The Earth Wants YOU!

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Billy and Savitri have returned from Greece and introduce their new global social movement #touristsagainsttrump We also plan for Thursdays What Would You Pack? deportee solidarity action at Foley square in Manhattan. Later we have an interview from Greece with Daniel Wetzel a veteran of radical experimental theatre.

This Week On The Earth Wants YOU! We get an update from Savitri and Billy from Greece and their #touristsagainsttrump protests in Athens. The Stop Shopping Choir have a round table discussion over the action. We have Peter Rugh from The Indypendent in the studio to discuss his recent arrest in New Jersey and their victory in getting newspaper boxes back on the streets in record time. We also have...

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Savitri and Reverend Billy are still in Greece and give us an update on their travels and how it feels to be in the philosophical basin of the world while the Trump regime rages on in the US. Sarah Schulman joins us again for an interview about how to build a successful movement, how Act UP acted and what tactics are necessary to make some change. We have music fr...

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Sarah Schulman comes in for an interview about the history of AIDS in New York and how the first step is always activism. The Water Crisis dominates the news. Before that we have notes from Athens sent to us by Savitri and Billy as they tour Greece.

This week we bring a bonus episode of The Earth Wants YOU! produced in collaboration with Sprouts, radio from the grassroots. We continue the story of the Sanctuary movement in New York City. We focus on the activities of ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) in the US and how the public have reacted. We follow the activism of immigrant rights groups in New York City such as Reverend Billy an...

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Glen Cantave joins us. Glen is the founder of Movers and Shakers a coalition that executes direct action and advocacy campaigns for marginalized communities using virtual reality, augmented reality and the creative arts. He talks about being in Charlottesville confronting white nationalists, hope in the age of Trump and how to be an effective activist. Also this w...

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We discuss the recent death of trans refugee Roxana Hernandez who was failed by the State recently and paid the price with her life, dying in ICE custody. We demand justice. The iconic Ashley Brockington comes in to discuss the changing face of New York City's weird and wild scene at which shes been the centre of for decades. Reverend Billy preaches up a storm and...

This Week At The Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy and Savitri D, bring in Mark and Emer, two young Irish people who flew home to vote in the recent momentous referendum to Repeal the 8th Amendment in Ireland which prohibited abortion. We also discuss the battle to Save Union Square, the tactics which were used and the creative actions that took place. We have the Irish Pine Martin as our extinct an...

This week on The Earth Wants YOU! We talk about Irelands upcoming referendum to Repeal the 8th ammendment, we listen to the long and scary News From the Natural World, we celebrate the Royal Wedding with a song from PJ Harvey and interview two longtime Brooklyn Activists about how to improve our neighbourhood and protest effectively.

A World Without Birdsong and Wind by The Church of Stop Shopping

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We have an energetic episode with Mo Beasley from FUREE(Families United For Racial and Economic Equality). Reverend Billy reports from the hearing of Ravi Ragbir, Savitri D gives us the News of the Natural World, Larry Harvey is remembered and Travis Tench from the Stop Shopping Choir eats a salad.

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy is out of town, Savitri D brings us the story of la Zad (Zone A Defendre) in Nantes which was attacked by 2500 French police this month. John Jordan from The Laboratory of Insurrection, who has lived there for several years, joins us for an interivew.

Today on The Earth Wants YOU! We deal with the tragic shadow in our New York neighborhoods, the abductions of long-time New Yorkers, fathers pulled from living rooms, children looking on in horror. Our guest in the studio was the co-founder of the New Sanctuary Movement, Juan Carlos Ruiz, who already this morning was dealing with disappearances, as the Blackwater USA-like immigration cops snatch l...

This week on the Earth Wants YOU! we are joined by Tim De Christopher from Climate Disbedience Center to talk about the recent self immolation by David Buckel and the despair that often comes hand in hand with Environmental Acitivism. We also have The News Of The Natural World and a wonderful interview with Barbara Lee from the Stop Shopping Choir

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We talk with June from NYC Shut It Down about the murder of Saheed Vassell, who was shot last week in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. We cover gentrification's role in Police violence. This week in the news; humans are swallowing more plastic than ever, humpback Whales sound like Charlie Parker and the Stop Shopping Choir are singing their songs louder than ever. email r...

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by 3 energetic youths who attended the recent "Justice for Stephon Clark" rally in New York where 1 of them was arrested. We talk about growing white nationalism, systemic racism, the growing movement and listen to them as they give their visions of alternatives to Capitalism.

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We have interviews and footage from the March For Our Lives in Washington, reflection on the murder of 22 year old Stephon Clark, an energetic interview with the inspiring Imani Henry from BANgentrification and Equality for Flatbush. Its Savitri D's birthday and we have some sombre sounds from the endangered spider Monkey.

This week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by Al Jazeera journalist Kirsten Saloomey and activist, artist Dragonfly (aka Miss Justice Jester aka Robin Laverne Wilson aka soprano in the Stop Shopping Choir). We discuss the two actions the choir were involve with this weekend, one on liberty Island and the other on bikes outside a detention center in the West Village. Kirsten Saloomey talks fak...

Today’s radio ruminating is upon the subject of PIPELINES AND PASSPORTS. We need to make this mental leap: The fossil fuel extraction is the same thing as the extraction of people, I. e. Americans who are called illegal and are terrorized, seized from their homes, by the immigrant cops. Pipelines and passports. The Earth’s blood is drained from it and burned to fix toxins in our atmosphere, soil a...

This week on The Earth Wants YOU! The West Virginia Teacher's strike! 1.5 million penguins are found in the Antartic, Katrina Spade comes in to talk about body composting and environmentally friendly ways of getting rid of corpses. Savitri and Billy discuss dreams and Billy reads a tweet.

This week on The Earth Wants You! We are joined by the renowned Diana Taylor to discuss Activism, Protest and the growing youth movements in the US. Reverend Billy's negative mentor Billy Graham passes away, we take questions from the listeners and collectively mourn as Savitri introduces the terrifying growl of this week's extinct animal, the Amur Leopard.

This special Episode of The Earth Wants YOU! follows the growing immigration rights movement in NYC, specifically the story of Ravi Ragbir, a New York based immigrants rights activist who is facing deportation.

This week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by Louis from Gays Against Guns,"an inclusive direct action group...committed to nonviolently breaking the gun industry's chain of death". The Peruvian Plantcutter (which sounds oddly like the Reverend's Aunt Emma) is this week's extinct animal. http://www.gaysagainstguns.net/

This week on the Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy and Savitri D are joined by legendary Washington DC based cannabis rights activist Adam Eidinger, who's been arrested more times than a cat has lives. They talk the importance of home cultivation, legalization without commercialization and the systemic racism of cannabis laws. Legalize it Don't Commercialize it

This week on The Earth Wants YOU! John Sims, the "almost unbearably brilliant" artist from Detroit speaks to us about Love and Power in the Age of Trumpism. Martin Luther King and Walt Whitman help us find the Square Root of Love just in time for Valentines Day. Grizzly Bears are on Extinctions Got Talent and Savitri D discusses the incredible action at Columbus Circle this week.