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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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Donde puedes conseguir todos los podcast de Indie Riot. Nuestro Podcast Mensual, Top Ten y otros inventos para apoyar el movimiento de rock independiente en Puerto Rico y el mundo.
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FRANKYEFFE - BIOGRAPHY Traversing the winding passages of his own cavernous capabilities, prolific Italian DJ, producer and label owner Frankyeffe – real name Francesco Fava – is well on his way to reaching the peak of his towering potential. Since his career’s 2001 inception, he’s wandered some of the darkest corners of melodic techno, injecting innovation and amplitude and gradually cementing himself as a true master within his own class. Initially rising to prominence behind the decks of ...
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Our Earth-Killing system veils the connection between Consumerism and Militarism, a fundamental connection. But this current war doesn't pass the common sense test for most Consumers. Controlling our sense of right and wrong is a primary goal of the Consumerist project. Marketers are holding their breath as the war in the Mideast and the Ukraine fe…
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Our task for more than 20 years running has been to dramatize Consumerism, the biggest and baddest fundamentalist religion in the US. But we've never had a holiday shopping season kick-off that shows us the violence of our Consumerism as vividly- as this year's Black Friday. We didn't choose an easy issue. Consumerism, the cultural enforcement arm …
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The protection of innocent children and families are enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights that Eleanor Roosevelt read to our nation in the late 40's. The US has not lived up to that pledge. The suffering and early death of so many innocent people in the colonial wars in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Chile and Iraq also impacted home life upon the …
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We're caught here in the musical language of the Earth, which can caress us or unleash natural disasters at us, but the Earth is saying something and we need to hear it. It does feel too late. And sometimes our Earthchxrch singing slides into a dirge. Usually, we are ecstatic and our neighborhood sees us in the windows acting like holy rollers. The…
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There’s too much fame everywhere, a false fluorescent stain on every face. In this Earth Riot, we recall those who earned good fame. And we badly need a new public figure for our self-induced apocalypse. Consumerized fame, the monetizing of reputations - isn’t just a distraction. Commercial fame isn’t just lots of celebrities - manufactured flesh p…
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The spectacle and tragedy of war is upon us, history haunting us as old wars flare up again. And then there is the Earth's violence, which is really saying something. Because the Earth is intelligent, alive, conscious, and we in the Earth Riot Radio community, centered around the Eartchxrch in New York, we believe that our liberation from fundament…
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Openly killing innocent people – this violence goes into our bodies and changes us all. Peace is also in our bodies, and that's the encouraging thing. The Earth puts this Peace in us. Peace is a part of life. Peace is in motion. We need to discover Peace every day. If we continue to ask, "What is Peace today?" we invite the Earth to create stronger…
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The history that we make is converted immediately to conspiracy. Our memories are Facebook pages. You swipe your card, and have a heavy, romantic date with a stranger arranged by a corporation. We are supposed to be lost in a False World. That's good for the economy. That's prosperity. That's America. The total invasion of an internal, private life…
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Many are dedicated to our favorite ideas about improving things, people, and the Earth-- many of us know something is happening that changes everything. We are making decisions about our activism for the Earth,as we always have. We remember social movements in the past. And then, we apply the experiences from Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, ACT UP, a…
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People with a conscience for human life and the Earth are bursting with emotion, information, artistry, and legal counter-offensives against the fossil fuel industry. There will soon be a response to the fires and floods by the mass of people deemed "violent." Unlike the current violence by the fossil banks and oil companies, which causes cities to…
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Chase Bank, BlackRock, and CitiBank show no signs of backing off their trillions in toxins. Climate Week in New York City will have its inventive gestures, a few arrests, and bank employees distracted for a couple of hours. Stopping oil, though, will take a revolution, not a protest. Revolution is not just cultural, or pixelated, or a mile of march…
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But didn't we invent hope? We began as the nation whose name meant "Dream Big." The American Dream killed the people who lived here and stole people from their lives in Africa. And now the climate is killing the killers here as the Earth evolves its next life. The top banker says that to give up the poisons would be "America going to Hell". We look…
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Our Activism Fails. The exotic and serene and vast landscape, the great bed of love is poisoned by fossil toxins. Climate Week wants a direction. Well, read the instructions of a hurricane with rooftops spinning like frisbees. Oh help us! Let love fill us with the Earth's expectations and we will face the killers. We will find stronger activism in …
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So many young people come out of their very young years looking the polluter generations in the eye. They make basic things clear about survival and right and wrong. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is the most obvious of our climate criminals. We don't have that many gangsters at his level. He puts his trillions behind the fabulous profits made by pu…
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On one side, human violence: War, Trump, starvation, toxins, etc. On the other side, the more creative violence of the Earth: like a hurricane in the Pacific. Caught between humanity and the Earth, we are trapped. And what are we doing? We're passive. As consumers, we believe we can be bystanders. In the EarthChxrch, we suggest that you side with t…
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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. The necessary revolution is here in this extraordinary moment. Our only task is to live up to it. The Earth's 6th Extinction is not demanding a response within our quiver of desire, or our strategy, or…
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And this applies to the climate crisis, too. Only revolution can make peace. Real change always involves the sacrifice of life. We are allowing the powerful to amass unprecedented fortunes from mass murder, and they are raking in the billions in plain sight. People seem locked in passivity. The CO2 increases in the atmosphere every month. If a few …
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But we are looking for a kind of conversation in public space that is as regular and full or neighborly affection as it is, in 2023 at least, a revolution in communication. The stories blow in the wind in one direction more than any other direction, and that is called “Culture". The absence of a sensible delivery system for spoken word stories is t…
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It is where Human and Earth Rights are the same. Walking into the property of Power and declaring your freedom. To walk across the property line of an Earth criminal like JPMorgan Chase or British Petroleum or Monsanto/Bayer is to enjoy a jolt of honesty. It feels like fresh mountain air. To walk across the racist part of the Senate, or the sexist …
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The passivity of human beings in the face of the fossil killing fields... that is the riddle of our age. If we go ahead with our current shrug of the shoulders, we are offering up our children to early death. Why? Yes, we do have an alternative. That would be - ending our opposition to the vivid process of life that is demonstrated everywhere aroun…
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Here at the hottest day in history is MAGA Republicans fear making violence directly, as surely as their friends the NRA encourage mass shootings. Are the fear-mongers impressed that their climate science denial became so real, so fast? For those of us who recognized the truth in the warnings by scientists going back 30 years, and who sensed in the…
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All the words we should have used to explain to one another the deadly importance of the climate crisis are Consumerized. We’ve got to be surreal. We’ve got to be exorcised. We’ve got to be impossible sometimes, to understand. Got to fly from the edge of the cliff. We are weightless now. We are falling through natural disasters and we don’t know ho…
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Things happen in the US that our words don't reach. We shout, scream, shoot bullets but none of what we do is a realistic response to the Earth's crisis. We need logic more like the surrealism of evolution. We need common sense more like the paranormal intuition of a psychic who has a crying jag. We have murdered so many people that we have created…
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Consumerized Capitalism is designed to multiply our product choices while taking away from us the one choice that matters. We live in the natural world. It turns out that is a science fiction concept. That is why in our Earthchxrch today we feature Ursula K. Le Guin. e feature Jordan Neely, who moon-walked in the tunnels under New York City until h…
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What kind of people would we be, if we were so powerful that we successfully defended the Earth? It happens once in a while, some of us are possessed. Call it "Justice Possessed". Black Lives Matter, ACT UP, Standing Rock, Occupy Wall Street, The Rapist in Your Path, #metoo... Many of us have never been that possessed. Many of us think of a revolut…
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History was made by men triumphing over nature. Now the Earth makes history. Earth has the right approach to the 6th Extinction. Engaging the human predator with its ungodly violence; filling us with fear so that we need strongmen and cruel armies. But our weak violence only spins us out. The Earth's power is greater by many orders of magnitude. Ho…
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This week's show will take you into extinction like the dinosaurs - turn into birds and fly away! Savitri D, John Trudell, Leila Adu, Francisca Benitez, Jason Candler & The Stop Shopping Choir help us mutate right out of this Apocalypse. Fossil fuel power has taken over much of the known world. And the toxins are killing us. The Earth is the activi…
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These two artists passed on within days of one another last December, and it seems like yesterday. They were dear friends of the Church of Stop Shopping. Hamish was best known for his band The Clean, and John for his Afro-Dixie Mixtapes. Ambitious artists could wish to leave for the world such luminous gifts. But “....our little life / Is rounded w…
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Our action against fossil fuel violence is not more violence - but the world of cultural resistance is still open to us. It is not exhausted. Lately, the culture seems not alive to many of us, as all expression from any source is swallowed whole by the virtual reality bubble of corporate marketing supported by big money and militaristic police. We …
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Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir come to Joe's Pub on May 7 & 14 at 4pm, JoesPub.com/tickets. It's three blocks from where Jordon Neely was murdered. The buskers, the doowop groups, the jugglers, Mariachi combo and rappers, and the Michael Jackson moon-walkers like Jordon Neely, killed by an ex-marine/son of a cop from Long Island. A light …
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The violence is rolling through our lives like unknowable deadly weather. The politicians are proud to not respond. Bad weather is just liberal hysteria. We develop secret faiths, under the surface with its greasy neon. Deep down inside as the storms and wildfires and starvation and war are accepted prefabricated fascism out in the open. But deep i…
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We have Actual Reality and we have a lot of Virtual Reality in this episode too...We have to know the difference...We live in a highly mediated mindscape, with the immersion in corporate marketing the fundamentalist ritual practice of ordinary living in America. In our Earth Riot this week our show of the Actual is a preaching by Bertha Lewis in th…
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And with this April 16 Sunday, LiveStreamed 3pm New York time, (link at Revbilly.com) we cross into our second year of this experiment. We bring humor and music and a kind of DIY spirituality to our defense of the Earth. Thank you for being with this in this work (and this play). May the Earth's crisis evolve in such a way that we can have a life a…
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Anne and Paul Ehrlich wrote: “Evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious transformation of cultural values.” Passover and Easter are liberation stories, from Egypt & from Rome; into the Promised Land & into the miracle of Life After Death. Christians & Jews celebrate control over the Earth, its storms & bodies of water & animals. An obedient…
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For the Earth: We Must Boycott the ‘New Reality’ that the world’s most valuable company says will replace the iPhone. Governments and corporations have separated us from the Earth via gradualism. Somehow we ended up in our apartments with the Earth only coming to us as decorative shrubbery or background in movies, while gas & oil & plastics kill ev…
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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. This is exactly what we have done, to storms and floods, starvation and drought, heatwave and novel viruses. We colonize when we separate these disasters from each other and pretend that each is a …
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The first song in today's Earth Riot asks, "What did they do to the great outdoors?". The Fabulous Unknown would be a better description of the natural world than the “great outdoors”. The word "Great"— how can we decolonize that word and heal from there? Some people who have been called "Great" also seem to have The Fabulous Unknown of the natural…
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The surviving warrior, Angela Davis, speaks with young, gifted and black students in Toni Morrison's hometown. "I am no longer accepting things that I cannot change; I am changing things I cannot accept. I am everyday associated with a people who refuse to give up! Not only that - a people who have created in the process of the struggle - beauty!" …
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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? Would I be able to focus on the toxicity in the investments of fossil banks, and dramatize this crime? Environmentalism was at once based on eloquent essays. Ecologica…
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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. Gestures deemed Inappropriate by police are the justification for murders of the unarmed. Our dramatic work in the lobbies of JPMorgan Chase has evolved since our first direct action in this …
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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... The Earth isn't binary. A boreal forest of a long-grass prairie are the coming together of m…
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Savitri D, Joan Baez, Sunder Ganglani, Leila Adu Tortuguita Imagination Courage THELIVINGFOREST. Death Sex Mutation 6TH EXTINCTION. Sky Unity Singing JUSTICE. Yes, review life again and again, around & around led by the women. Because why are we passive in the face of the interruption of life by fossil fuel profiteers and their police. Our powerful…
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Walk in the canyon of urban pressure and now it's not just concrete and pavement, its sky and the depths. Music is the way that the sacrifice community brings the powerful to their sins. A refinery kills children and music bridges to the executive suite, to the Rolls and the Rolex. In this half-hour we go from a jaywalker with painful visions to Dr…
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The intellection is more intense in revolutions. And the sex is hotter and the death is sooner and everything is different. And we need a revolution badly with the Earth’s crisis. But we seem to be rejecting revolution as if it is a product that we refuse to buy. Well, we are consumers. And consumers will kill us all by not buying our life for us. …
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Emergencies won't exist in the traditional ways when there is nothing on the surface of the planet but natural disasters. We have many small dramas but then there is the Great Extinction. Then there is Apocalypse that invents future life by punching our ticket.Di Reverend Billy and Savitri D
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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. The Himalayan mountains are melting and Pakistan is drowning, the heatwaves and blizzards come hotter and colder and stay longer, and now these Atmospheric Rivers are p…
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The people who set up the COP conferences invite billionaires and their enabling professionals to a poker game with a large herd of aggrieved advocates. The game is rigged, but it takes ten days. But that is the essential story of the conference, until now. With the physical environment so clearly deadly, the question "How will we survive" is bring…
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Where did the future go? It feels like the future no longer waits beyond the next moment. The Ukraine War is a miniature replay of World War 2… Trump is like Huey Long crossed with Bozo. The Museum of Modern Art still tries to scandalize us with futurists from the past. Covid is the Creature of the Black Lagoon. What do we expect of our future as w…
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Getting comfortable with the natural world is a good thing to do for the holidays. We have this task, find the fabulous unknown in the ecosystem you love and make your body a part of that ecosystem. Are you facing a forest? An alpine meadow? A wetlands? High Plains Desert? That is your great grift here at the turn of the year. Now close your eyes, …
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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. Life for us in the risk-it-all 21st Century. Everybody in an official capacity is a pirate. The Good are low-balling it and the Worst are healed and focussed. And We know that the Earth is in ch…
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