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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Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community. We are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists. The Earth Wants YOU! is their podcast hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D. Earthalujah! contact: [email protected]
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We are singing a resistance song given to us by the screaming superstorm wind. The survivors among us are walking toward evolution in a new physical world. The 28 months of the global heat wave changes everything everywhere. The censoring of information in the consumerized West ("bad weather," "natural disasters") can not stop the screaming wind, t…
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No, it's a worldwide uprising. But I'm speaking to my home country just now - addressing the persistent mental disease of Consumerism. This passivity! It's over. We have a history of rising up. It's time to be radical freedom-fighters again. We've done it before. Our gas and oil gov't kills how many thousands of us each month with heat, storm, wild…
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The parallel disasters of Global Heatwave and Human War have a positive side, although it feels farther away - you have to imagine it, like stepping into Leonard's reality: "The superstorms are messages from Mother Earth." Positive view: The accelerating death and life of the Sixth Mass Evolution is parallel to a Revolution against Consumerist Capi…
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The eight of us now in Toronto, our sixth city. The shows are going wonderfully. The essence of our message to the 80,000 people we've shouted and preached at so far: the 26 month global heatwave is a "message from Mother Earth", as Leonard Peltier told us. The Earth is our lead activist. Question: Can we be strange enough to change enough to escap…
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In our interview, Leonard says, "Storms are communication from Mother Earth." He talks with energy and insight, and love, after half a century in political prison. I'm typing here on the bus with seven of us, the Stop Shopping Choir with the Detroit show tomorrow, the next show in the "love earth tour" with Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. Neil si…
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Savitri D and Reverend Billy in a broad ranging conversation with Indigenous activist and artist Leonard Peltier. You can learn more about Leonard Peltier and see his art HERE This episode of Earth Riot Radio premiered Aug 9 on WBAI 99.5 FM Radio For The People in New York City. Thanks to Charris Ford and Peter Marks. Special editing by Debbie Daug…
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We have the sensation that a general gravity is pulling us toward a highway. Ashtrays and lamps and pillows are sliding in the direction of the Hollywood Bowl. Soon we are being pulled down a special kind of highway that has truckstops and rest areas. When we stop, we turn, and to our astonishment, there are huge crowds that look at us as they wait…
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The Beautiful View that Made Me Bleed from the Eyes
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The consumer class in many parts of the world - certainly in the USA - has been normalized so thoroughly into a life that is actually suicidal, that to survive at all will mean inventing an alternative science fiction-like life, a completely strange full-scale world. The reality of our physical environment is now seen mostly as a relentless stream …
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There was a bare hand that reached out of the electric swamp of my city, and I clasped the fingers and we grasped each other and gasped and moaned and we've been together ever since. And now the city is changing because it turns out many of us have found the hand that reaches for love, and the masked police and the saturation advertising and all th…
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Leonard Peltier, Our Teacher, Free and Holding the Mic
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Forty-nine years a political prisoner, now back in his home at Turtle Mountain. In this time of lies in a confusing echo-chamber, we have the clarity of this one man. He helps us think straight. Leonard Peltier gives us all our strongest freedom, with his walking free.By Reverend Billy and Savitri D
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The radio show is a freewheeling escapade this week. We're evolving lately toward a simpler message, like when AOC screams, "In the street! In the street!" Our editor Jason Candler is building these wild symphonies out of voices that cut through from the Earth. The wild animals make good radio and teach me how to preach. They give us their far-seei…
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We look into a friend’s eye. What is really there? Look deeply, checking for virtualities, pixels, AI. Then ask the friend to save your life. 90 corporate jets, belonging to friends of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, are landing in Venice for the wedding. They might lose their way and fly to Gaza, where children wait on the runways, surround the pla…
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We will all have the same feeling at the same time. It’s a GOOD feeling. And you will hear people say, “I've felt this way before, but I can’t place it.” We will be affectionate with objects that are nearby, like a house or a tree. Ordinary things will be fascinating. We will feel a mild responsibility for everything. We will be aware of large pres…
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We wake up every morning in this caving-in world, and we ask, “What Can I Do To Help?” And we look for defensive measures against the take-over by white nationalist gangsters. The NO KINGS marches of last Saturday roused our belief that there are alternatives everywhere: political, legal, economic…. And we can put that euphoria to good use. But THE…
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We Are In For a Very Warm Welcome From Global Warming
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You'd have to be, as Monty Python said, "DOWNRIGHT DAFT!" to feel welcomed by last January, the hottest January in 140 centuries. And 2025, so far, has offered floods and fires everywhere. Welcome to a 2-year-old global heatwave that could only be ignored by a dictator bully traumatized by a nightmare father and a variety-pack of humiliations in ea…
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The Stop Shopping Choir is in full-throated radical voice. Savitri D, our leader, can be anywhere in the hall, up on the balcony, pulling pianists out of the kitchen, marching the singers up the aisle toward the nine songs of liberation from fascism. We are crafting songs and screams to fit the architecture of our new home, which is historically be…
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Like the Hugh Masekela song “Bring Him Back Home,” which helped free Nelson Mandela from 27 years in prison, the Earth needs to be loved and returned to the forefront of our personal lives, our civic decisions, and our hope for Peace. Give the Earth so much Love that the imagination of our home becomes where we live again. With the Earth as our lea…
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Facing the Door with the Sign that Reads WOKE
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One day, exhausted by sanitized Democrats, we push on that door that Trump points to with his performance of terror. The door swings open, and there before us is a valley full of puzzles, thighs, wa wa pedals, endangered swamp birds, discarded religions, executives in cages… This is chaos. Anything can happen. We move there and live in bliss. WOKEL…
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Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank, Public Enemy #1
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When we go into the environment where the toxic investments are prepared, and we begin to sing, and invite the bankers to find a way out of the carbon money trap, we feel their sadness. You can't delete the fire and flood; you can't delete whole cities bursting into flames. You walk around in your suit and haircut in the biggest bank in America. Yo…
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ARE WE STRANGE ENOUGH TO CHANGE ENOUGH???
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We can only defeat CLIMATE CHANGE ON PURPOSE and RACIST-WARS-EVERYWHERE-ALL-THE-TIME - if we are a lot weirder than our current crop of criminal clowns. There's a good reason that Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, and Ursula Le Guin are so popular. Science fiction can glimpse a kind of moral life so strong it can overthrow the ethno-state. The nonfic…
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Just a spoonful of shopping makes the bombs go down the bombs go down the bombs go down. War is an active loss of our memory of the Earth. The pilots and crew of bombers are sighting the ordinance into the side of the Earth and losing their Earth Love. But you and I paying for it? What are we losing? Consumerism's wars have saturation advertising o…
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Trump’s 2nd Inaugural address, quoted liberally in this episode, is a master class in sustained paranoid surrealism. But while he can run, he can’t hide — from the Earth. With the global heatwave in its 24th month, with the worldwide storms and floods and wildfires and starvation and wars….Trump is a comedian falling through space. There will be a …
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The Global Heatwave Will Be Cooled By Peace
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Trump takes over the government. The Earth takes the planet. We join the Earth. Taking risks, stepping out, speaking up. Marching in the ultimate parade. THE EARTH IS ALIVE. Everything we have in us—our resistance, our strength—is given to us by the Earth and is now called forth by the living Earth. She will raise us up to our best selves. The Eart…
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Saturday, April 5th: The Gift of 13,000 Protests
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Saturday, did we walk back the Greatness? Saturday, did we march with simple love that the nation saw from a window? Saturday, did 50-person villages walk alongside the beautiful strangers who have been walking for months? Saturday, did our whisper reach the stranded youth facing another false American war? Saturday, did we walk out of the virtual …
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Five Heroes Who Gave Their All Before Trump
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We're not ready for revolution talk, with citizen peace activists being ICEd from their homes. We're in shock. We're staring at Trump. What can we do? The violence against people and the Earth will be stopped. And we, the people, will end it. How? This week on Earth Riot Radio, we remember five heroes who faced the modern corruption of the USA, and…
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On the Occasion of Savitri D's Birthday. We get lots of thanks for her direction of the StopShopping Church performances, and - The News from the Natural World, the heart of Earth Riot. She's our leader as we look for a new home for our chxrch, and embark on new music. This past Sunday, at our rehearsal, the choir sang the entire time. What I mean …
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Corporations Aren't Ever Called Terrorists
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The corporation isn't pulled from its home and flown to an unknown prison down South. The corporation has more rights than we do. Only the individual who finds a way to be a corporation will have the protection of the Constitution. Only the individual who can masquerade as a crowd of people obediently looking up at their logo... only that individua…
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Fear is hardening into a major force in the United States. But before Trump it was corporations that put fear in the display window. Fear is the new hot product. And our new cryptocurrency is ATTENTION. We can’t look away from the latest hardship or arrest - that’s how we buy this product. Our attention is always hunted by Trump and his team on a d…
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When there's so much love in me that we cross the property line of a climate criminal called JPMorgan... we know that behind the desks, there is love to light up inside Chase. It took 9 weeks. all the way into March, to figure out a new year's resolution for the Stop Shopping Chxrch. It's the promise that we keep singing: "Can we be Strange Enough …
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How many personality disorders does it take to cancel compassion on a worldwide scale? Is there a permaculture instruction manual that can help us rewild western culture? Is there a practical solution to large-scale soul-lessness? Can we move against the White Nationalist Christian Capitalism with armies of cuddly love, erotic atmospheric rivers? O…
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Like the survivors of Hurricane Helene, we are bombarded with conspiracy theories, with the news that the super storms are brought to life in test tubes by leftist mad scientists. We know it's time to move into the subway. You have to wonder. Folks are not responding to climate change. And if, like the Blue Ridge people who drowned in a year's wort…
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156. Superbowl that matters: Trump Vs. The Earth
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Trump bulldozes your home then withdraws. Your recovery: You start over with shock and stillness. You achieve total aloneness. Disorientation that you can own. You lose yourself, like grieving for a friend who set you free. Then turn to the Earth, who knows replenishment and love. The warmth that comes from infinite complexity like a forest floor, …
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155. Climate Death Executives Are Nice Guys
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They put the Con in Conspiracy. They blame the Earth for Cannibal Capitalism. Most investor class people, moving their money mindlessly around from fossil fuel to crypto to hedge — they don’t care what they buy and sell. They then disappear into the forested suburbs, nowhere land of the nowhere man. They hide in the Earth’s beauty. They are nice gu…
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154. LA Fire, Helene, NOLA Snow: You Still Don't Believe?
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Wounded Knee, Palestine, Jordan Neely, Trans folx banned from the army, #metoo y Un Violador en Tu Camino, and - Palestine. The freedom-fighters always believed. How could the many lives sacrificed in resistance not be enough to reveal to all of us - the big life that we are all a part of, the Earth? Are the liar politicians & racist cops & the fos…
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153. The Disaster-maker Wonders What We Will Do
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Something is broken in the relationship between Hurricane Helene and us humans. It's a communication thing. Something is silenced between the Los Angeles fires and you and me. How could we not get the message? How could we not see? Background: The Earth is a medium. They are everywhere all the time. (The Earth is non-binary) .... their communicatin…
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152. The Fire Edition - From the Spark of Life to the Flames of Crisis
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This week on Earth Riot Radio, Savitri D guest hosts and leads us through the divine ignition of fire in the cosmos to its modern infernos fueled by greedy executives directing fossil fuel corporations. We confront the flames that shape, sustain, and threaten life. Fire is the sacred, untamed force that births civilizations and scorches fragile lif…
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151. The Only Effective Climate Activist Is THE EARTH ITSELF
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How Do We Feel? Immersed In Worldwide Confusion? None of our activism is working. The hottest 19 months in the last 100,000 years are the last 19 months. How do we talk to the only activist about what to do? We have taken a giant step into the Sixth Extinction. All the national pledges for controlling carbon emissions have failed. Our international…
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2024. What the Hell happened? This was the year that rushed up at us like a freak storm. This year, all the eco-systems were fully committed to the Sixth Extinction, and so are we. 2025. We awake from a deep sleep and change completely. Our bodies are ecosystems, too, knowing the Earth. This is a wild party we can’t refuse. Our clothes are tearing,…
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149. Christmas Causes Climate Change and Other True Jokes
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Are you unable to listen to looping Mariah Carey and watch people drag dying trees to their living rooms while the bombs fall on families? Christmas is tawdry and reprehensible. There are live trees in our neighborhood within walking distance. They are the monarchs of an only partially harmed ecosystem, but the natural world is our path to freedom …
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148. Paul Watson is Free. But so is Trump.
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It is the time to dream, to arrange for protective custody of our souls. The violence against the human and the more-than-human is declared and already in evidence. The species vanish into extinction as the Earth sweeps through the forests and swamps and deserts with wildfire and flood, and the message to us is that we join her in an ultimate freed…
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"Revolution makes the Revolutionary." That is a quote in this week's show. The Sixth Evolution will lift nationhood from us. Read me my rights. The tidal wave of Evolution throws us against the Empire State. Oh we ride toxins to the top of the wind. Crouch in a house-fire, waiting for a climate criminal to get into his Mercedes. We are living shock…
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146. FREE CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON! To Defend the Whales, Dolphins, Sharks and Sea Turtles.
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A healthy whale is a big profit-center just swimming out there for the taking. The sea has very little enforceable law. It’s all very watery. The Japanese whaling industry wants one of the great earth-defending heroes of our time to go to prison for “throwing a stink-bomb” at a Japanese citizen on one of their massive death ship/factories. The murd…
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145. Can We Be Strange Enough To Change Enough?
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Is any resistance to our carbon-based life style gonna happen? For years now screaming doomsayers have predicted these drowning and burning cities, the starvation and drought and disease. Is the Sixth Extinction underway? This week, with music from Common and the Fiery Eagles of Justice and The Stop Shopping Choir and lots of bullfrogs…. We ask: Ca…
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Trump is trying to build a wall. The Earth eats walls. Trump puts fear in dreams. The Earth puts love in dreams. The Earth puts love in dreams to keep out the fear. The Earth is what people are made of, the materials of the Earth and the electricity in a thought and a beating heart and --- We are agents of the Earth. The Earth is life making life a…
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143 Trump Returns? The Sixth Extinction Will Take Care Of Your Orange Ass...
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The Earth is everywhere all the time, it's you and me and the ideas, pixels and bad breath that connect us. The Earth is in charge and what they (the Earth is non-binary, we believe in the Church of Stop Shopping) - what they are working hard at just now is something called the Sixth Extinction. In the Earth Riot Radio world this is what has replac…
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The only way back to radical change is Through justice for all people, and Justice for all living things. One of those living things is all of life put together, the planet Earth. The only way back to any life at all is Loving the Earth!By Reverend Billy and Savitri D
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141. Reporting a Transformative Happy Rage in our UK Tour
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Every show rocked with pandemonium at the end. Then people wouldn't leave. Our 12 singers and musicians joined an audience that became a party that became a town hall meeting. They stayed to talk and listen with such conviction that they impacted the content of the next performance. (We had 3 performances in two days in London.) The idea that the E…
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140. Dispatches From the Fabulous Unknown
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We don't know what it will take to stop the climate catastrophe. We haven't found it yet. Let's look everywhere for a way to stop this great machine; there must be a weak link there somewhere. One approach: Pull out and re-direct some part of the machine that they assume can never disobey, like a highway cone, like you and me...…
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139. The voice in the eye of Helene is telling us to.... study the wind, study the flood, study how you love the person you are with as you both face the wind and the waves.
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Today's Earth Riot is for you activists. Keep talking to the Earth as you risk arrest, crossing the property-line, of a criminal organization like Chevron. You are both talking to yourself, because you are the Earth, and you are talking to the Earth outside of you. But don't let the Earth be inside you only, you'll lose your place in the world. And…
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138. Flying Over Borders, Flying Through the Fear
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Earth must flood us all and downpour you and I into the valley below when we have built up a false border with our fear. Defeat the religions, militaries, nation states and racial hatred... Borders need to be washed away now, and fear made useless. In this "flying" episode from June of 2023 we flow the borders away with flood and flight. This is th…
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