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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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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17: Love’s Destruction is a Profit Center
Much of the violence raining down is brought to you by the conscious politics of the rich. Drunk billionaires in Davos knew about Uvalde and Buffalo and Ames and all of it… years ago. They are seeing their profits rise in the horror.
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16: Rewind 3 months, Johnny & Amber Are About T...
Slaughter slaughter everywhere. Pre-K's blown apart by psycho-super-powers or by the boy next door. Roe vs. Wade, Joe vs. Vlad.
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15: No Last Rites for the Old Oak Tree
s the physical environment asserts its power, we hunger for the Earth as it really was and may someday be again. But as the children in the windows will learn, to remember the Earth is to remember the crime.
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14: Little Czar's Oily Crypto Ego Crash
Putin drilled for oil and got a laughing world. He's the comic who warms up the crowd for the big act: the Sixth Extinction.
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13: SING TREE JAIL SING TREE JAIL SING
Setting out a net to catch a new activism for the Earth, with a song cycle of three repeating tasks, singing in the Earth Church, in the endangered forest, and then in jail... and repeat.
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12: As Extinction Comes, How Radical Do the Yo...
The youth among the Earth defenders, from tweeners to college debtors, are fierce like the folks in Earth First and Redwood Summer.
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11: Escape From the Promised Land Begins With a...
You have to be careful with dreams of liberation. We've gotten ourselves deep into a revolution gone wrong, with the Earth over-turning our ideas of freedom with the Sixth Extinction.
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10: What Doesn't Kill Us, Makes Us Watch
Now, we know we must reach out to our old enemy, the Earth!
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9: Our Last Words? Take Us to the EARTH CHURCH!
It's all strange but it isn't too strange until it's actually killing us and OH -- RIGHT -- IT ACTUALLY IS KILLING US. We keep forgetting the Extinction is serious.
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8. Many Strangers Suddenly Necking
Many Strangers Suddenly Necking
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7. Sex, Lies and Glyphosate
The Reverend must refresh his soul with the Exalted Rite of Sacred Embarrassment. He invades the offices of the professionals who spray the forests with poisons like children playing with guns.
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BONUS: Full Conversation with Award Winning En...
Rev. Billy talks with John R. Platt, editor of The Revelator and award-winning environmental journalist.
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6. The Naked Environmentalist
Follow this message and find out where it goes. The words are: “You are being poisoned. Mass death is accelerating from putting carbon in the atmosphere. You can no longer live your life as planned.”
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BONUS: Full Conversation w/ International Peac...
Rev. Billy talks with international peace activists Medea Benjamin & Tighe Barry
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5. Planet Earth Assassinates Putin!
We continue to pretend that the Earth is not a conscious force; that it is not creating the events of our lives -- from a baby's first breath to the melting of the Himalayas.
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BONUS: Full Conversation with Grammy Nominated...
Billy talks with Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and sustainable fashion designer Angela McCluskey.
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4. 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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