Earth Riot Radio

"Progress" in the sense of Republican profits is the kind of thing we needed to ban many years ago. At this point, as the Sixth Extinction drowns 1,500 Pakistanis and the investor class drinks a toast to murder, we must imagine a kind of progress that starts with love and forgiveness. And goes from there to riding the waves of calving glaciers and collapsing jet-streams. Our future, if we are bein...

We can't catch up the Earth no matter how hard we try. Numbers and tech and human efforts to defeat the catastrophes we invented are no match for the energy of the Earth. With Saint Barbara Erenreich and The Stop Shopping Choir and News from The Natural World.

The Big Lie is everywhere. It's the atmosphere, it's glyphosates, it's radiation, it's the ultimate poison. The Big Lie comes in many forms, from QAnon to the Atom Bomb. But it's so saturating, that if we walk along the sidewalk and encounter someone telling the truth, those words hit us like magic mushrooms. To sell the simple truth is now, in 2022, to be a radical revolutionary. Join us. The Ear...

We environmentalists must move our point of view from the center of human power to a point in outer space, back somewhere in the early days of the big bang. Then maybe we can overpower these gods that make poisoning the Earth sensible. We are marching toward men marching toward us. They have a god above them, who guarantees their eternal life. The god is Krishna, Jesus, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Don...

As the big institutions try to spread their life sentences, they are stopped by love. It’s the same old story and that old story of erotic romance is making a comeback as the libraries are burned down by fear of sex and foreigners.  The books are in our bodies and we dance away. We sing our strong beliefs in the songs in today's Earth Church radio show... The title track of our new record "Change...

Most of us know how we will be required to be far more radical than we have been, and very soon. We have quietly agreed with ourselves that we will try to work with the complete collapse of this thing called civilization. Personal extreme change will match the conditions of the Earth's release of fire and flood, virus and death in this Sixth Extinction. Covid, Black Lives Matter and the Ukraine In...

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...

No matter how bad the floods and diseases and storms get, most of here in consumerized Americak keep basking in gradualism. It isn't really happening...not yet.   And when I say God I mean celebrities, the first crypto million, and the hope that we will all have one more moment of unexpected sex. What do we really worship? What were we worshipping when the Earth slipped us through the door to our...

The planet is spinning toward extinction. We might survive if we learn how to spin with it. When a glacier the size of Manhattan melts and disappears, then we have to melt, too. There is no history that we know of to deal with what is happening. We can't even make the phrase "extinction" popular enough to help people steal it back from blockbuster films and video games. We have to try every dance,...

A barrier to mounting powerful actions for species and ecosystems is the loss of forgiveness. We face self-blame for the ineffectiveness of environmentalism. We give ourselves unrealistic schedules of work. We can be harder on ourselves than the polluters because we are more familiar with the facts of the crisis, which are devastating.   This is a time of name-calling and finger-pointing, and it's...

Something happened on the way to the 11th rally and march. After the Supremes ruling gutted the EPA, we went down to Foley Square, site of the NY State Supreme Court, to what? To make new climate change relationships... All the groups were there, from Sunrise to Extinction Rebellion. Each carries its own history of brazen love struggling against the traditions of fear.  The Supremes are betting th...

The spinning wet white-and-blue rock that we call home is completely outside the systems of governance that order society. It is extreme and changing radically in all directions. Our only hope is to connect with the Earth with an invented and secret way of life, evolving into a personal wildness.

Our 'Stop Shopping' community has landed in a great urban gospel tradition of the storefront church. Every Sunday at 5:00 pm we gather in the empty branch bank on Ave C & East 3rd St in New York's East Village. The "nabe" is all the races, though the famous local culture is "Loisaida" -- the presence of Puerto Rican culture is strong. Our songs are about the Earth's crisis but belted out as gospel...

It isn't clear to us how to pass into the cloud of nothingness that already claims so many lives. How do we warn others, and is survival to be the only project of our lives?  We send signals into the unfathomable extinction like bats and their echolocation. And we listen.  

The suicide and murder epidemic by children?  Children cannot grow up in the this monoculture.  Children breakdown as their families and communities explode.  Why is this happening?  Because love’s destruction is identified as a profit center.         We have made the violent movie that we can’t stop. The Earth, though, is not helpless. The Earth has new life, new love and new caring.  But the sto...

I propose that we revisit the Earth Riot of March 6, with Ukraine freshly invaded, with the onset of the old-fashioned war, a sort-of-like-World-War-2 war. The trial of today's Bonnie and Clyde -- Johnny and Amber -- was beginning to form in the Covid-addled mind of America. In the past 90 days, "eras" have passed. The culture is spinning out of any kind of gravity. There's no plan. The future is...

A young girl sits in a window of the projects. She watches an oak as it goes under the chainsaw. The park has been sold to someone. The man starts cutting the branches that look like gestures. The oak is older than her parents. It has always been there. A loud machine chews it to bits. Protesters down there are dressed up like deer, carrying signs and chanting. The girl watches the deer dancing, w...

Putin's drilling became murder in broad daylight. Exxon & JPMorgan Chase do the same thing. Is Pakistan and India's heat wave cooling from 110 degrees? Is the fire season already started? Chase's Jamie Dimon is the prince of New York. He makes almost $100k each day. Gaseous toxins from his investments make climate murder every day. What's his body-count? He is the prince of ashes.

Mother’s Day and Jane Jacobs' birthday set up a report of our activism for Mother Earth.  We push our secular hot-as-hell Earth Church up against the threatened forest along the river and then we are hand-cuffed somewhere in that sing-along because there were chainsaw people interrupted by our concert and so it’s off to jail... which happens to be on the same street as the Church, so it’s easy to...

The youth among the Earth defenders, from tweeners to college debtors, are fierce like the folks in Earth First and Redwood Summer. They arrive with a reckoning, a moral sureness. In this "Earth Church of the Air" we meet an eco-Marxist named Kala, a holistic healer named Wally, and Ariella -- freshly returned from jail for singing in a tree surrounded by men with chainsaws.  Ariella is one of fou...

Our empire has wolves and goddesses at the gate. And super storms, a hundred wildfires in California and a virus that has not begun to fight. Let's make our way back, return to the wilderness that we conquered with our paradise of pavement and fumes... It's possible that we are still invited to this beautiful planet.

Now, we know we must reach out to our old enemy, the Earth! We thought we could conquer the Earth...but that didn't work out so well.

The birds are singing one more time, and the turtles find the sun on the log and the eagle surveys Brooklyn from underneath the landing jets. It's all strange but it isn't too strange until it's actually killing us and OH -- RIGHT -- IT ACTUALLY IS KILLING US. We keep forgetting the Extinction is serious. The Earth is who we pray to for guidance in this time of TOTAL CHANGE. Damn!   

Most of us know how we will be required to be far more radical than we have been, and very soon. We have quietly agreed with ourselves that we will try to work with the complete collapse of this thing called civilization. Personal extreme change will match the conditions of the Earth's release of fire and flood, virus and death in this Sixth Extinction. Covid, Black Lives Matter and the Ukraine In...