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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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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52. Savitri D, Joan Baez, Sunder Ganglani, Leil...
Tortuguita Imagination Courage THELIVINGFOREST. Death Sex Mutation 6TH EXTINCTION. Sky Unity Singing JUSTICE.
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51. Love Earth Race Justice Music Liberation
Walk in the canyon of urban pressure and now it's not just concrete and pavement, its sky and the depths.
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50: Singing "Tortuguita Presente" in Chase Bank
Freedom songs are basic to revolutionary change, to social movements. There never was radical social change that took place in silence.
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49. The Earth Is Why We Scream
Championship football games, screaming dying deer, Stanley shouting for Stella. The Earth is all we hear.
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48. After Consumerism, the Deluge
We can joke and cry about it, and find the usual climate criminals in it, but the suffering is the thing. Our prayers and thoughts are with our friends and loved ones in California.
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47: Thank You James Lovelock, Gaia Radicalizes ...
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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46. Net Zero Sex by 2050
Where did the future go? It feels like the future no longer waits beyond the next moment.
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45. Deep Love, Fabulous Unknown
Getting comfortable with the natural world is a good thing to do for the holidays.
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44. John Sims & Hamish Kilgour: Music Wizards
If life in these times is a Dangerous Ride then some of us have the instinct to take it fast with the Radio Loud.
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43. The New McCarthyism Vs. Radical Beauty
Emerging from violent censorship, Angela Davis' teaching and Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" lead off our new effort at "Green Showbiz". These women’s beliefs in Peace and Freedom and Beauty and Community and the Earth ...These are flight paths to Intersectional Compassion.
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42. My Father Knew A World War When He Saw it
The evil of Hitler and Hirohito was clear. In 2022 the investor class is openly reaping profits from toxic gasses and it is killing everyone. Every day the celebrity billionaires are in the news, unchallenged.
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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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