Earth Riot Radio

The surviving warrior, Angela Davis, speaks with young, gifted and black students in Toni Morrison's hometown. "I am no longer accepting things that I cannot change; I am changing things I cannot accept. I am everyday associated with a people who refuse to give up! Not only that - a people who have created in the process of the struggle - beauty!"  ---  Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Earth, what do yo...

If I had an indigenous imagination (maybe even a little part of mind) and I was dedicated to defending the Earth but I was exposed 8 hours a day to TikTok, would my activism survive? Would I be able to focus on the toxicity in the investments of fossil banks, and dramatize this crime? Environmentalism was at once based on eloquent essays. Ecological conscience was grounded in research, impactful d...

Consumerism micro-manages our bodies. Retail spaces require that we walk/reach/grab and return to the cash register, all surveilled and monitored by security. Gestures deemed Inappropriate by police are the justification for murders of the unarmed. Our dramatic work in the lobbies of JPMorgan Chase has evolved since our first direct action in this “king of climate crime” in 2007. This year in 2023...

Most of us back away from divisive fear. We do that instinctively. While most of us Earth-defenders are closer to the people called "Woke" by the Right, it's also true that most of us don't like to point fingers and accuse. But let the Earth show the way... The Earth isn't binary. A boreal forest of a long-grass prairie are the coming together of many species with many qualities, and human beings...

Savitri D, Joan Baez, Sunder Ganglani, Leila Adu Tortuguita Imagination Courage THELIVINGFOREST. Death Sex Mutation 6TH EXTINCTION. Sky Unity Singing JUSTICE.  Yes, review life again and again, around & around led by the women. Because why are we passive in the face of the interruption of life by fossil fuel profiteers and their police. Our powerful ally is life itself. So let's review. But not Di...

Walk in the canyon of urban pressure and now it's not just concrete and pavement, its sky and the depths. Music is the way that the sacrifice community brings the powerful to their sins. A refinery kills children and music bridges to the executive suite, to the Rolls and the Rolex. In this half-hour we go from a jaywalker with painful visions to Dr. King, an anthem of freedom, urban free jazz and...

The intellection is more intense in revolutions. And the sex is hotter and the death is sooner and everything is different.  And we need a revolution badly with the Earth’s crisis.  But we seem to be rejecting revolution as if it is a product that we refuse to buy.  Well, we are consumers.  And consumers will kill us all by not buying our life for us. Our only choice is to destroy the consumer wit...

Emergencies won't exist in the traditional ways when there is nothing on the surface of the planet but natural disasters. We have many small dramas but then there is the Great Extinction. Then there is Apocalypse that invents future life by punching our ticket.

We can joke and cry about it, and find the usual climate criminals in it, but the suffering is the thing. Our prayers and thoughts are with our friends and loved ones in California. The Himalayan mountains are melting and Pakistan is drowning, the heatwaves and blizzards come hotter and colder and stay longer, and now these Atmospheric Rivers are pouring down on the Golden State. The jetstreams ar...

The people who set up the COP conferences invite billionaires and their enabling professionals to a poker game with a large herd of aggrieved advocates. The game is rigged, but it takes ten days. But that is the essential story of the conference, until now. With the physical environment so clearly deadly, the question "How will we survive" is bringing back the emotions of decency. Good people who...

Where did the future go?  It feels like the future no longer waits beyond the next moment. The Ukraine War is a miniature replay of World War 2… Trump is like Huey Long crossed with Bozo. The Museum of Modern Art still tries to scandalize us with futurists from the past.  Covid is the Creature of the Black Lagoon. What do we expect of our future as we cross the threshold of the New Year? All optim...

Getting comfortable with the natural world is a good thing to do for the holidays. We have this task, find the fabulous unknown in the ecosystem you love and make your body a part of that ecosystem. Are you facing a forest? An alpine meadow? A wetlands? High Plains Desert? That is your great grift here at the turn of the year. Now close your eyes, your favorite ecosystem is inside your beautiful b...

John Sims & Hamish Kilgour: Music Wizards If life in these times is a Dangerous Ride then some of us have the instinct to take it fast with the Radio Loud. Life for us in the risk-it-all 21st Century. Everybody in an official capacity is a pirate.   The Good are low-balling it and the Worst are healed and focussed. And We know that the Earth is in charge and we are trying to get the signals. Meanw...

Emerging from violent censorship, Angela Davis' teaching and Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" lead off our new effort at "Green Showbiz". These women’s beliefs in Peace and Freedom and Beauty and Community and the Earth ...These are flight paths to Intersectional Compassion.  Dr. Davis emerges from censorship to inspire. The word Spirit is there within the word inspire. Joel Kov...

The evil of Hitler and Hirohito was clear. In 2022 the investor class is openly reaping profits from toxic gasses and it is killing everyone. Every day the celebrity billionaires are in the news, unchallenged.   The Earth is the radical today. The Earth is doing things that no-one thought possible. The Himalayan mountains are melting? There were people who didn't want to believe that Hitler was po...

The rapacious shopping economy has been our devil for 20 years in the Church of Stop Shopping. But that doesn't matter.   Because this week the zombie tsunami crashes on us all. The News from the Natural World in this Earth Riot episode is breath-taking in the finality of it violence. And meanwhile we shout Earthalujah!!! ...because we are grateful that life evolves, and our dead bodies are releas...

The investor class is not just callous and probably criminal. They seem to have no idea what Justice means. The nations and tribal people of the global south, struggling with drought, floods, fires, mudslides, sea-rise, aka Climate Chaos... are in Egypt calling out to the toxic profiteers in the north and getting endless negotiations and debt-trap loans. They are an echo from centuries of coloniza...

A Forest Lets Out the Liberators in Jails Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila...   My attempt to translate the Earth's language is guided by these special teachers. First, I try to leap over Trump's wall, where I have been trapped by my name - William. And later in the riot I look for a new kind of media f...

The riddle of our time is, "How can we be passive in the face of the Earth's crisis?" The answer is, we are in a trance state induced by extreme Consumerism. We are coming to understand that Consumerism, the enforcement arm of Capitalism, is deadly in large doses. In New York, a recent study reported, we can experience 10,000 advertisements daily. In the life-and-death emergency in which we find o...

How do we start actions over? Start by living in the present tense, that vivid moving thing. In consumer society, which imitates the old religions and fascism -We are distracted away from what we are doing now. Our present tense life is an infinite source and is where the forest we are walking in comes through to us. It is where the alliance with the Earth comes from. It is impossible to imagine p...

And don't forget to glue yourself to the museum wall. And dance with Pussy Riot on the altar. Before the revolution, nobody knows what to do, so Evolve with nature and be extreme. Earthalujah!     Come to revbilly.com for directions. Oct 23 Earthchurch in New York. Oct 30 Earthchurch in London. Live and LiveStream! Amen! This episode has since been re-uploaded after a publishing error.

Jason and I send the radio segments back and forth and back and forth again. We build the show that way. So this week, I completed the two minute “Goodbye and Thank You!” segment, before we had discovered the tape of Angela Davis speaking at the Washington D.C. Women's March, which is now the says-it-all climax of the show. So thank you so much Angela Davis. I'm expressing my gratitude here, with...

Can we be so extreme that we are realistic? When will our activism rise to the occasion? How could the stakes be more life and death?   Is there a human expression that gives the meaning of the melting of the Himalayas, the ocean currents changing direction, the wave of silence called the Sixth Extinction? Is the moral equivalent of war still missing, tragically missing? Oh, to be human in this ti...

We are calling out Jamie Dimon's $5.5 Billion loan to the TransCanada pipeline threatening sovereign Wet’suwet’en territories in British Columbia. We entered the Sacred State of Exalted Embarrassment, and for a few moments our deeply held values aligned with our actions.  The Earth is guiding our new politics as we connect with the incredible fight of Wet'suwet'en Protectors. Like the atmosphere,...

Two I’s make We! We is a community. They is a crowd. We as a community can never be defeated, Stay STRONG!” The great artist and activist Vinie Burrows leads to a life of creativity and peace. Plus Aspens, Ants and Hurricane Fiona.