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.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 5 hours 25 minutes
On the Road with Neil Young
Two shows in San Diego and one in Phoenix so far. Writing from the Love Earth tour bus in Texas, on the edge of New Mexico. Wednesday night we are back on stage in Austin, Texas, near the Austin peace encampment surges. The Stop Shopping Choir gets out of the buses every 400 miles. As I write this, the singers and the director Savitri D have gone to the border bridge with Juarez, in El Paso, to sing and meditate on our neighbors' long walks of hope.
Malcolm, Sinéad, Bernie,
Colin Kaepernick, Muhammad Ali, Neil, Daryl, Yoko, Malcolm, Nina, Martin, Cesar, Greta, Laurie Anderson, AOC, Jane Fonda
Government by Eco-Orgasm
Outright pleasure takes its place in the sun as the consumers finally admit they are bored and exhausted.
99 Failed Human Protests. Then the Earth Makes Her Move.
Extinction Rebellion and its spin-offs are a crucial step toward the future. Greta Thunberg was a star and for years her "blah blah blah" speeches will echo like Joan d'Arc waving a sword for the Earth. But if we are honest - we know we are losing.
Start the Ecstatic Enviromania
"Evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious movement of cultural transformation." ---Anne and Paul Ehrlich
When Your Try to Fire the EARTH
The industrial revolution and the enlightenment and the religions and Silicon Valley all tried to do it, and now they deny that they are bursting into flames at their desks.
Goddamnit Be Kind! the Sequel...
The Dalai Lama sells "Kindness" t-shirts. The Hopi elder says he's only a Pumpkin Clan Girl. The Doves and the Owls sing together and Mercedes Sosa blesses the survivors of the Colonels.
God Damn It, You've got to be Kind!
Kurt Vonnegut's lecture to newborn babies, as he explained to them what they should expect from the life before them, ended with his exhorting them to be kind during their lives.
I Wanna Be a Woke Monster for the Earth!
As the Gulf Stream current changes direction and the jet streams roll over - the breathtaking scale of this Sixth Extinction must be discovered by all of us.