Earth Riot Radio

Our Activism Fails. The exotic and serene and vast landscape, the great bed of love is poisoned by fossil toxins. Climate Week wants a direction. Well, read the instructions of a hurricane with rooftops spinning like frisbees. Oh help us! Let love fill us with the Earth's expectations and we will face the killers. We will find stronger activism in the very thing we are trying to defend...birth, de...

So many young people come out of their very young years looking the polluter generations in the eye. They make basic things clear about survival and right and wrong. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is the most obvious of our climate criminals. We don't have that many gangsters at his level. He puts his trillions behind the fabulous profits made by putting carbon into the air. He killed the Paris Cli...

On one side, human violence: War, Trump, starvation, toxins, etc. On the other side, the more creative violence of the Earth: like a hurricane in the Pacific. Caught between humanity and the Earth, we are trapped. And what are we doing? We're passive. As consumers, we believe we can be bystanders. In the EarthChxrch, we suggest that you side with the Earth. The Earth is teaching us how to be radic...

The history-killing heat waves, wars, 100-degree ocean, glacial floods, and on and on in a new normal of horror, makes us want to change completely. The necessary revolution is here in this extraordinary moment. Our only task is to live up to it. The Earth's 6th Extinction is not demanding a response within our quiver of desire, or our strategy, or even our reverence. It is happening, that's all....

And this applies to the climate crisis, too. Only revolution can make peace. Real change always involves the sacrifice of life.  We are allowing the powerful to amass unprecedented fortunes from mass murder, and they are raking in the billions in plain sight. People seem locked in passivity. The CO2 increases in the atmosphere every month. If a few of us would risk life and limb to oppose the foss...

But we are looking for a kind of conversation in public space that is as regular and full or neighborly affection as it is, in 2023 at least, a revolution in communication. The stories blow in the wind in one direction more than any other direction, and that is called “Culture". The absence of a sensible delivery system for spoken word stories is the key to why we are not communicating about the E...

It is where Human and Earth Rights are the same. Walking into the property of Power and declaring your freedom. To walk across the property line of an Earth criminal like JPMorgan Chase or British Petroleum or Monsanto/Bayer is to enjoy a jolt of honesty. It feels like fresh mountain air. To walk across the racist part of the Senate, or the sexist part of sports or religion or health... These are...

The passivity of human beings in the face of the fossil killing fields... that is the riddle of our age. If we go ahead with our current shrug of the shoulders, we are offering up our children to early death. Why? Yes, we do have an alternative. That would be - ending our opposition to the vivid process of life that is demonstrated everywhere around us by legions of living things. The Earth is our...

Here at the hottest day in history is MAGA Republicans fear making violence directly, as surely as their friends the NRA encourage mass shootings. Are the fear-mongers impressed that their climate science denial became so real, so fast? For those of us who recognized the truth in the warnings by scientists going back 30 years, and who sensed in the deniers a dangerous kind of spiteful rejection of...

All the words we should have used to explain to one another the deadly importance of the climate crisis are Consumerized.  We’ve got to be surreal. We’ve got to be exorcised. We’ve got to be impossible sometimes, to understand. Got to fly from the edge of the cliff. We are weightless now. We are falling through natural disasters and we don’t know how to talk to the Earth. All we can say is “This i...

Things happen in the US that our words don't reach. We shout, scream, shoot bullets  but none of what we do is a realistic response to the Earth's crisis.  We need logic more like the surrealism of evolution. We need common sense more like the paranormal intuition of a psychic who has a crying jag. We have murdered so many people that we have created a new creation-wide level of lamentation, a moa...

Consumerized Capitalism is designed to multiply our product choices while taking away from us the one choice that matters. We live in the natural world. It turns out that is a science fiction concept. That is why in our Earthchxrch today we feature Ursula K. Le Guin. e feature Jordan Neely, who moon-walked in the tunnels under New York City until his anxieties excited a certain ex-marine to violen...

What kind of people would we be, if we were so powerful that we successfully defended the Earth? It happens once in a while, some of us are possessed. Call it "Justice Possessed". Black Lives Matter, ACT UP, Standing Rock, Occupy Wall Street, The Rapist in Your Path, #metoo... Many of us have never been that possessed. Many of us think of a revolutionary as someone in the distant past. No, now it'...

History was made by men triumphing over nature. Now the Earth makes history. Earth has the right approach to the 6th Extinction. Engaging the human predator with its ungodly violence; filling us with fear so that we need strongmen and cruel armies. But our weak violence only spins us out. The Earth's power is greater by many orders of magnitude. How can we join up?

This week's show will take you into extinction like the dinosaurs - turn into birds and fly away! Savitri D, John Trudell, Leila Adu, Francisca Benitez, Jason Candler & The Stop Shopping Choir help us mutate right out of this Apocalypse. Fossil fuel power has taken over much of the known world. And the toxins are killing us. The Earth is the activist that teaches us. She knows what she is doing. T...

These two artists passed on within days of one another last December, and it seems like yesterday. They were dear friends of the Church of Stop Shopping. Hamish was best known for his band The Clean, and John for his Afro-Dixie Mixtapes. Ambitious artists could wish to leave for the world such luminous gifts. But “....our little life / Is rounded with a sleep." We can't know whether what we make w...

Our action against fossil fuel violence is not more violence - but the world of cultural resistance is still open to us. It is not exhausted.  Lately, the culture seems not alive to many of us, as all expression from any source is swallowed whole by the virtual reality bubble of corporate marketing supported by big money and militaristic police. We seem paralyzed in TikTok's irrelevance. The scree...

Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir come to Joe's Pub on May 7 & 14 at 4pm, JoesPub.com/tickets. It's three blocks from where Jordon Neely was murdered. The buskers, the doowop groups, the jugglers, Mariachi combo and rappers, and the Michael Jackson moon-walkers like Jordon Neely, killed by an ex-marine/son of a cop from Long Island. A light was extinguished, lighting up of the underground c...

The violence is rolling through our lives like unknowable deadly weather. The politicians are proud to not respond. Bad weather is just liberal hysteria. We develop secret faiths, under the surface with its greasy neon. Deep down inside as the storms and wildfires and starvation and war are accepted prefabricated fascism out in the open. But deep inside new stories unfold like luminescent flowers...

We have Actual Reality and we have a lot of Virtual Reality in this episode too...We have to know the difference...We live in a highly mediated mindscape, with the immersion in corporate marketing the fundamentalist ritual practice of ordinary living in America. In our Earth Riot this week our show of the Actual is a preaching by Bertha Lewis in the year of Occupy Wall Street. She addresses the "C...

And with this April 16 Sunday, LiveStreamed 3pm New York time, (link at Revbilly.com) we cross into our second year of this experiment. We bring humor and music and a kind of DIY spirituality to our defense of the Earth. Thank you for being with this in this work (and this play). May the Earth's crisis evolve in such a way that we can have a life and in our living share this planet with all life. ...

Anne and Paul Ehrlich wrote: “Evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious transformation of cultural values.”                                                              Passover and Easter are liberation stories, from Egypt & from Rome; into the Promised Land & into the miracle of Life After Death. Christians & Jews celebrate control over the Earth, its storms & bodies of water & animals. ...

For the Earth: We Must Boycott the ‘New Reality’ that the world’s most valuable company says will replace the iPhone. Governments and corporations have separated us from the Earth via gradualism. Somehow we ended up in our apartments with the Earth only coming to us as decorative shrubbery or background in movies, while gas & oil & plastics kill everything in sight. But with ‘New Reality Pro’ the...

If the Earth is intelligent— if the Gaia Theory is true, then she wouldn't want to live in the role of every human beings' "Other", and neither would I. This is exactly what we have done, to storms and floods, starvation and drought, heatwave and novel viruses. We colonize when we separate these disasters from each other and pretend that each is a stand alone event. Climate science denial is one t...

The first song in today's Earth Riot asks, "What did they do to the great outdoors?". The Fabulous Unknown would be a better description of the natural world than the “great outdoors”. The word "Great"— how can we decolonize that word and heal from there?   Some people who have been called "Great" also seem to have The Fabulous Unknown of the natural world in them. Wangari Maathai, Muhammad Ali, C...