Earth Riot Radio
Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue -- the planet’s Sixth Extinction. Made by "Earth-loving urban activists" from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring “News From the Natural World,” a weekly gathering of climate change’s latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
Episodes
September 9, 2025 • 29 mins
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 changes everything everywhere.
The censoring of information in the consumerized West ("bad weather," "natural disasters") can not stop the screaming wind, the singing animals, the crackling wildfire...The Earth is singing a song that we ar...
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September 1, 2025 • 29 mins
No, it's a worldwide uprising. But I'm speaking to my home country just now - addressing the persistent mental disease of Consumerism. This passivity! It's over.
We have a history of rising up. It's time to be radical freedom-fighters again. We've done it before. Our gas and oil gov't kills how many thousands of us each month with heat, storm, wildfire and drought? WE ALL KNOW IT. Earthalution. What are the weapons of an Earthal...
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August 26, 2025 • 29 mins
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 messages from Mother Earth."
Positive view: The accelerating death and life of the Sixth Mass Evolution is parallel to a Revolution against Consumerist Capitalism. Is the Earth directing everything?
Put the Evolution Back in Revolutio...
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August 19, 2025 • 29 mins
The eight of us now in Toronto, our sixth city. The shows are going wonderfully. The essence of our message to the 80,000 people we've shouted and preached at so far: the 26 month global heatwave is a "message from Mother Earth", as Leonard Peltier told us. The Earth is our lead activist.
Question: Can we be strange enough to change enough to escape this culture of totalitarian consumerism? Hey all of you: Let's ask the Earth wha...
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August 12, 2025 • 29 mins
In our interview, Leonard says, "Storms are communication from Mother Earth." He talks with energy and insight, and love, after half a century in political prison.
I'm typing here on the bus with seven of us, the Stop Shopping Choir with the Detroit show tomorrow, the next show in the "love earth tour" with Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts.
Neil sings, "Love Earth, and your Love comes back to you. It's such an easy thing to...
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August 9, 2025 • 55 mins
Savitri D and Reverend Billy in a broad ranging conversation with Indigenous activist and artist Leonard Peltier. You can learn more about Leonard Peltier and see his art HERE This episode of Earth Riot Radio premiered Aug 9 on WBAI 99.5 FM Radio For The People in New York City.
Thanks to Charris Ford and Peter Marks.
Special editing by Debbie Daughtry
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August 5, 2025 • 29 mins
We have the sensation that a general gravity is pulling us toward a highway. Ashtrays and lamps and pillows are sliding in the direction of the Hollywood Bowl.
Soon we are being pulled down a special kind of highway that has truckstops and rest areas. When we stop, we turn, and to our astonishment, there are huge crowds that look at us as they wait for Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts to emerge from the men's bathroom. While the...
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July 29, 2025 • 29 mins
The consumer class in many parts of the world - certainly in the USA - has been normalized so thoroughly into a life that is actually suicidal, that to survive at all will mean inventing an alternative science fiction-like life, a completely strange full-scale world.
The reality of our physical environment is now seen mostly as a relentless stream of disasters. In fact, it is our own violence that we don’t recognize. Or, we...
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July 22, 2025 • 29 mins
There was a bare hand that reached out of the electric swamp of my city, and I clasped the fingers and we grasped each other and gasped and moaned and we've been together ever since.
And now the city is changing because it turns out many of us have found the hand that reaches for love, and the masked police and the saturation advertising and all the rest can't possibly interrupt our creation of people, culture, and earth-lovin...
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July 16, 2025 • 29 mins
Forty-nine years a political prisoner, now back in his home at Turtle Mountain.
In this time of lies in a confusing echo-chamber, we have the clarity of this one man. He helps us think straight. Leonard Peltier gives us all our strongest freedom, with his walking free.
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July 8, 2025 • 29 mins
The radio show is a freewheeling escapade this week. We're evolving lately toward a simpler message, like when AOC screams, "In the street! In the street!"
Our editor Jason Candler is building these wild symphonies out of voices that cut through from the Earth. The wild animals make good radio and teach me how to preach. They give us their far-seeing perspective, the ultimate anti-colonial view of the world. Listen to the seals,...
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July 1, 2025 • 29 mins
We look into a friend’s eye. What is really there? Look deeply, checking for virtualities, pixels, AI. Then ask the friend to save your life.
90 corporate jets, belonging to friends of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, are landing in Venice for the wedding. They might lose their way and fly to Gaza, where children wait on the runways, surround the planes, and tear the billionaires from their jets… eating them alive. With each bite, ...
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June 24, 2025 • 29 mins
We will all have the same feeling at the same time. It’s a GOOD feeling. And you will hear people say, “I've felt this way before, but I can’t place it.”
We will be affectionate with objects that are nearby, like a house or a tree. Ordinary things will be fascinating. We will feel a mild responsibility for everything. We will be aware of large presences beyond the horizon, like oceans and mountains. We will stop on the street an...
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June 17, 2025 • 29 mins
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 of last Saturday roused our belief that there are alternatives everywhere: political, legal, economic…. And we can put that euphoria to good use. But THE EARTH IS COMING! The playing field of everyday life is whirling into a deadly ...
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June 10, 2025 • 29 mins
You'd have to be, as Monty Python said, "DOWNRIGHT DAFT!" to feel welcomed by last January, the hottest January in 140 centuries. And 2025, so far, has offered floods and fires everywhere.
Welcome to a 2-year-old global heatwave that could only be ignored by a dictator bully traumatized by a nightmare father and a variety-pack of humiliations in early life. And yet, the most healed and brave among us will find a way to walk into t...
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June 3, 2025 • 29 mins
The Stop Shopping Choir is in full-throated radical voice. Savitri D, our leader, can be anywhere in the hall, up on the balcony, pulling pianists out of the kitchen, marching the singers up the aisle toward the nine songs of liberation from fascism. We are crafting songs and screams to fit the architecture of our new home, which is historically better acquainted with silence: the Quaker Meeting House of Manhattan, a beautiful spac...
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May 27, 2025 • 29 mins
Like the Hugh Masekela song “Bring Him Back Home,” which helped free Nelson Mandela from 27 years in prison, the Earth needs to be loved and returned to the forefront of our personal lives, our civic decisions, and our hope for Peace.
Give the Earth so much Love that the imagination of our home becomes where we live again. With the Earth as our leader, we can hallucinate back to what’s real. Imagine our way out of violent produc...
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May 20, 2025 • 29 mins
One day, exhausted by sanitized Democrats, we push on that door that Trump points to with his performance of terror.
The door swings open, and there before us is a valley full of puzzles, thighs, wa wa pedals, endangered swamp birds, discarded religions, executives in cages… This is chaos. Anything can happen. We move there and live in bliss. WOKELAND! Oh, we know how much power is here. We could stop bombs in mid-air and turn air...
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May 13, 2025 • 29 mins
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 delete the fire and flood; you can't delete whole cities bursting into flames. You walk around in your suit and haircut in the biggest bank in America. You know that you are, year in and year out, the top investor in poison gases and li...
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May 6, 2025 • 29 mins
We can only defeat CLIMATE CHANGE ON PURPOSE and RACIST-WARS-EVERYWHERE-ALL-THE-TIME - if we are a lot weirder than our current crop of criminal clowns.
There's a good reason that Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, and Ursula Le Guin are so popular. Science fiction can glimpse a kind of moral life so strong it can overthrow the ethno-state. The nonfiction of Mussolini & Hitler & Stalin is sobering. But then you add the Sixth Extincti...
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