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
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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April 30, 2025 • 29 mins
Just a spoonful of shopping makes the bombs go down the bombs go down the bombs go down.
War is an active loss of our memory of the Earth. The pilots and crew of bombers are sighting the ordinance into the side of the Earth and losing their Earth Love. But you and I paying for it? What are we losing? Consumerism's wars have saturation advertising on one end of families on fire on the other. The bombing of the Earth breaks our ow...
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April 22, 2025 • 29 mins
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 its 24th month, with the worldwide storms and floods and wildfires and starvation and wars….Trump is a comedian falling through space. There will be a moment when nature’s apocalypse overwhelms his entertainment, say — three tornadoes ...
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April 15, 2025 • 29 mins
Trump takes over the government. The Earth takes the planet. We join the Earth. Taking risks, stepping out, speaking up. Marching in the ultimate parade.
THE EARTH IS ALIVE. Everything we have in us—our resistance, our strength—is given to us by the Earth and is now called forth by the living Earth. She will raise us up to our best selves. The Earth is a living being, and we are living within her. We will join the larger life that...
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April 8, 2025 • 29 mins
Saturday, did we walk back the Greatness?
Saturday, did we march with simple love that the nation saw from a window?
Saturday, did 50-person villages walk alongside the beautiful strangers who have been walking for months?
Saturday, did our whisper reach the stranded youth facing another false American war?
Saturday, did we walk out of the virtual into the actual, out of consumerism into our radical self?
Saturday, did honesty...
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April 2, 2025 • 29 mins
We're not ready for revolution talk, with citizen peace activists being ICEd from their homes. We're in shock. We're staring at Trump. What can we do?
The violence against people and the Earth will be stopped. And we, the people, will end it. How? This week on Earth Riot Radio, we remember five heroes who faced the modern corruption of the USA, and they made their move with their bodies and spoken word, with their families and the...
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March 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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 leader as we look for a new home for our chxrch, and embark on new music. This past Sunday, at our rehearsal, the choir sang the entire time. What I mean to say is that it was as if we sang one single song the entire two and a half hours,...
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March 18, 2025 • 29 mins
The corporation isn't pulled from its home and flown to an unknown prison down South. The corporation has more rights than we do.
Only the individual who finds a way to be a corporation will have the protection of the Constitution. Only the individual who can masquerade as a crowd of people obediently looking up at their logo... only that individual who persuades the police that each of his hair follicles is a separate person, that...
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March 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Fear is hardening into a major force in the United States. But before Trump it was corporations that put fear in the display window.
Fear is the new hot product. And our new cryptocurrency is ATTENTION. We can’t look away from the latest hardship or arrest - that’s how we buy this product. Our attention is always hunted by Trump and his team on a daily basis. Pay up as you stare! They count on us buying that people in the distance...
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March 4, 2025 • 29 mins
When there's so much love in me that we cross the property line of a climate criminal called JPMorgan... we know that behind the desks, there is love to light up inside Chase.
It took 9 weeks. all the way into March, to figure out a new year's resolution for the Stop Shopping Chxrch. It's the promise that we keep singing: "Can we be Strange Enough to Change Enough?" And we could say "Love Enough," because Love is the agent of the k...
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