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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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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126. Consumerism Has Disabled Our “What’s Impor...
The multiplying 200 mph hurricanes and the fatal noonday sun seem to be driving us to a more and more frenzied fetishizing of completely inconsequential things. We are looking away.
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125 The Post-Religious Church of the Fabulous U...
American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism.
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124. A Village of Convicted Activists asks Neil...
Thousands gathered in the amphitheater to gasp - Oh! It’s the song that I listened to when I marched for Peace!
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123. What Has Trash, Blacktop, Cars, and Unnatu...
The three collaborates in Earth Riot Radio are New Yorkers. We risk arrest to preserve neighborhoods. We sing and preach to save the trees, keep racists and homophobes identified and rejected.... and have been doing this for years and years.
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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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