Extinction Rebellion Radio

In this episode, we feature a teach-in conducted by Triple Justice on the climate crisis and on People's Assemblies as a powerful tool to address the crisis.

Extinction Rebellion activists planned a protest at the Gardner Museum in Boston, comparing the famous theft of its paintings to mass extinction. It did not go as planned. But it did end up as front page news. We talk with the organizers to understand what happened and what we can learn about activism from this experience. This episode was hosted by Matthew Kearney and Karen Elterman. Sound editin...

In this episode we are talking about the weather: the longest storm ever - a cyclone lasting 36 days. Mudslides faster than cars. Floods around the globe. And if you want to protest inaction on the climate crisis, then don't bother going to COP 28 in the UAE because protesting there will be illegal. Do you see the COP pattern yet?

In this episode, we discuss the Biden Administration's approval of the murderous 'Willow' drilling project in Alaska, the death of a climate activist at Cop City in Atlanta, and a possible connection between tornadoes and the climate crisis.

In this episode we take a look at the U.S. Supreme Court -- its capture by radical religious right-wing billionaires, and what that means for climate activists.

We say 5 degrees, you say 3 degrees! Let's call the whole thing off! Why are some respected climate journalists spinning the yarn that there's now cause for optimism because (they say - no science backs this up) we're headed for a three rather than a five degree Celcius global temperature increase? We've got a few answers for you, and the movie Network provided at least one: "The world is a busine...

In this episode, we say goodbye to WBAI and open up a new chapter for Extinction Rebellion Radio! We also discuss the recent Lützerath resistance: in western Germany, where there's a proposed mine for an especially dirty form of coal, climate activists occupied the mine site for months, putting their bodies on the line to save our planet. We also discuss XR UK's 'We Quit' announcement and ponder t...

In this episode, guest contributor Kathryn Sullivan interviews XR San Francisco Bay Area and XR New York City activists. This is the first installment of what we hope will be an occasional segment hearing from Extinction Rebellion chapters from around the country. We want to share our news, strategies, shortcomings, innovations, and celebrations. Ultimately, we hope to weave together what we are d...

In this episode, guest contributor Kathryn Sullivan interviews XR Washington, D.C. and XR Boston activists. This is the second installment of what we hope will be an occasional segment hearing from Extinction Rebellion chapters from around the country. We want to share our news, strategies, shortcomings, innovations, and celebrations. Ultimately, we hope to weave together what we are doing locally...

In this episode, guest contributor Kathryn Sullivan interviews XR Capitol Region and XR Upstate New York activists. This is the first installment of what we hope will be an occasional segment hearing from Extinction Rebellion chapters from around the country. We want to share our news, strategies, shortcomings, innovations, and celebrations. Ultimately, we hope to weave together what we are doing...

bell hooks, the great social justice writer, died one year ago, and in this episode we celebrate her life and work. We also speak with Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou, founder and inaugural Director of the bell hooks Center at Berea College, where bell hooks completed her teaching career. [Broadcast on December 18, 2022]

Governments from around the world gathered in Egypt to perform a ritual of talking about climate change while doing absolutely nothing to halt our unfolding climate crisis. And no surprise there: like last year, the fossil fuel industry constituted the biggest unofficial delegation at COP27, a delegation that continues to steer humanity toward collective disaster, if not extinction. [Broadcast on...

In the wake of the United Nation's announcement that the world's population reached 8 billion, Matthew goes solo and revisits Paul R. Ehrlich's controversial 1968 book Population Bomb. (Broadcast on November 20, 2022)

Buy Nothing. That’s the tag line for a consumer practice - maybe we can even call it a movement - that tries to meet all of our material needs (other than food) with re-used stuff, which in the process decreases waste and carbon production. This week guest host Karen Elterman speaks with Larry Yu about the growing movement to Buy Nothing. (Broadcast on November 13, 2022).

The imbeciles are in charge. That’s what it seems like to fair-minded observers like your friendly neighborhood radio hosts. For this episode, we talk about the bad decisions governments around the world are making to fire up coal power plants, and we discuss what they might do instead. (Broadcast on November 6, 2022)

From Yosemite to Pakistan, with Hurricane Ian in between: so much of our world is either under water or on fire. And yes - it’s because of climate change. [Broadcast on October 16, 2022]

If the U.S. is behind the apparent sabotage last month of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline - which resulted in the release of an estimated 300,000 metric tons of methane into the atmosphere - then that must be a game-changer for climate resistance [Broadcast on October 16, 2022].

It might seem extravagant to talk about wine at a time of climate crisis, but actually wine is an example of how agriculture is changing around the world due to global heating. For this episode we speak with David Siozard from Siozard Estates in Bordeaux. We hear from him about how global heating is shifting the growing season earlier, which risks frozen grapes and production losses. [Broadcast on...

"Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction?" That is the question posed in the recently published research article “Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios.” To talk about this “dangerously underexplored topic,” we’ve invited on our show Luke Kemp, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential...

In this episode, we speak with Jamie McGonagill about XR Boston's September Rebellion - nine days of climate action and events that started on September 18, 2022. Jamie is XR Boston's Media and Messaging Coordinator. [Broadcast September 19, 2022]

"When do we say 'no'? When is enough enough?" For this episode, we answer these two questions posed last week by Jean Su, Director of the Energy Justice Program at the Center for Biological Diversity, in our conversation about the poison pills contained in the Democrats' IRA. It's time to say "no!" Right now. Enough is enough!

This week we welcome on our show Jean Su, Director of the Energy Justice Program and Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. Our topic of conversation: the climate poison pills buried in the Inflation Reduction Act that was recently passed by Senate Democrats. [Broadcast on August 9, 2022]

In this Episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio, we talk about our burning planet. [Broadcast on July 19, 2022]

In this episode we speak with Derek Seidman, research director of the Public Accountability Initiative - also known as LittleSis - about mapping out corporate power to support the climate movement. After you listen, check out the LittleSis toolkit to start power mapping the Rebellion! https://littlesis.org/toolkit [Broadcast on June 21, 2022]

In this episode, James Comiskey and Michael Kozuch of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Boston give a queer twist to the XR climate talk. [Originally broadcast on February 8, 2022]