Earth Riot Radio

Only The Earth Can Stop The United States The devilish "greatness" of our government, guided by profiteering and the very rich’s expanding circles of murderers… …will be culled by a giant gardener pulling a noxious weed, as the rise of the Earth against the fossil fuel toxins takes over the planet. I’m not just talking about the fire and flood and drought and sea-rise, which now threatens us, but...

We celebrate the New Year with a special live performance, in it's entirety. Reverend Billy & The StopShopping Choir get to the heart of the matter.  Start to finish, up and down, this is the message. We are the Earth and whatever it is you do, make the earth part of your work. 

Love is a profit center.  Love is a Hollywood slang word.  Love is claimed by religions, which teach investment bankers to wage wars. Love is a song that we all sing while knowing that there is a responsibility that we are taking on with the use of Love, and so we walk away from our meaningful time with Love, because taken seriously we often attract Indifference, Disease and Hate.  Love would have...

Modern science, the war machine, and the whole tradition of the USA conquering the West is based on the shared belief that we control the Earth's forces. We will save ourselves and the life around us with a very basic - maybe even disorienting and painful - change in what we believe about the Earth. We are a living being inside a larger living being called the Earth. Now that is real.--

Honey, when did humanity become just ridiculous? When did that happen? This morning? It happened fast and very recently. The machines are humouring us. The machines are eating our children. The machines are feeling lonely today. The machines are finding new investments in Crypto, AI and ICE. The machines have lost control of their bowels but they love waste. The machines are programmed to search f...

They call 70% of our body - dark matter and dark energy. The experts talk about this part of us the way they talk about outer space. They resent the fact that the tiny particles that make up most of what we are - cannot be measured or photographed. It doesn't register in their sensitive devices. The mysterious particles do not reflect light. So... don't let some hateful person call you names. You...

It's ordinary people like you and me solving the little puzzles of everyday life that will obliterate the Google babies. The robots will give us blow-jobs, the billionaires will pound us with advertising, the lush forests will break the pavement and crush the concrete, and we will emerge and bamboozle the AI robots because the complexity of the Earth is epic, vast, invisibly tiny, unsolvable, orga...

Mad Men told the Nature Conservancy et al to brand themselves a "Movement" - back in the 70's when those soon-to-be-billionaire orgs got their meal ticket from the Clean Air Clean Water acts and the EPA. Here's the catch. Real social movements have music. Sun Ra and Neil Young, Erykah Badhu and Bjork and Brian Eno and Yoko Ono - made their own way to the Earth and back to our ear. Now the complete...

The father and mother of our country is Harriet Tubman. The teacher of our country is Edward Said and his neighbor Frida Kahlo and her neighbor James Baldwin. The father and mother of our country is the Earth and they were deported by agents of the monoculture, helplessly misguided men in masks who tear us apart. The father and mother of our country immediately begin healing the children ziptied i...

Eco-systems are running and flying for thousands of miles, all life is a foreign stranger to all other life…. what’s happening? The sorrowing in Jamaica, Alice Coltrane's saving grace, First Nations singing to the Earth, Phoenix Fuller Ford's voice and wisdom, Savitri D's News from the Natural World, communities of life climbing up mountains to cool down, families of lizards, sharks, wolves, bacte...

Can We Be Strange Enough to Change Enough? Everything happens at once, too much going on so fast, so violent, more violence, more violence, we can’t respond. Sitting in my chair in the American state of shock. The White House is a Sopranos social club, helicopters drop on Chicago children screaming in pajamas, fishing boats on the sea facing aircraft carriers, jets built to crash in the Gulf of Am...

That's the headline that flashes through the paper and pixels. Someone finally defeats Trump and it is the Earth, who is the guardian of life itself, the captain of evolution, the giver of love. Today's Earth Riot is led by Theodore Roszak, who identified the "Vast Wasteland" of the media culture that poor Donald loves so much, and who gave us the gift of "Eco-Psychology" the healing from the mira...

Meet me down by the river and tell me a secret beyond anything that I know. That's what water does. Jessica Reznicek loves the rivers and ravines of Iowa and tried to protect them. She tried to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and was taken from her water and but not taken from her love of Iowa flowing water. Now she's out of prison but monitored, and -- back swimming again like she remembers from...

Scientists are hysterical now because AI can kill us soon. They are trying to plant a “cyber-conscience” into the robots before they run amuck. But the investor class LOVES THIS HORSE. JD Vance claims the AI robots are the leaders of the American future. He may be an AI-bot himself. But the Earth, far smarter than any computer, is evolving too. There is the tragic side that we humans have made. (W...

The necessary politics of our age is to turn down the virtual reality and reintroduce actual reality. A tree will do this. The Earth marches closer with every fire and flood. No politician is as removed from reality as Donald Trump, no bank is farther from holding your savings than JPMorgan Chase, no religion more distant from bringing the comfort of unconditional grace than the fundamentalist emp...

Peace on this Earth is the mother of all issues. But when we see the devastation in Gaza, the human families are in the foreground, and the rubble farther back. All the beyond-human life on the Earth, from insects to clouds to other people, becomes the background. When I'm shouting into a megaphone on the street, I gravitate to the violence against civilian families as a habit, it's the most power...

The United Nations is crashing, they say. But they should add that all institutions everywhere are crashing, because they aren't people. Institutions don't know how to be kind. After returning from our tour with Neil Young, after amphitheaters and arenas and the Hollywood Bowl, Savitri and I find ourselves suddenly back home with thousands of environmentalists in the streets. The Paris Agreement a...

What If We Could Tell The Truth? What if artists, scientists, earth-activists - were talking to us without corporate interference, representing to us in clear language the Earth’s overwhelming struggle. “Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir” experienced this possibility from concert stages in 16 cities over 5 weeks, as Neil's opening act. As we sang and preached “Earthalujah!” - we could bel...

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, the singing animals, the crackling wildfire...The E...

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, wildfire and drought? WE ALL KNOW IT. Earthalution. Wh...

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 Capitalism. Is the Earth directing everything? Put the...

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 escape this culture of totalitarian consumerism? Hey al...

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 sings, "Love Earth, and your Love comes back to you....

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 Daughtry

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 for Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts to emerge fr...