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It's tricky. When 10,000 products try to hardsell you every day, promising happiness, sex, wealth, health and beauty, but those products are secretly polluting the Earth creating impossible wind and waves, fire and floods... And the answer to this betrayal is to love the Earth and team up with the Earth against the product toxins, but then the Earth will kill you anyway.... We are trapped in a pincer movement of different kinds of mass murder. But hey... how's your day?
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The history of movements is felt deeply in Neil's songs, in "Four Dead in Ohio" and the cracking whip in "Southern Man", the vulnerability of "Comes a Time" and "Searching for a Heart of Gold" and the relentless rock of Crazy Horse when it breaks into "Hey Hey My My (out of the Blue and into the Black). In this Riot we select as an echo to our nightly rock concert - Alice Coltrane, Charlse Lloyd, the Nightjar and the European Robin. The Earth is storming along our tour route, in Texas and New Orleans and Alabama, and the Earth storms in the songs of the struggle for justice.
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The powerful thing about this experiment is that we are talking directly to people about the Earth’s crisis. It’s not graphics, mass mailings, or social media’s pixels. In the first three shows the choir and I played to 21,000 people. Our job is like an opening act, but also we are hosting the event of the LOVE EARTH tour. Neil and his partner Daryl Hannah came to us to help them convey the meaning of the tour.
Moving from our storefront “Earthchxrch” in the East Village, we gasped at the shift in scale, like a pleasurable version of the bends. When we wake up on the bus the morning after a show, the pleasure we feel is that we have blasted into the sweeping landscape of messages like “Let’s make a new kind of activism for the Earth!” ….and “Can we be strange enough to change enough?” …and “Love is the Earth’s radical gift. Let’s use it for Life!”
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Beatles, Panthers, Standing Rock, David Graeber, Act-Up, Earth First, XR. Today as we prepare to tour with Neil Young, we find ourselves wondering: Can a famous activist or group make change on the level that the Earth needs? Or is Consumer Society always pushing such people to depoliticize?
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“There must be more to life!” was the cry as the new movement toward Earth-friendly Love took root in a White Christian Nationalist enclave of rural Texas. Worshippers were stranded with their Bibles as the mass of Trumpers seemed to veer off during a Pentecostal hymn that spun out of control. Senior church officials lamented “You could feel a happy Devil take them away” as congregants began to tumble to the carpet, amid kisses and cries of abandonment.
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The Earth is the protester now. We don't know how to join her and - we must. The consume-life economy will oppose any effort to break out of the virtual world of American-style capitalism. We are all the natural disaster. We are inside the tsunamis and quakes and typhoons and heat-waves and fires and floods... We are inside the disappearance of life forms. We cannot oppose the Earth. The Extinction takes life and blesses birth– our wave to ride.
Do you have a hometown radio station you’d like to hear us on? Or perhaps have a connection to a podcaster or radio host? Or even a suggestion for the show? Email [email protected] to join our family of Earth Riot broadcasters. -
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 media, the constant presence of aggressive marketing - the sources of climate toxins have had many years to perfect their response to standard protesting. But the quasi-religion advocated by the Ehrlichs allows for a regard for the intelligence of nature put forward by James Lovelock and Lyn Marguliis in the Earth as Gaia. This means that activists are a part of a larger living being. Direct actions become rituals, and we are the fire and the flood.
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Always invite the Earth - the living being who creates living beings that become a part of it - to whatever event you are hosting. If you are negotiating with New York City about what to do with the 10,000 migrants arriving each month, and you don't have the Earth at the table, then you are pissing in Hell. First of all, they are coming here because we invited them, as we in turn were invited... Second, you will drift into professional gibberish very easily. For instance, you might call "Love" something like "mitigating food and shelter insecurity...." Please put the Earth into the words you use, especially around the children.
Do you have a hometown radio station you’d like to hear us on? Or perhaps have a connection to a podcaster or radio host? Or even a suggestion for the show? Email [email protected] to join our family of Earth Riot broadcasters. -
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 Shopping, this podcast inspires 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 forward-edge leaders in environmentalism and activism.
Do you have a hometown radio station you’d like to hear us on? Or perhaps have a connection to a podcaster or radio host? Or even a suggestion for the show? Email [email protected] to join our family of Earth Riot broadcasters. -
We find kindness in the strangest places. Kindness is confusing to the fearful; mistaken for crime by politicians. Kindness has power, after all, that cannot be controlled. Kindness is not a static quality; it is always in motion as people touch and fly apart. Mutual kindness can blossom into radical sharing. Strangers living in a sudden conscious agreement... Kindness is something each of us will invent with a newcomer. Trust rises in our heart.
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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 at the Earthchxrch that there is a searching return by many humans to the most basic, hopeful, qualities: Love, kindness, and gratitude.
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Artists show the way: Coltrane and Ginsberg and Levitt and Annie Sprinkle and Bimbo Rivas and Basquiat and Keith Haring... they made new personal worlds in order to give themselves a way to inhabit on this Earth, and change people around them with their Earth-life.... It's time for Ecstatic Environmentalism! Threatening, erotic, unembarrassable, dangerous, a radical evolution. It’s the Earth that is our establishment royalty now. I wanna be a Woke Monster for the Earth!
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And the first wave of this mass extinction has hit New York. Thousands upon thousands of humans in busses and planes and trains and cars, with bundles and backpacks and not-warm-enough-clothes. What they call the extinction is actually sped up evolution, and our dull city needs it so badly. They walked through Earthchxrch's door for the central heating & job board. Bold, curious, loving, strong. The Fulani people from West Africa, mostly. Thank you for joining us here in the city, we were waiting for you. We're up on the wave of ultimate evolution now. The end of the world and the beginning of the Earth.
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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 after that, a pact of mutual loyalty. What can I do for you? Share laughter. Best wishes. Willingness to work. Music. In the Earthchxrch we are feeling a community grow. Why is this a threat and not a coming-true promise?
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The scripted fictions - little staged videos - depicting young migrants fighting police
and shoplifting in Times Square, and then the spewing of hate from police/governor/mayor
right on cue... All this drives us underground. We'll be non-official radical volunteers as
New York City forsakes Lady Liberty and does its best imitation of Alabama. We'll find non-professional
partners to ride the Earth Riot Wave as extinction and climate chaos accelerates, as civil wars and gangs
run amuck - and decent folks have to walk thousands of miles, float in leaky boats, confront gunmen at borders.
The politicians and police are corrupted souls we won't trust with the lives of our loved ones and neighbors,
or the lives of our new neighbors, the gracious, bold, curious guests who are arriving in our town. They come
with the gift of their lives. They remind us that love is the answer, not demonizing innocents. -
The fearful hate retreats in the face of the vision of freedom for all, especially for the people of the global south who have suffered at the hands of White Nationalist Neo-Liberal Capitalism.
At the Earthchxrch we welcome the Newest New Yorkers, about a hundred mostly West African young men each day. They join us at 36 Loisaida Ave (Ave C) in the East Village - each weekday from 8 am to 4 pm. On Sundays, some of them join us for our 5 pm 'Earth service,' featuring the heavenly music of the Stop Shopping Choir. We offer a heating system, but the roof leaks a little... There is a partnership (we contribute money) with a local soup kitchen EVlove. English lessons are taught, sometimes by the migrants themselves, as speaking in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Arabic, and various indigenous dialects fill the air of our single room. A strong gift is the newcomers' vision of freedom and independence, urged on by the 22-story woman in the harbor with her torch. We are reminded of our dream, coming to this place. -
A hard-right Christian punched my lights out while I was preaching about Peace. But evil is dynamic. It moves. Evil flows in a river of happenstance and purpose and pain and laughter. Fearful fascists can be looked in the eye and appealed to. The Devil can change his mind.
Look, I have Evil in my life like everybody else. In this episode of Earth Riot, the 102nd weekly broadcast of this show, I tell the story of preaching against violence until I was cold-cocked by Christ. I came to the Holland, Michigan jail. My attacker knew the cops. But everyone is lost in a civil war these days, right? Violence is everywhere. Just remember, every frozen fundamentalist wants to start laughing. -
He recently said “The flood of immigrants coming here - will destroy New York City. And it’s coming to a neighborhood near you.” Oh, really? And are they druggies and rapists?
The migration, 200,000 souls in NYC in the last year and a half, is exactly what we need, and it is what we are. The meaning of the 22-story-high female jurist standing in our harbor, with a torch raised, is that we welcome the newest Americans, just as we were welcomed. The killers of our city, Adams’ friends in real estate and banking (and Trump-endorsing cops) may have met their match, because the shelter, food, and central heating denied the refugees by the city are being supplied by New Yorkers. We are remembering the pleasure of trust. -
Since the Earth's crisis gives us months or maybe years, gradualism is a faster kind of suicide. Every one of our prayers needs to be like an ambulance, flooring it right at the emergency. Scientists say that most of reality is a whirlwind of subatomic particles called Dark Energy. So, we are stranded on a desperate little human island, while Dark Energy rages bafflingly over and through everything. This is the Fabulous Unknown. We trust the deepest space with our wildest imagination and that's our church. Earthalujah!
Come visit us at the Earthchxrch, 36 Ave C Loisaida, at 3rd Street, in the East Village, New York. We hold forth at 5pm most Sundays. Reach us at Revbilly.com
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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 survive.
Working with his collaborator Lou Adler, Neil Young tells a hundred stories with this record, some achingly personal and many universal. Neil and Daryl Hannah remind us that with Love, we can risk our life to save others’ lives, which is the heart of any revolution for change. W.H. Auden wrote on the eve of World War II, another time in history when children and families were attacked from the sky — “We must love one another or die.”
LISTEN UP! THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING IS EVERY SUNDAY, 5 PM AT THE EARTHCHXRCH, 36 AVE C, LOISAIDA, THE EAST VILLAGE, NEW YORK CITY. THIS WEEK HONORING VINIE BURROWS, AND HONORING THE MIGRANT FAMILIES STANDING IN THE COLD IN NYC. - Visa fler