Earth Riot Radio

The consumer class in many parts of the world - certainly in the USA - has been normalized so thoroughly into a life that is actually suicidal, that to survive at all will mean inventing an alternative science fiction-like life, a completely strange full-scale world. The reality of our physical environment is now seen mostly as a relentless stream of disasters. In fact, it is our own violence that...

There was a bare hand that reached out of the electric swamp of my city, and I clasped the fingers and we grasped each other and gasped and moaned and we've been together ever since. And now the city is changing because it turns out many of us have found the hand that reaches for love, and the masked police and the saturation advertising and all the rest can't possibly interrupt our creation of pe...

Forty-nine years a political prisoner, now back in his home at Turtle Mountain. In this time of lies in a confusing echo-chamber, we have the clarity of this one man. He helps us think straight. Leonard Peltier gives us all our strongest freedom, with his walking free.

The radio show is a freewheeling escapade this week. We're evolving lately toward a simpler message, like when AOC screams, "In the street! In the street!" Our editor Jason Candler is building these wild symphonies out of voices that cut through from the Earth. The wild animals make good radio and teach me how to preach. They give us their far-seeing perspective, the ultimate anti-colonial view of...

We look into a friend’s eye. What is really there? Look deeply, checking for virtualities, pixels, AI. Then ask the friend to save your life. 90 corporate jets, belonging to friends of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, are landing in Venice for the wedding. They might lose their way and fly to Gaza, where children wait on the runways, surround the planes, and tear the billionaires from their jets… ea...

We will all have the same feeling at the same time. It’s a GOOD feeling. And you will hear people say, “I've felt this way before, but I can’t place it.” We will be affectionate with objects that are nearby, like a house or a tree. Ordinary things will be fascinating. We will feel a mild responsibility for everything. We will be aware of large presences beyond the horizon, like oceans and mountain...

We wake up every morning in this caving-in world, and we ask, “What Can I Do To Help?” And we look for defensive measures against the take-over by white nationalist gangsters. The NO KINGS marches of last Saturday roused our belief that there are alternatives everywhere: political, legal, economic…. And we can put that euphoria to good use. But THE EARTH IS COMING! The playing field of everyday li...

You'd have to be, as Monty Python said, "DOWNRIGHT DAFT!" to feel welcomed by last January, the hottest January in 140 centuries. And 2025, so far, has offered floods and fires everywhere. Welcome to a 2-year-old global heatwave that could only be ignored by a dictator bully traumatized by a nightmare father and a variety-pack of humiliations in early life. And yet, the most healed and brave among...

The Stop Shopping Choir is in full-throated radical voice. Savitri D, our leader, can be anywhere in the hall, up on the balcony, pulling pianists out of the kitchen, marching the singers up the aisle toward the nine songs of liberation from fascism. We are crafting songs and screams to fit the architecture of our new home, which is historically better acquainted with silence: the Quaker Meeting H...

Like the Hugh Masekela song “Bring Him Back Home,” which helped free Nelson Mandela from 27 years in prison, the Earth needs to be loved and returned to the forefront of our personal lives, our civic decisions, and our hope for Peace. Give the Earth so much Love that the imagination of our home becomes where we live again. With the Earth as our leader, we can hallucinate back to what’s real. Imagi...

One day, exhausted by sanitized Democrats, we push on that door that Trump points to with his performance of terror. The door swings open, and there before us is a valley full of puzzles, thighs, wa wa pedals, endangered swamp birds, discarded religions, executives in cages… This is chaos. Anything can happen. We move there and live in bliss. WOKELAND! Oh, we know how much power is here. We could...

When we go into the environment where the toxic investments are prepared, and we begin to sing, and invite the bankers to find a way out of the carbon money trap, we feel their sadness. You can't delete the fire and flood; you can't delete whole cities bursting into flames. You walk around in your suit and haircut in the biggest bank in America. You know that you are, year in and year out, the top...

We can only defeat CLIMATE CHANGE ON PURPOSE and RACIST-WARS-EVERYWHERE-ALL-THE-TIME - if we are a lot weirder than our current crop of criminal clowns. There's a good reason that Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, and Ursula Le Guin are so popular. Science fiction can glimpse a kind of moral life so strong it can overthrow the ethno-state. The nonfiction of Mussolini & Hitler & Stalin is sobering. B...

Just a spoonful of shopping makes the bombs go down the bombs go down the bombs go down. War is an active loss of our memory of the Earth. The pilots and crew of bombers are sighting the ordinance into the side of the Earth and losing their Earth Love. But you and I paying for it? What are we losing? Consumerism's wars have saturation advertising on one end of families on fire on the other. The bo...

Trump’s 2nd Inaugural address, quoted liberally in this episode, is a master class in sustained paranoid surrealism. But while he can run, he can’t hide — from the Earth. With the global heatwave in its 24th month, with the worldwide storms and floods and wildfires and starvation and wars….Trump is a comedian falling through space. There will be a moment when nature’s apocalypse overwhelms his ent...

Trump takes over the government. The Earth takes the planet. We join the Earth. Taking risks, stepping out, speaking up. Marching in the ultimate parade. THE EARTH IS ALIVE. Everything we have in us—our resistance, our strength—is given to us by the Earth and is now called forth by the living Earth. She will raise us up to our best selves. The Earth is a living being, and we are living within her....

Saturday, did we walk back the Greatness? Saturday, did we march with simple love that the nation saw from a window? Saturday, did 50-person villages walk alongside the beautiful strangers who have been walking for months? Saturday, did our whisper reach the stranded youth facing another false American war? Saturday, did we walk out of the virtual into the actual, out of consumerism into our radic...

We're not ready for revolution talk, with citizen peace activists being ICEd from their homes. We're in shock. We're staring at Trump. What can we do? The violence against people and the Earth will be stopped. And we, the people, will end it. How? This week on Earth Riot Radio, we remember five heroes who faced the modern corruption of the USA, and they made their move with their bodies and spoken...

On the Occasion of Savitri D's Birthday. We get lots of thanks for her direction of the StopShopping Church performances, and - The News from the Natural World, the heart of Earth Riot. She's our leader as we look for a new home for our chxrch, and embark on new music. This past Sunday, at our rehearsal, the choir sang the entire time. What I mean to say is that it was as if we sang one single son...

The corporation isn't pulled from its home and flown to an unknown prison down South. The corporation has more rights than we do. Only the individual who finds a way to be a corporation will have the protection of the Constitution. Only the individual who can masquerade as a crowd of people obediently looking up at their logo... only that individual who persuades the police that each of his hair f...

Fear is hardening into a major force in the United States. But before Trump it was corporations that put fear in the display window. Fear is the new hot product. And our new cryptocurrency is ATTENTION. We can’t look away from the latest hardship or arrest - that’s how we buy this product. Our attention is always hunted by Trump and his team on a daily basis. Pay up as you stare! They count on us...

When there's so much love in me that we cross the property line of a climate criminal called JPMorgan... we know that behind the desks, there is love to light up inside Chase. It took 9 weeks. all the way into March, to figure out a new year's resolution for the Stop Shopping Chxrch. It's the promise that we keep singing: "Can we be Strange Enough to Change Enough?" And we could say "Love Enough,"...

How many personality disorders does it take to cancel compassion on a worldwide scale? Is there a permaculture instruction manual that can help us rewild western culture? Is there a practical solution to large-scale soul-lessness? Can we move against the White Nationalist Christian Capitalism with armies of cuddly love, erotic atmospheric rivers? Or am I trying to describe music. Yes, a love song...

Like the survivors of Hurricane Helene, we are bombarded with conspiracy theories, with the news that the super storms are brought to life in test tubes by leftist mad scientists. We know it's time to move into the subway. You have to wonder. Folks are not responding to climate change. And if, like the Blue Ridge people who drowned in a year's worth of rain downpouring in a single day, you actuall...

Trump bulldozes your home then withdraws. Your recovery: You start over with shock and stillness.   You achieve total aloneness. Disorientation that you can own. You lose yourself, like grieving for a friend who set you free. Then turn to the Earth, who knows replenishment and love. The warmth that comes from infinite complexity like a forest floor, which gives you a new basement, a place to begin...