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
October 28, 2025 • 29 mins
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.
Today's Earth Riot is led by Theodore Roszak, who identified the "Vast Wasteland" of the media culture that poor Donald loves so much, and who gave us the gift of "Eco-Psychology" the healing from the miracle that we call the Earth. We ca...
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October 21, 2025 • 29 mins
Meet me down by the river and tell me a secret beyond anything that I know. That's what water does.
Jessica Reznicek loves the rivers and ravines of Iowa and tried to protect them.
She tried to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and was taken from her water and but not taken from her love of Iowa flowing water. Now she's out of prison but monitored, and -- back swimming again like she remembers from her childhood. Jessica, that "Mee...
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October 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Scientists are hysterical now because AI can kill us soon. They are trying to plant a “cyber-conscience” into the robots before they run amuck. But the investor class LOVES THIS HORSE.
JD Vance claims the AI robots are the leaders of the American future. He may be an AI-bot himself. But the Earth, far smarter than any computer, is evolving too. There is the tragic side that we humans have made. (We’re in the 29th month of the glo...
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October 7, 2025 • 29 mins
The necessary politics of our age is to turn down the virtual reality and reintroduce actual reality. A tree will do this. The Earth marches closer with every fire and flood.
No politician is as removed from reality as Donald Trump, no bank is farther from holding your savings than JPMorgan Chase, no religion more distant from bringing the comfort of unconditional grace than the fundamentalist empires with their God. And in our ...
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September 30, 2025 • 29 mins
Peace on this Earth is the mother of all issues. But when we see the devastation in Gaza, the human families are in the foreground, and the rubble farther back. All the beyond-human life on the Earth, from insects to clouds to other people, becomes the background.When I'm shouting into a megaphone on the street, I gravitate to the violence against civilian families as a habit, it's the most powerful argument for Peace. Yet the live...
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September 23, 2025 • 29 mins
The United Nations is crashing, they say. But they should add that all institutions everywhere are crashing, because they aren't people. Institutions don't know how to be kind.
After returning from our tour with Neil Young, after amphitheaters and arenas and the Hollywood Bowl, Savitri and I find ourselves suddenly back home with thousands of environmentalists in the streets. The Paris Agreement and the EPA are gone. Funding is ...
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September 16, 2025 • 29 mins
What If We Could Tell The Truth? What if artists, scientists, earth-activists - were talking to us without corporate interference, representing to us in clear language the Earth’s overwhelming struggle.
“Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir” experienced this possibility from concert stages in 16 cities over 5 weeks, as Neil's opening act. As we sang and preached “Earthalujah!” - we could believe that it is possible to share...
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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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