like the thousands grateful on that cloudy day in D.C. when Angela Davis spoke at the Women's March.
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35: Defend the Earth Like the Women of Iran
Is there a human expression that gives the meaning of the melting of the Himalayas, the ocean currents changing direction, the wave of silence called the Sixth Extinction?
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34: Be The Storm! Wet'suwet'en Land Protectors
The Earth is guiding our new politics as we connect with the incredible fight of Wet'suwet'en Protectors. Like the atmosphere, all is in flow, causing and receiving, crossing borders and stopping pipelines, like wolves, like humans. Be the storm!
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33: We Is a Community. They Is a Crowd
We as a community can never be defeated
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32: Zombies Cut Down 1000 Trees (re-air)
Maybe weaponizing trees to kill realtors, bankers, pavers and pesticide-makers.... is a bit low-brow for the trees. But forgive my fantasy.
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31: Can't Translate The Wildness
We can't catch up the Earth no matter how hard we try
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30: Labor Works for The Earth- Chris Smalls!
The young working class activists pulled fellow souls out of the robots and conveyor belts into the arms of community power.
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29: Lie So Big, Truth So Real
To sell the simple truth is now, in 2022, to be a radical revolutionary.
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28: Gift of the Fabulous Unknown
We environmentalists must move our point of view from the center of human power to a point in outer space, back somewhere in the early days of the big bang. Then maybe we can overpower these gods that make poisoning the Earth sensible.
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27: Nature Kills the Censors with Sex
As the big institutions try to spread their life sentences, they are stopped by love. It’s the same old story and that old story of erotic romance is making a comeback as the libraries are burned down by fear of sex and foreigners. The books are in our bodies and we dance away.
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26: Many Strangers Suddenly Necking REVISITED
Most of us know how we will be required to be far more radical than we have been, and very soon. We have quietly agreed with ourselves that we will try to work with the complete collapse of this thing called civilization.
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25: Thank You James Lovelock, Gaia Radicalizes Us
The basis for Earth Defenders -- if we do succeed and find a role in this 6th Extinction -- is because James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis updated the God/ Goddess gaia.
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24: Fire Your God and Pray to the Earth
Be grateful, even if our time is up. Gratitude we should have expressed long ago can be concentrated in a message to the forests that are still standing.
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23: The Earth Cancels the Environmental Movement
Our activism for the Earth has been so ineffective that we begin to wonder if we know where we live.
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22: Radical Forgiveness
All of us Earth activists are fighting the extinction blues...Today let's consider FORGIVENESS.
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21: Violent Supremes: "Ready? DIE!"
We are recovering from "The Week from Hell" as the Supremes came in with their fearful decisions.
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20. The Earth Is A Mystic Sex-Crazed Killer
Official institutions are boggled by the Earth's behavior and want to put the planet in prison.
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19. Juneteenth Two Years Later
How are we doing? George Floyd's murder on May 25 of 2020 and the Black Lives Matter summer of rallying and marching has changed our world forever.
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18: We Got to Be Impossible (to understand)
We are faced with the Earth's great extinction. All around us society is united in denying that it is happening. Even the environmental movement hesitates to tell the truth.
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