Earth Riot Radio

There’s a massive counter-intuitive job up ahead, a gift from the Earth that we can’t refuse. The extinction is a mysterious process of death and life, and it is not a product. It is not culture-friendly, not in consumer society. We have never believed that the Earth can produce stories, but we must step into the story of The Sixth Extinction. We need to like the story-line and join up. Since the...

The Sixth Extinction is underway and it is accelerating. But even talking about extinction is hard. It seems to be a subject beyond words. That is the opportunity. That is the starting point. Tenderness, loyalty, empathy, collective memory, giving… let’s just call all of that Love. Love can take us beyond our existing words to where language and meaning come from. That is where we need to go. We n...

There are 2 make-overs of fossil fuel culture coming to a life near you.   One is the human version, call it “The Climate Movement”.  The other is the idea that the Earth is proposing, call it Extinction, the 6th Extinction, Species Extinction, the End of Life As We Know It, the Apocalypse. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are...

But on the down low, subconscious selves are itching for more Extinction and entertainment capitalists know this. The plot of all the blockbuster films and video games is the end of the world. A steals-every-scene villain wants to kill us all. In fact, the demon DNA-bent BAT FROM OUTER CHINA would be a perfect super villain. Our subterranean self pays $20 to itch that itch. We sell our souls for m...

In today's Earth Church we look for a place for the many varieties of radical activists to meet, not on Zoom. Where can identities mix, languages translation each other in mid-air, a good reckless imagination matter again with talk of a future that threatens no-one. We will share a knowledge that deadly evolution that is changing us as we breathe. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping i...

“I am legitimate. You, on the other hand, are evil unthinkable slime, in the opinion of normal, moral Americans.” Each of the representatives is saying this to everyone else. It’s no coincidence that here, at the point of violence, we reach in our language a 3-ring circus of meaninglessness. But the natural world has also invaded Washington, and I don’t mean the Coronavirus. In today’s Earth Churc...

We are mostly made of living Earth. A small percentage of us, just our angry brains, is locked in revenge against Trumpists. This is also true of Trumpists. They are mostly living Earth, "sacred water" - like you and me. And their brains are raging at us and most anyone who is not white. It's the living Earth part of us, the beating heart and breathing and loving part of us, that can connect with...

The consumerization of telling stories, of describing the act of living in the natural world, is so distorting that mass death cannot be put into words. It's hard to warn that there is danger if the warning is only spoken in faint echoes. If mass death threatens to lose money then it will be ignored and not noticed and we will be lifted a mile into the air by some wave of earth while we continue t...

Their mistake was letting us put a human hand on the Bible in the first place… because the Earth is in our fingers and that is like letting the wetlands plunge back into the city to pull down the luxury towers. The judge looks down at our fingers and feels the extinct animals flying laughing from our fingertips. The Judge screams “I BELIEVE IN Q’ANON!” and leaps into the crowd. Our hands rise like...

We must compost our horror. Go to your favorite forest and scream until a million living beings gush down upon you.  It's the fastest way to get back to the survival project called the Sixth Extinction.  The polluters must look up and see a wave of well-meaning humans grabbing their carbon.  We don't have time to return to 9/11 and its industrial Puritanism.  The Earth recognizes us, how we are sh...

Corona is governing us now. This is a tragic transformation in an evolutionary struggle. A new kind of activist, the Earthers, will transform the hell out of the thousands of Mitch McConnels who work for the fossil rich in this time of extinction. The young men in their confederate underwear only amounted to a bad Saturday Nite Live bit that afternoon at the capitol. Now the government of the Eart...

As we sit in the intellectual stillness of our lockdown, our screens feature the latest superbowl. The team of mutating viruses is soundly defeating a team of hapless vaccines. We know that with this defeat we will be called before the Earth in the final judgement. We had a choice to make, we swiped with our card and returned to our comforts and conveniences. Now we're in hell. Hell is an Amazon f...

The mass death now underway will only accelerate if we believe that that super storm over there is a mechanical malfunction, and this pandemic over here is only the absence of a vaccine All the so-called natural disasters come from one source, which is a living being that is struggling to live through an extinction wave. The spinning wet blue and white ball in space is a life. We were supposed to...

As annihilation races around the Earth, governments and corporations, armies and religions remain passive, as if this is their plan. These powers share a story reinforced by fear, silence, despair. The larger unreported pandemic has a myriad of interlocking diseases, and the powerful run it. Kurt Vonnegut, Chris Smalls and his Amazon workers, African coffee activists, The Stop Shopping Choir and t...

Towards a secular spiritual activism. Standing Rock shows the way. (So does Black Lives Matter.). When activism succeeds and transforms how we live - there is always an underlying spiritual force. Justice for the planet is strongest when it comes from the Earth itself. The power is there in the thing we are trying to save. There's a trick in this. We have to invite the Earth to save us first, and...

The violence in the holiday sale is unseeable. The comforts and conveniences are a force field that scrambles our reception of the holy days. The design flaw in the beautiful machine of America is extinction, and we activists haven’t figured out how to dis-encrypt the message of the Earth that blows through us like hopeless love, like the last howling high notes of the animals that are entering de...

Quotes from this week's Earth Church: 1) Earth to Humans: Start Your Apocalypse. - 2) To survive: All evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious transformation. - 3) We will leave behind piles of pixels and paper. Careerism is over. - 4) We built our sophistication behind 300 years of carbon. - 5) Can we break through convenience? Covid says yes that is possible. - 6) Children! We gotta tea...

I mean, we've done everything we could. For the holidays, we stopped shopping. We don't drive. We turn off Zoom. That's what she wanted, right? Does she have compassion for us? We dive deeper and deeper into a smaller and smaller number of people. We are in the last room with this forced embrace of loved ones. We are here in a great city that doesn't make a sound. We wait. A bright yellow dirigibl...

“Greatness” is supposed to describe unstoppable power. But people don’t have that anymore, the Earth is the power. Kings and Queens always insisted that they got their instructions straight from God. That arrogance still bears evil fruit in companies like Bayer, Chase, and Amazon, converting their pollution into cash. As Donald Trump suffers the humiliation of his “Emperor Has No Clothes” moment,...

The politicians will go down insisting that climate change is just another “issue.” The machinery of denial will disappear in fire and flood, disease and starvation. But we are Earth-lovers in the Stop Shopping Church. We believe that there is a place for humans even this late in the apocalypse. That place is the Amazon Fulfillment Center, where the votes for our suffering and death are cast, as e...

Gaia theory says that the Earth is a conscious living being. Many people sense that this is true, but we think of her thoughts as impossible for us to understand.  We think of nature’s intelligence as not of the logical or strategic sort. But why? It seems as if the bio-sphere of the planet is more involved in the elections than the Russians. The unprecedented pandemic and storms and fires – all d...

We can’t imagine what will happen after the election. We can’t dream of what will follow the pandemic. All the old optimism, the hope for a good future, is gone. The reason: When Trump and the virus are history, we will still be continuing our mindless civil war. All these years the happy hate has distorted our lives, until it blends seamlessly into our language. We think its normal. But hate neve...

We are trying to hold the blurring deadly motion back by labeling it and selling it, like the way we use super tragedies as programming between ads for tough trucks. For many years now, the modern economy has replaced everything that was disappearing, like wilderness areas, with virtual reality versions in video games, museum dioramas, etc. But the wilderness grew more and more silent. Then the tr...

The mass death now underway will only accelerate if we believe that that super storm over there is a mechanical malfunction, and this pandemic over here is only the absence of a vaccine and that wildfire over there is a failure to mop and rake California.... All the so-called natural disasters come from one source, which is a living being that is struggling to live through an extinction wave. The...

When we’re free of this cycle of Two-Day White Sales and Eternity with the Right Wing – then we can apply for membership with the planet Earth. Joining up in 2020 is entering the game when Extinction is accelerating toward the final buzzer. If we survive, let’s be sure to be wildly in love! ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shoppi...