Earth Riot Radio

We Are Woke Monsters from Deep in the Earth. We have learned that a hidden violent strategy to reduce the natural world to one large profit center is underway…The Trump policy on climate change is to ...

Today, Take a Moment  We honor Dr. King and the loving activists who gave their lives. We hold their lives in memory, as masked men hunt down our neighbors and shoot anyone who argues.  Foreign and ...

Only The Earth Can Stop The United States The devilish "greatness" of our government, guided by profiteering and the very rich’s expanding circles of murderers… …will be culled by a giant gardener p...

That's the headline that flashes through the paper and pixels. Someone finally defeats Trump and it is the Earth, who is the guardian of life itself, the captain of evolution, the giver of love. Tod...

We are singing a resistance song given to us by the screaming superstorm wind. The survivors among us are walking toward evolution in a new physical world. The 28 months of the global heat wave chang...

The parallel disasters of Global Heatwave and Human War have a positive side, although it feels farther away - you have to imagine it, like stepping into Leonard's reality: "The superstorms are messag...

We wake up every morning in this caving-in world, and we ask, “What Can I Do To Help?” And we look for defensive measures against the take-over by white nationalist gangsters. The NO KINGS marches...

When we go into the environment where the toxic investments are prepared, and we begin to sing, and invite the bankers to find a way out of the carbon money trap, we feel their sadness. You can't d...

Trump’s 2nd Inaugural address, quoted liberally in this episode, is a master class in sustained paranoid surrealism. But while he can run, he can’t hide — from the Earth. With the global heatwave in ...

On the Occasion of Savitri D's Birthday. We get lots of thanks for her direction of the StopShopping Church performances, and - The News from the Natural World, the heart of Earth Riot. She's our lea...

Something is broken in the relationship between Hurricane Helene and us humans. It's a communication thing. Something is silenced between the Los Angeles fires and you and me. How could we not get the...

"Revolution makes the Revolutionary." That is a quote in this week's show. The Sixth Evolution will lift nationhood from us. Read me my rights. The tidal wave of Evolution throws us against the Empire...

Is any resistance to our carbon-based life style gonna happen? For years now screaming doomsayers have predicted these drowning and burning cities, the starvation and drought and disease. Is the Sixth...

Every Human and More than Human has a song to sing and we have a variety of singers this week, from Nigeria to LA to NYC to Ecuador to South Africa to a swelling wave of Snow Geese... There is an unmi...

The Earth's every measurement, every single set of numbers we can give to the sky-rocketing heat, the sea-rise and wind-speed of storms and Iowa tornadoes and drowned polynesian islands... all the mas...

The danger continues. The big boys are up there messing with mother nature while I'm brushing my teeth in the suburb with no name. And entire towns are disappearing in the downpours and fires... But o...

It is clearly a moment for a new approach to defending the Earth. All manner of protests can be absorbed by the police and their corporation sponsors. Control of the press, shadow-banning of social me...

Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of the planet’s Sixth Extinction. Made by "Earth-loving urban activists" from The Church of Stop Shoppi...

In our current time in history, with the chaos of civil societies, the emergence of strong man governments and toxic capitalism and the resulting accelerating climate violence, we notice in our work a...

We have made common journey to find each other in the intensity of this moment that we meet. We get whole-body relief, that they are here, pouring out their trust and we reply in kind.  And quickly af...

The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but the message is simple-- Love is the only way to surv...

This week's "Earth Riot Radio" features Hopi sunrise music, Earth Firster Dave Foreman, Earth News with Savitri D, Ojibwe music of Maureen Noodin, jazz from Fiery Eagles of Justice, and songs of the S...

….and News from the Natural World with Savitri D and The Sixth Extinction with the Stop Shopping Choir, coming to you directly from the Earthchxrch in New York.  We speak with Gail Bradbrook, co-foun...

People with a conscience for human life and the Earth are bursting with emotion, information, artistry, and legal counter-offensives against the fossil fuel industry. There will soon be a response to...

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 rooft...

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 ...

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...

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 earl...

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 impossib...

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...

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...

Anne and Paul Ehrlich wrote: “Evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious transformation of cultural values.”                                                              Passover and Easter are...

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. Som...

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 Centur...

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 ...

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 Nat...

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, ...

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 Consumer...

"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...

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...

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 -- Joh...

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 ...

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 Churc...

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....

Rev. Billy talks with John R. Platt, editor of The Revelator and award-winning environmental journalist. John's work has appeared in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magaz...

We continue to pretend that the Earth is not a conscious force; that it is not creating the events of our lives -- from a baby's first breath to the melting of the Himalayas...   This is the reason th...

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 th...

Down here in the land of everyday life, our sorrow is real. Our feelings today are for the Ukrainians, the bewildered children, the families on the highway to the border, and we are even mindful of th...

Gratitude is a powerful thing -- a physical, practical part of being a revolutionary for the Earth. The emergency of the Earth gives us more and more to be grateful for.  Thank you for the Extinction,...

And now we're home. The two rock-n-roll busses full of 25 singers were like ecstatic think-tanks all through our 7 city tour of the UK.  What were we talking about?  Why, life during Extinction, of co...