Earth Riot Radio

COP26 is the object of an unprecedented avalanche of press releases which promise “Carbon Zero by 20______”. All the corporations are promising a complete turn around from the present cycle of production profit and waste. What do activists do now? The “End” is endless. The stalling goes on till death do us part. We need a new kind of Earth Activism. One where the mystical touch of the Earth is lea...

The shift in tactics is driven by the Earth - our most effective protester. Nobody says NO! to CO2 capitalism quite like a super storm. The “natural disasters” are political. They are messages, encouraging us to re-invent how we defend life on Earth and move into expressive politics beyond our old rallies and marches. The vividness of this current 6th Extinction makes us want to evolve into someth...

In the shadow of Hurricane Ida, we went out into the streets to talk to people. The common sense was more radical than we expected. Everyone is feeling trapped, so far from any ability to protect themselves from the super storms and fires. People seemed frustrated that they are in the middle of this city, so far from the natural world. They want to be closer to the Earth.  We asked random stranger...

The strange deadly beauty of the show called "Extinction is Here" came to jaded New Yorkers last night and hey - we're impressed. Very impressed. But that's not enough. The Earth is the impresario here and the show called Extinction is extreme evolution. First of all, we can't just move to the country. Our memory of who we are needs to be free to travel farther than that. Who am I? Ida has erased...

We think the Earth wants us to sing and trespass for 20 years, (trespass on the property of fossil banks, for instance.)  And you have your translation of the Earth’s message, don’t you.  We know we can’t shop our way out of the Shopocalypse.  The Indigenous people of northern Minnesota are the wildfire, the Protectors and our teachers.  Earthalujah!

We have never believed that the Earth tells stories, but we have no choice now; we must step into the plot of the 6th Great Extinction. We need to like the outlandish story-line and join up. And that is what we mean when we say “Wild Dreams of a New Beginning.”. It’s a phrase that was given to us by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed away last March at the age of about a century. He was the sustain...

There must be a word for it. Copying your enemy’s language and hurling it back at them twice as loud. In today’s show we are taking three current examples of this phenomenon, Big Chem, NYPD and the rich guys ruining the climate with their fossil emissions. But these three are SO violent that they risk being disbelieved. They still do it, day after day: You’re Violent!

With the gov’t, corporations, army and church abandoning us, we have the Earth’s dangerous evolution as our future. This “flipping-over” could be a good thing. The Earth will break the hold of totalitarian consumerism on our psyches. New transformations will have us feeling and seeing the Earth throughout our life. The Earth might deal tragedy, coming in over the horizon as a crashing horizon of m...

The criminals are in suits and the peaceful Earth is just plain dangerous.  With CO2 and Methane pouring into the air, our protest criminalized by Republican laws, and hundreds of life forms vanishing weekly... the well-meaning humans are caught in a crossfire. The way out is to follow the seeds on the wind. Let’s do some spiritual farming. The map to our new kind of earth activism is there in the...

Consumerism is totalitarian, with constant repetitions, screen staring and the overwhelming threat of boredom. Then a natural disaster hits and a crack of hope appears. 200 mph winds for a couple days can really work wonders. Even a billionaire in outer space can clear the air for a moment. But products rush to fill any vacuum. It would be nice if we could say to each other that the physical envir...

I am a legitimate human being.  You?  You are evil unthinkable slime.”  Each of the politicians says that about every other politician.  It makes sense that here at the point of violence, we reach in our language a 3-ring circus of meaninglessness.  The whole conversation is a sum total of conspiracy theories, the biggest ones being Wall Street and the Pentagon, along with Q-anon, Chase Bank, anti...

We're working on a manifesto, a living document as guidance while the 6th Extinction rolls over us. There is not much teaching on the subject in a consumer society. Possibly our country is self-censoring because we want to monetize extinction but can't sell it. Is that why public figures give the Sixth Extinction the silent treatment? So we make up our own rules for living as the physical environm...

The Earth would be our lover except for totalitarian consumerism. Think of how the Earth has tried to reach us. And we have to include the fire and flood and virus with the beautiful Spring. Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are our guests at the Extinction Live Talk Radio, Sunday the 27th, 1 to 3 pm New York time. Come to REVBILLY.COM. These radical lovers urge us away from religious or commercial...

We stop CO2 from coming into our atmosphere by "breaking into public space". This means that we personally challenge the totalitarian consumer society. That breaking out might be scary and embarrassing at first. Walk through iti like its a doorway. Outside, the Earth has a vision for us.

John Sims is an artist, and a dear friend of The Church of Stop Shopping. Recently, John was roused from sleep at 2 AM by three white cops entering his apartment with guns drawn. This took place in Columbia, SC., where his AfroDixia exhibit is now installed, and he is artist-in-residence. John's speech to the Columbia City Council, in the days following the scare, is included in full in this radio...

In the age of AI, UFO’s and quantum physics we are still clinging to our human centrism. Get over that. Honeybees have language and unprecedented one-celled animals have been witnessed marching out of solid rock a mile under the surface of the Earth. But we can’t believe that a tsunami, say, is thinking something? Stop it with your “Nature prove it to me” attitude. Disasters are messages. They are...

Hell waits for the executives of Chase, Bayer, Exxon. These men don't get caught with blood on their hands. They fly in a permanent jet, above their victims, far away. We try to serve them papers but they don’t use paper anymore. The 6th Extinction serves them the papers. Their corporate jets will stop in the sky. The children will board the plane and serve the papers, as they will with each and e...

Got a Vaccine for the 6th Extinction? Two teams. The Vaccines vs. the Virus Variants. Our heads turn without thinking toward the largest item in the arsenal of products offered by American consumerism. Win and Lose. More of that race toward the Binary. The institutionaliizing of fear.  This is the best way to not notice where we are, on the earth with extinction underway.  Recently the earth has s...

After witnessing the final scene in the new ban of RoundUp in New York City parks, we can say: These tortured molecules that now saturate our eco-systems are like Robert E. Lee statues that celebrate slavery.  These chemical constructions are meant to be permanent, markers of imprisonment. We sense a strange business plan in the mass death encouraged by big fossil banks and their chemical company...

Oh we mean BANNED.  The Church of Stop Shopping and The Black Institute helped ban the carcinogenic pesticide RoundUp from NYC parks. On Earth Day, the NY City Council unanimously banned this poison. 1,700 parks and 30,000 acres of greenery are filling up with children and picnics and lovers and joggers and birdwatchers. Now they won’t have to risk getting cancer. (Monsanto invented Agent Orange,...

The guilty verdict in Minnesota comes down as Earth Day cries out. Can we live on the Earth without killing it? The rally where we celebrated the banning of Monsanto/Bayer's carcinogenic "RoundUp" from NY parks featured Bertha Lewis, the founder of ACORN and long-time advocate of no poison in the parks. Bertha shouted "Earth Justices is Racial Justice!" RoundUp, with its toxin Glyphosate, was spra...

Most of us are kept from the endless beautiful mysteries of our home eco-system. We walk inside cities made of pixels, pavement, traditions of violence. What if our fossilized culture suddenly had citizens that knew their eco-system like seeds? And what if, facing our current life-and-death reality, we need to know about our home place on this Earth. We are like seeds waiting for our radical love...

Extinction is either believed to be fake science by the financial classes in the US, or it is their business plan. With the rise of trillionaire Jeff Bezos, the capitalist project in this country is taking the dumping of waste into the atmosphere to a new level of planet-heating recklessness. I use the "urban hipster" as my example of the self-erotics of consumption, but of course enablers of the...

Wangari Maathai, rainforests, jaguars and Joanna Macy are tactical consultants in this ‘earth church.’ Savitri D’s “News from the Natural World” is transformed in a big cat attack and wind and rain. The new song from the Stop Shopping Choir: “The X in Extinction” features a confrontation with a “dead kid from 2044.” The question in this 29 minutes show is whether Earth, as it overwhelms the human...