Earth Riot Radio

And the first wave of this mass extinction has hit New York. Thousands upon thousands of humans in busses and planes and trains and cars, with bundles and backpacks and not-warm-enough-clothes. What they call the extinction is actually sped up evolution, and our dull city needs it so badly. They walked through Earthchxrch's door for the central heating & job board. Bold, curious, loving, strong. T...

We have made common journey to find each other in the intensity of this moment that we meet. We get whole-body relief, that they are here, pouring out their trust and we reply in kind.  And quickly after that, a pact of mutual loyalty. What can I do for you? Share laughter. Best wishes. Willingness to work. Music.  In the Earthchxrch we are feeling a community grow. Why is this a threat and not a...

The scripted fictions - little staged videos - depicting young migrants fighting police  and shoplifting in Times Square, and then the spewing of hate from police/governor/mayor  right on cue...  All this drives us underground. We'll be non-official radical volunteers as  New York City forsakes Lady Liberty and does its best imitation of Alabama. We'll find non-professional  partners to ride the E...

The fearful hate retreats in the face of the vision of freedom for all, especially for the people of the global south who have suffered at the hands of White Nationalist Neo-Liberal Capitalism. At the Earthchxrch we welcome the Newest New Yorkers, about a hundred mostly West African young men each day. They join us at 36 Loisaida Ave (Ave C) in the East Village - each weekday from 8 am to 4 pm. On...

A hard-right Christian punched my lights out while I was preaching about Peace. But evil is dynamic. It moves. Evil flows in a river of happenstance and purpose and pain and laughter. Fearful fascists can be looked in the eye and appealed to. The Devil can change his mind. Look, I have Evil in my life like everybody else. In this episode of Earth Riot, the 102nd weekly broadcast of this show, I te...

He recently said “The flood of immigrants coming here - will destroy New York City. And it’s coming to a neighborhood near you.” Oh, really? And are they druggies and rapists? The migration, 200,000 souls in NYC in the last year and a half, is exactly what we need, and it is what we are. The meaning of the 22-story-high female jurist standing in our harbor, with a torch raised, is that we welcome...

Since the Earth's crisis gives us months or maybe years, gradualism is a faster kind of suicide. Every one of our prayers needs to be like an ambulance, flooring it right at the emergency. Scientists say that most of reality is a whirlwind of subatomic particles called Dark Energy. So, we are stranded on a desperate little human island, while Dark Energy rages bafflingly over and through everythin...

The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but the message is simple-- Love is the only way to survive. Working with his collaborator Lou Adler, Neil Young tells a hundred stories with this record, some achingly personal and many universal. Neil and Daryl Hannah remind us that with Love, we can ris...

This year, we are the Earth. We're feeling good about the activism we have tried, but the Earth creates our direct action with the radical example of the Evolution of Species. And that is a Hell of Fierce Thing. We will fly over, dig under, camouflage in plain sight. We will grow claws, fins, re-growable tails and distributed intelligence like Octopuses. The government’s and corporations cannot fi...

You have to spike your mind with science fiction, to get Big Oil's Evil. The super-rich are doing with superstorms and wildfires what the Israelis are doing with American bombs.  COP28 confirms it. The Oilies believe that they can steer the planet’s heat. Yes, they are strategic climate-makers now, which must be something like being God. Or, the Devil. It’s a world-ending profit center! They belie...

This week's "Earth Riot Radio" features Hopi sunrise music, Earth Firster Dave Foreman, Earth News with Savitri D, Ojibwe music of Maureen Noodin, jazz from Fiery Eagles of Justice, and songs of the Stop Shopping Choir.  Climate change also changes the passing of time and the ability to remember. Last week’s promise by fossil reps to “transition” to safe energy feels a century old. The 6th Extinct...

In this week's Earth Riot Radio and our live stage show Sundays the 10th and 17th, (LiveStreamed at https://www.youtube.com/JoespubNY), we explore the intimidating challenge of Making Peace in 2023. Peace is Life. Peace is the Earth. Peace is forests, wetlands, high plains, and coral reefs - ecosystems that live in steady balance, changing but flourishing over time. Human culture works that way, t...

….and News from the Natural World with Savitri D and The Sixth Extinction with the Stop Shopping Choir, coming to you directly from the Earthchxrch in New York.  We speak with Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, and her friend, the Conscientious Objector to the Master Narrative - Dr. Alnoor Ladha. "Psychedelic Civil Disobedience" might describe the world-saving mental-emotional reo...

Our Earth-Killing system veils the connection between Consumerism and Militarism, a fundamental connection.  But this current war doesn't pass the common sense test for most Consumers. Controlling our sense of right and wrong is a primary goal of the Consumerist project. Marketers are holding their breath as the war in the Mideast and the Ukraine feature murders of innocents in the broad daylight...

Our task for more than 20 years running has been to dramatize Consumerism, the biggest and baddest fundamentalist religion in the US.  But we've never had a holiday shopping season kick-off that shows us the violence of our Consumerism as vividly- as this year's Black Friday. We didn't choose an easy issue. Consumerism, the cultural enforcement arm of Capitalism, is everywhere and nowhere-- always...

The protection of innocent children and families are enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights that Eleanor Roosevelt read to our nation in the late 40's.  The US has not lived up to that pledge. The suffering and early death of so many innocent people in the colonial wars in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Chile and Iraq also impacted home life upon the soldier's return, as divorces and suicides soared...

We're caught here in the musical language of the Earth, which can caress us or unleash natural disasters at us, but the Earth is saying something and we need to hear it. It does feel too late. And sometimes our Earthchxrch singing slides into a dirge. Usually, we are ecstatic and our neighborhood sees us in the windows acting like holy rollers. The Earth is our musical teacher, our maestro. When w...

There’s too much fame everywhere, a false fluorescent stain on every face. In this Earth Riot, we recall those who earned good fame. And we badly need a new public figure for our self-induced apocalypse. Consumerized fame, the monetizing of reputations - isn’t just a distraction. Commercial fame isn’t just lots of celebrities - manufactured flesh products. Fame is one product, one forever chemical...

The spectacle and tragedy of war is upon us, history haunting us as old wars flare up again. And then there is the Earth's violence, which is really saying something. Because the Earth is intelligent, alive, conscious, and we in the Earth Riot Radio community, centered around the Eartchxrch in New York, we believe that our liberation from fundamentalist religions, strong men, technological warfare...

Openly killing innocent people – this violence goes into our bodies and changes us all. Peace is also in our bodies, and that's the encouraging thing. The Earth puts this Peace in us. Peace is a part of life. Peace is in motion. We need to discover Peace every day. If we continue to ask, "What is Peace today?" we invite the Earth to create stronger resistance. What is Peace? Our solution blows in...

The history that we make is converted immediately to conspiracy. Our memories are Facebook pages. You swipe your card, and have a heavy, romantic date with a stranger arranged by a corporation.  We are supposed to be lost in a False World. That's good for the economy. That's prosperity. That's America. The total invasion of an internal, private life by the investor class. We are very close to the...

Many are dedicated to our favorite ideas about improving things, people, and the Earth-- many of us know something is happening that changes everything. We are making decisions about our activism for the Earth,as we always have. We remember social movements in the past. And then, we apply the experiences from Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, ACT UP, and many more to our present situation. But we are ...

People with a conscience for human life and the Earth are bursting with emotion, information, artistry, and legal counter-offensives against the fossil fuel industry. There will soon be a response to the fires and floods by the mass of people deemed "violent." Unlike the current violence by the fossil banks and oil companies, which causes cities to burst into flames and drown in avalanches and oce...

Chase Bank, BlackRock, and CitiBank show no signs of backing off their trillions in toxins. Climate Week in New York City will have its inventive gestures, a few arrests, and bank employees distracted for a couple of hours. Stopping oil, though, will take a revolution, not a protest. Revolution is not just cultural, or pixelated, or a mile of marching. The gap between protest and revolution has be...

But didn't we invent hope? We began as the nation whose name meant "Dream Big."  The American Dream killed the people who lived here and stole people from their lives in Africa. And now the climate is killing the killers here as the Earth evolves its next life. The top banker says that to give up the poisons would be "America going to Hell". We look away. We gather in arenas, cheering wildly, look...