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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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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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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