Earth Riot Radio

The now rolling-toward-us Apocalypse is very real, but the author of the storms and wildfires is the Earth, and so there’s love in the message that is raining down on us. We are modern humans, what can I say? Not much. Worse yet, we can’t listen or hear or love. We need the Earth that we have inside us to rise up, dancing, singing – yes thats it!! The bad preachers will be pulled out of their fume...

The habit of hate, the back and forth cursing from climate and other culture war issues, needs out attention. Why is hate feeling so good? We all deny that we hate, but then we go back to denying our enemy’s basic humanity. The question in this weeks ‘earth service’ is: This hateful name-calling – does it somehow impact the wind and waves, the disease and drought? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s mu...

Separating the kinds of mother love leaves us listless, de-politicized, anxious, empty. Who and why? The chosen people did it. The police did it. The butler did it. The corporate people spied a profit center in that love.  Back in the Book of Genesis we made a deal to follow the pillar of fire, kill the goddesses and beasts and kill the natives waiting in our promised land. Or did this all happen...

As the violent events multiply, we begin to talk about the criminal in a new way. The villain is sick, bitter, a Devil. We just don't know what to do with our dream of thousands of disasters rushing over us. Why? Who? We haven't let ourselves reply to all this out-of-scale carnage. We aren't naming things, or making meaning, or even music. We are changing so completely that change isn't the word. ...

With the nightmare of the news that the North Pole is now open water, not to mention 700 Cali fires, COVID across the country and Marco and Laura the Tinder date from Hurricane Hell.., the Rev is shocked into confronting the death wish of American passivity. What do we do? Can we save our children from the zombies and their disasters? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Lucke...

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...

There is a line penned by Savitri D in our song "We Surround You" - which is about the revenge expressed by animals killed by extinction. "You take the names of what you kill. Our names are dead, but we still sing.." The lyric might be what the Amazon River would say to CO2-spewing Amazon Corp. In this episode of RBR, we explore the possibilities of a new kind of activism for the Earth. "What ques...

This week, Frederick Douglass to Bobby Sands to Emma Goldment, a river of activism flows. The marches and rallies will not stop till police violence stops, till evictions and neighborhood destroyers stop. The oil companies and war machine and factory farming will find that the Earth is not kidding with the hard-ass evolution of her Sixth Extinction. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is...

Black Lives Matter will never end, because the righting of this injustice is the American project after the empire dies, and it is dying now - glory be. The lie that Frederick Douglass described, in calling slavery a kind of freedom - that lie is shown to us by Black Lives Matter. Our culture is changing in real time. This is the return of the natural world. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music di...

The "I Can't Breathe" of Eric Garner and George Floyd is the song of change. As Black Lives Matter comes home, can we carry our love like the brave songs of the Garner family? How deep do we drive the change into the suffocation of Consumer America? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eag...

Billy and the singers march home from Black Lives Matter and the Queer Liberation March with their ecstatic songs. The extinction keeps accelerating, but so does our consciousness. Will we get home before the final storm hits? Only the Earth knows which way the wind blows.  ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D i...

White people are now coming home from the revolution. Twenty million of us in every state and many countries. The racism we shouted down awaits us in our everyday life. The racism is in disguise, excluding, profitable, resentful. Will we even see it? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Ea...

When we find that the sea-change is happening and we are riding a wave like Black Lives Matter, we can feel it everywhere, on the landscape and in our body and soul. The secret is to never stop the ritual that got us here, which is to SAY THE NAMES, every day and hour... This is a project of remembering more and more. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director...

The racism of American life has been called out finally and here we are. What does a white guy do? March and shout and listen for the next instruction or fit of conscience. This half-hour starts with Dragonfly, African American soloist with the Stop Shopping Choir, singing her call for revolution.  Amen! George Floyd! Breonna Taylor! Ahmaud Arbrey! ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is...

We will gradually, step by step, emerge from our lockdown, and hopefully uncover our faces and draw closer and touch. The defense against he pandemic has become symbolic of our powerlessness and financial terror in the face of aggressive institutions. We are suffering a separation from each other, and from public space, and from each other in public space. But if and when the virus sets us free, w...

Billy can’t stop the orange bleeding, then thanks the care-giver who lives downstairs. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil...

Wall Street screams. They want us back. The White House pleads. Return! Come back to fear! Fear! ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thank...

“Some call it death, some call it life, makes us keep on dancing day and night.” ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young...

Billy plants a rainbow gay-pride flag at the back door of a preacher who wants all genders different from his own to burn in Hell. Billy goes to jail. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason...

The Earth is a conscious living being. What does that mean? Billy hallucinates many answers. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to...

Billy now in lockdown, starts hearing voices. Is the virus taking over the preaching? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Y...

First days of the Coronavirus in New York, Billy tries to get his memory back. Where has he been? Who has he been with? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of P...