Earth Riot Radio: Recent Episodes
Reverend Billy and Savitri D
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.
So many young people come out of their very young years looking the polluter generations in the eye. They make basic things clear about survival and right and wrong.
Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is the most obvious of our climate criminals. We don't have that many gangsters at his level. He puts his trillions behind the fabulous profits made by putting carbon into the air. He killed the Paris Climate Agreement. And now, after this summer's science fiction scale disasters, we know our activism must somehow articulate what people like Dimon are doing. We haven't done that yet. We need to OUT the poisoners. How? Well, the Church of Stop Shopping goes into the big Chase banks in Manhattan, and we dance on their desks....Do you have a better idea?
On one side, human violence: War, Trump, starvation, toxins, etc. On the other side, the more creative violence of the Earth: like a hurricane in the Pacific.
Caught between between humanity and the Earth, we are trapped. And what are we doing? We're passive. As consumers, we believe we can be bystanders. In the EarthChxrch, we suggest that you side with the Earth. The Earth is teaching us how to be radicals again. In this episode of Earth Riot Radio, animals take over the TV studio. Coyotes make superior meteorologists.
The history-killing heat waves, wars, 100-degree ocean, glacial floods, and on and on in a new normal of horror, makes us want to change completely.
The necessary revolution is here in this extraordinary moment. Our only task is to live up to it. The Earth's 6th Extinction is not demanding a response within our quiver of desire, or our strategy, or even our reverence. It is happening, that's all. And a new Wisdom must come from us.
And this applies to the climate crisis, too. Only revolution can make peace. Real change always involves the sacrifice of life.
We are allowing the powerful to amass unprecedented fortunes from mass murder, and they are raking in the billions in plain sight. People seem locked in passivity. The CO2 increases in the atmosphere every month. If a few of us would risk life and limb to oppose the fossil executives, would people break out of their hypnosis and rise in great numbers?
Earthalujah!
But we are looking for a kind of conversation in public space that is as regular and full or neighborly affection as it is, in 2023 at least, a revolution in communication. The stories blow in the wind in one direction more than any other direction, and that is called “Culture". The absence of a sensible delivery system for spoken word stories is the key to why we are not communicating about the Earth’s crisis. No we aren’t. Not enough. Not clearly. Our climate reports comes as pixels, data, tragedy and celebrity compassion, but nothing as powerful as a friend who shakes us and demands that we change. And we shake and shout at all the friends and strangers who conspire with us to poison the air and grow the storms.
It is where Human and Earth Rights are the same. Walking into the property of Power and declaring your freedom.
To walk across the property line of an Earth criminal like JPMorgan Chase or British Petroleum or Monsanto/Bayer is to enjoy a jolt of honesty. It feels like fresh mountain air. To walk across the racist part of the Senate, or the sexist part of sports or religion or health... These are the distortion fields of Consumerism in our lives, the inequality that crushes us, but then is defeated finally by our ability the protest with our bodies and souls. In this Earth Riot, listen to Angela Davis, Nina Simone and Tony Morrison.
The passivity of human beings in the face of the fossil killing fields... that is the riddle of our age. If we go ahead with our current shrug of the shoulders, we are offering up our children to early death. Why?
Yes, we do have an alternative. That would be - ending our opposition to the vivid process of life that is demonstrated everywhere around us by legions of living things. The Earth is our government, our economy and culture, our religion, and our well-being. Something about the "hottest day of the Earth's history" of last week, plus a thousand disasters all over the place... a critical mass is reached that engages us and makes passivity a crime. Earthalujah!
Here at the hottest day in history is MAGA Republicans fear making violence directly, as surely as their friends the NRA encourage mass shootings. Are the fear-mongers impressed that their climate science denial became so real, so fast? For those of us who recognized the truth in the warnings by scientists going back 30 years, and who sensed in the deniers a dangerous kind of spiteful rejection of common sense - we are not surprised. We are charged with discovering the activism that is so necessary now. What are we capable of? We must move beyond fear. As activists we know that the heat-waves, downpours, viruses, sea-rise, hail stones, polar melts - are the reports of a conscious living being - the planet Earth.
All the words we should have used to explain to one another the deadly importance of the climate crisis are Consumerized.
We’ve got to be surreal. We’ve got to be exorcised. We’ve got to be impossible sometimes, to understand. Got to fly from the edge of the cliff. We are weightless now. We are falling through natural disasters and we don’t know how to talk to the Earth. All we can say is “This is unprecedented.”
Things happen in the US that our words don't reach. We shout, scream, shoot bullets but none of what we do is a realistic response to the Earth's crisis.
We need logic more like the surrealism of evolution. We need common sense more like the paranormal intuition of a psychic who has a crying jag. We have murdered so many people that we have created a new creation-wide level of lamentation, a moan of pain above the dog frequencies beyond ultraviolet light but right here. Our activism comes straight from the mysteries.
Consumerized Capitalism is designed to multiply our product choices while taking away from us the one choice that matters.
We live in the natural world. It turns out that is a science fiction concept. That is why in our Earthchxrch today we feature Ursula K. Le Guin. e feature Jordan Neely, who moon-walked in the tunnels under New York City until his anxieties excited a certain ex-marine to violence. And we honor on our show the singing of three birds who break down the walls of nationalism, religion and militarism - and they are the Siberian Crane, the Arctic Tern, and the Bar-Tailed Godwit. These three birds fly around and around the Earth, free to make the one choice that matters.
What kind of people would we be, if we were so powerful that we successfully defended the Earth?
It happens once in a while, some of us are possessed. Call it "Justice Possessed". Black Lives Matter, ACT UP, Standing Rock, Occupy Wall Street, The Rapist in Your Path, #metoo... Many of us have never been that possessed. Many of us think of a revolutionary as someone in the distant past. No, now it's you and me. The Earth tells with every wildfire that it is you and me and the time is now.
Featuring Reverend Billy Talen, Savitri D, Gail Bradbrook, and the marvelous work of Jason Candler.
The evil of Hitler and Hirohito was clear. In 2022 the investor class is openly reaping profits from toxic gasses and it is killing everyone. Every day the celebrity billionaires are in the news, unchallenged. The Earth is the radical today. The Earth is doing things that no-one thought possible. The Himalayan mountains are melting? There were people who didn't want to believe that Hitler was possible, or that the Japanese would ever matter to us - out beyond the Pacific. We have already had many Pearl Harbors and the investor classes hold on the media and public figures is so strong that we consumers remain immobilized in our deadly sleep, watching the screen.
The rapacious shopping economy has been our devil for 20 years in the Church of Stop Shopping. But that doesn't matter.
Because this week the zombie tsunami crashes on us all. The News from the Natural World in this Earth Riot episode is breath-taking in the finality of it violence. And meanwhile we shout Earthalujah!!! ...because we are grateful that life evolves, and our dead bodies are released into the sky as flowers and Chestnut-sided Warblers.... Earthalujah!
The investor class is not just callous and probably criminal. They seem to have no idea what Justice means.
The nations and tribal people of the global south, struggling with drought, floods, fires, mudslides, sea-rise, aka Climate Chaos... are in Egypt calling out to the toxic profiteers in the north and getting endless negotiations and debt-trap loans. They are an echo from centuries of colonization and slavery. The rich countries cannot understand why Justice is necessary. They remind me of Tsar Nicholas. Power has made them so uncurious that they won't see the revolution coming.
A Forest Lets Out the Liberators in Jails
Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila...
My attempt to translate the Earth's language is guided by these special teachers. First, I try to leap over Trump's wall, where I have been trapped by my name - William. And later in the riot I look for a new kind of media for the message of the Earth. I discovered this media in the people in Times Square listening to us sing and preach. The people can carry the echo of our message because this crowd is as full of colliding life as a forest clearing.
Earthalujah!
The riddle of our time is, "How can we be passive in the face of the Earth's crisis?" The answer is, we are in a trance state induced by extreme Consumerism.
We are coming to understand that Consumerism, the enforcement arm of Capitalism, is deadly in large doses. In New York, a recent study reported, we can experience 10,000 advertisements daily. In the life-and-death emergency in which we find ourselves, we will go directly to the people who are suffering this enchantment, and interrupt them. Shock them. Force them to focus. Bring them the questions that might lead to action.
How do we start actions over? Start by living in the present tense, that vivid moving thing. In consumer society, which imitates the old religions and fascism -We are distracted away from what we are doing now.
Our present tense life is an infinite source and is where the forest we are walking in comes through to us. It is where the alliance with the Earth comes from. It is impossible to imagine partnership with the hyper evolution called the extinction.
Somebody give me an Earthalujah!
And don't forget to glue yourself to the museum wall. And dance with Pussy Riot on the altar. Before the revolution, nobody knows what to do, so Evolve with nature and be extreme. Earthalujah!
Come to revbilly.com for directions. Oct 23 Earthchurch in New York. Oct 30 Earthchurch in London. Live and LiveStream! Amen!
This episode has since been re-uploaded after a publishing error.
Jason and I send the radio segments back and forth and back and forth again. We build the show that way. So this week, I completed the two minute “Goodbye and Thank You!” segment, before we had discovered the tape of Angela Davis speaking at the Washington D.C. Women's March, which is now the says-it-all climax of the show. So thank you so much Angela Davis. I'm expressing my gratitude here, with a heart that feels like the thousands grateful on that cloudy day in D.C.
Can we be so extreme that we are realistic? When will our activism rise to the occasion? How could the stakes be more life and death? Is there a human expression that gives the meaning of the melting of the Himalayas, the ocean currents changing direction, the wave of silence called the Sixth Extinction? Is the moral equivalent of war still missing, tragically missing? Oh, to be human in this time.
We are calling out Jamie Dimon's $5.5 Billion loan to the TransCanada pipeline threatening sovereign Wet’suwet’en territories in British Columbia. We entered the Sacred State of Exalted Embarrassment, and for a few moments our deeply held values aligned with our actions. The Earth is guiding our new politics as we connect with the incredible fight of Wet'suwet'en Protectors. Like the atmosphere, all is in flow, causing and receiving, crossing borders and stopping pipelines, like wolves, like humans. Be the storm!
Two I’s make We! We is a community. They is a crowd. We as a community can never be defeated, Stay STRONG!” The great artist and activist Vinie Burrows leads to a life of creativity and peace. Plus Aspens, Ants and Hurricane Fiona.
"Progress" in the sense of Republican profits is the kind of thing we needed to ban many years ago. At this point, as the Sixth Extinction drowns 1,500 Pakistanis and the investor class drinks a toast to murder, we must imagine a kind of progress that starts with love and forgiveness. And goes from there to riding the waves of calving glaciers and collapsing jet-streams. Our future, if we are being honest, is a brutal dream. Something like trees who come clutching axes in their branches.
We can't catch up the Earth no matter how hard we try. Numbers and tech and human efforts to defeat the catastrophes we invented are no match for the energy of the Earth. With Saint Barbara Erenreich and The Stop Shopping Choir and News from The Natural World.
The Big Lie is everywhere. It's the atmosphere, it's glyphosates, it's radiation, it's the ultimate poison. The Big Lie comes in many forms, from QAnon to the Atom Bomb. But it's so saturating, that if we walk along the sidewalk and encounter someone telling the truth, those words hit us like magic mushrooms.
To sell the simple truth is now, in 2022, to be a radical revolutionary. Join us. The Earth is a conscious living being and we still have a chance to join up. But you gotta tell the truth.
We environmentalists must move our point of view from the center of human power to a point in outer space, back somewhere in the early days of the big bang. Then maybe we can overpower these gods that make poisoning the Earth sensible.
We are marching toward men marching toward us. They have a god above them, who guarantees their eternal life. The god is Krishna, Jesus, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Donald Trump, Mickey Mouse, and the pink plastic ruler in the Cracker Jack box. They don't believe in climate change -- that's a sneak attack from a foreign god. Just before these god-people kill us, they see that our supreme being is the Earth, and so they, our fellow earthlings, our murderers, are a part of our mysterious guide. We explain to them that life and death are unexplained but very beautiful. The Fabulous Unknown!
As the big institutions try to spread their life sentences, they are stopped by love. It’s the same old story and that old story of erotic romance is making a comeback as the libraries are burned down by fear of sex and foreigners. The books are in our bodies and we dance away.
We sing our strong beliefs in the songs in today's Earth Church radio show... The title track of our new record "Change Without Us", is in this show at the 3 minute point. It's a disco song for radical earth activists in the time of 6th Extinction. The libraries burn but we got the songbook in our bodies. We have more control of our fate than Q’anon or Scientologists or Exxon would think- because we keep falling in love. We keep falling in every kind of love.
Most of us know how we will be required to be far more radical than we have been, and very soon. We have quietly agreed with ourselves that we will try to work with the complete collapse of this thing called civilization. Personal extreme change will match the conditions of the Earth's release of fire and flood, virus and death in this Sixth Extinction. Covid, Black Lives Matter and the Ukraine Invasion are object lessons for us. Our house, career, and city... Our plans for parenting and educating and accumulating comforts will be abandoned. Strange evolution will overtake us, sudden intimate agreements, a faster dance in the disappearance of time.
The people who set up the COP conferences invite billionaires and their enabling professionals to a poker game with a large herd of aggrieved advocates. The game is rigged, but it takes ten days. But that is the essential story of the conference, until now. With the physical environment so clearly deadly, the question "How will we survive" is bringing back the emotions of decency. Good people who want to live will tear apart a refinery with their bare hands over the weekend. As they do this, they are happy.
No matter how bad the floods and diseases and storms get, most of here in consumerized Americak keep basking in gradualism. It isn't really happening...not yet.
And when I say God I mean celebrities, the first crypto million, and the hope that we will all have one more moment of unexpected sex. What do we really worship? What were we worshipping when the Earth slipped us through the door to our own extinction?
The Webb telescope images didn't show us more Earths. We have been living in a gift. Join the Earth Church, your own version. Be grateful, even if our time is up. Gratitude we should have expressed long ago can be concentrated in a message to the forests that are still standing.
It's the Earth, the Earth, it's Earth... it's always Earth.
The planet is spinning toward extinction. We might survive if we learn how to spin with it. When a glacier the size of Manhattan melts and disappears, then we have to melt, too. There is no history that we know of to deal with what is happening. We can't even make the phrase "extinction" popular enough to help people steal it back from blockbuster films and video games. We have to try every dance, every language and music and every rupture of what we thought was true. A new activism for the Earth!
A barrier to mounting powerful actions for species and ecosystems is the loss of forgiveness. We face self-blame for the ineffectiveness of environmentalism. We give ourselves unrealistic schedules of work. We can be harder on ourselves than the polluters because we are more familiar with the facts of the crisis, which are devastating.
This is a time of name-calling and finger-pointing, and it's not just from extremists. It's everywhere. But we've learned in the Earth Church that right-thinking doesn't persuade like spiritual joining. Would we ever offer best wishes to Jamie Dimon or Jeff Bezos? In this radio show we listen to reconciliations in Rwanda. At the sentencing of Dylan Roof, we witness radical acts of compassion.
Something happened on the way to the 11th rally and march. After the Supremes ruling gutted the EPA, we went down to Foley Square, site of the NY State Supreme Court, to what? To make new climate change relationships...
All the groups were there, from Sunrise to Extinction Rebellion. Each carries its own history of brazen love struggling against the traditions of fear. The Supremes are betting that we will enter their cages of hate, like good little consumers. But it may be that the Trumpian lawyers-in-robes have made so many deadly rulings that a new hybrid of justice seeker is in the making. So many different kinds of activists have mixed in the streets to the point of dizzy exhaustion. Will we stagger out of all this with an Earth-loving super-majority?
The spinning wet white-and-blue rock that we call home is completely outside the systems of governance that order society. It is extreme and changing radically in all directions. Our only hope is to connect with the Earth with an invented and secret way of life, evolving into a personal wildness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our 'Stop Shopping' community has landed in a great urban gospel tradition of the storefront church. Every Sunday at 5:00 pm we gather in the empty branch bank on Ave C & East 3rd St in New York's East Village. The "nabe" is all the races, though the famous local culture is "Loisaida" -- the presence of Puerto Rican culture is strong. Our songs are about the Earth's crisis but belted out as gospel. We welcome people who come to the door, hearing the 30 voice Stop Shopping Choir. "We love the Earth!" "It's the Extinction but it's Evolution too and we're Alive now!" Some of the folks walk in and sit down and begin to clap their hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It isn't clear to us how to pass into the cloud of nothingness that already claims so many lives. How do we warn others, and is survival to be the only project of our lives?
We send signals into the unfathomable extinction like bats and their echolocation. And we listen.
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The suicide and murder epidemic by children? Children cannot grow up in the this monoculture. Children breakdown as their families and communities explode. Why is this happening? Because love’s destruction is identified as a profit center. We have made the violent movie that we can’t stop. The Earth, though, is not helpless. The Earth has new life, new love and new caring. But the storms and wildfires are a part of that new life because we live in the time of extinction. We will have to become strange to evolve. As we become radical by re-inventing who we are, we ask the Earth for a place, a mind, a love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I propose that we revisit the Earth Riot of March 6, with Ukraine freshly invaded, with the onset of the old-fashioned war, a sort-of-like-World-War-2 war. The trial of today's Bonnie and Clyde -- Johnny and Amber -- was beginning to form in the Covid-addled mind of America. In the past 90 days, "eras" have passed. The culture is spinning out of any kind of gravity. There's no plan. The future is a bomb. Let's get back to reality, children.
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A young girl sits in a window of the projects. She watches an oak as it goes under the chainsaw. The park has been sold to someone. The man starts cutting the branches that look like gestures.
The oak is older than her parents. It has always been there. A loud machine chews it to bits. Protesters down there are dressed up like deer, carrying signs and chanting. The girl watches the deer dancing, waving branches.
As the physical environment asserts its power, we hunger for the Earth as it really was and may someday be again. But as the children in the windows will learn, to remember the Earth is to remember the crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Putin's drilling became murder in broad daylight. Exxon & JPMorgan Chase do the same thing. Is Pakistan and India's heat wave cooling from 110 degrees? Is the fire season already started? Chase's Jamie Dimon is the prince of New York. He makes almost $100k each day. Gaseous toxins from his investments make climate murder every day. What's his body-count? He is the prince of ashes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mother’s Day and Jane Jacobs' birthday set up a report of our activism for Mother Earth. We push our secular hot-as-hell Earth Church up against the threatened forest along the river and then we are hand-cuffed somewhere in that sing-along because there were chainsaw people interrupted by our concert and so it’s off to jail... which happens to be on the same street as the Church, so it’s easy to repeat, just like a song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The youth among the Earth defenders, from tweeners to college debtors, are fierce like the folks in Earth First and Redwood Summer. They arrive with a reckoning, a moral sureness. In this "Earth Church of the Air" we meet an eco-Marxist named Kala, a holistic healer named Wally, and Ariella -- freshly returned from jail for singing in a tree surrounded by men with chainsaws.
Ariella is one of four tree-sitters in the Stop Shopping Choir, arrested in the endangered East River Park. Our Earth Church is a block away in an unrented bank branch. We gather each Sunday at 5 pm (address: 36 Ave C at East 3rd Street in the East Village). To oppose real estate power in New York City is full of pressure. One of our activists took his life yesterday. So our friend has gone with the 500 trees that went under the blade so far.
May each us find that fierce defender within us, recover it from passive Consumerism, and go to the trees.
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Our empire has wolves and goddesses at the gate. And super storms, a hundred wildfires in California and a virus that has not begun to fight. Let's make our way back, return to the wilderness that we conquered with our paradise of pavement and fumes... It's possible that we are still invited to this beautiful planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now, we know we must reach out to our old enemy, the Earth! We thought we could conquer the Earth...but that didn't work out so well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The birds are singing one more time, and the turtles find the sun on the log and the eagle surveys Brooklyn from underneath the landing jets. It's all strange but it isn't too strange until it's actually killing us and OH -- RIGHT -- IT ACTUALLY IS KILLING US. We keep forgetting the Extinction is serious. The Earth is who we pray to for guidance in this time of TOTAL CHANGE. Damn!
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Most of us know how we will be required to be far more radical than we have been, and very soon. We have quietly agreed with ourselves that we will try to work with the complete collapse of this thing called civilization. Personal extreme change will match the conditions of the Earth's release of fire and flood, virus and death in this Sixth Extinction. Covid, Black Lives Matter and the Ukraine Invasion are object lessons for us. Our house, career, and city... Our plans for parenting and educating and accumulating comforts will be abandoned. Strange evolution will overtake us, sudden intimate agreements, a faster dance in the disappearance of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The green spaces are supposed to be an escape to the natural world -- away from the physical environment of lies that pervades our life. But the emissaries from Consumer World, unconsciously high from the 10,000 adverts that hit them daily, must control the non-human life forms that they claim are a danger. They use the forests as an erotic destination that they saturate with their “very limited” spraying. The Reverend trespasses in the private offices of power, shouting that “You cannot enter the Great Extinction unless you re-enter your own eccentric self.” Earthalujah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rev. Billy talks with John R. Platt, editor of The Revelator and award-winning environmental journalist. John's work has appeared in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magazines and publications. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run continuously since 2004 and has covered news and science related to more than 1,000 endangered species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Follow this message and find out where it goes. The words are: “You are being poisoned. Mass death is accelerating from putting carbon in the atmosphere. You can no longer live your life as planned.” We follow this message as it enters the conscious life of billions of people. It goes into the eyes and ears and brain several times a day. Whether the message is read or heard or seen on the screen, the warning is understood. But then a curious thing happens. The words cohere in the mind, but are deleted before any action takes place. Where did the message go? Something happens between the information and the action, between the recognition of danger and the fight or flight. Repeatedly, we are paralyzed. Why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rev. Billy talks with international peace activists Medea Benjamin & Tighe Barry, capable of four protests in a single day! Peacealujah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We continue to pretend that the Earth is not a conscious force; that it is not creating the events of our lives -- from a baby's first breath to the melting of the Himalayas... This is the reason that we are oblivious to the danger we are in. We can't image that the Earth is alive. We experience the natural world through the prism of our toxic dust and YouTube clips of lions devouring leopards. The average city dweller with a computer experiences 10,000 ads per day. Yes, there is the occasional super storm that pokes through our bubble, but the storms and floods aren’t thought of as coming "from an Earth". They are "natural disasters" -- mysterious uprisings of the elements, with no source at all. We wander on, as the ads circle us... and the Extinction accelerates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billy talks with Grammy nominated singer-songwriter (Wild Colonials, Telepopmusik) and sustainable fashion designer Angela McCluskey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The planet is spinning toward extinction. We might survive if we learn how to spin with it. When a glacier the size of Manhattan melts and disappears, then we have to melt, too. There is no history that we know of to deal with what is happening. We can't even make the phrase "extinction" popular enough to help people steal it back from blockbuster films and video games. We have to try every dance, every language and music and every rupture of what we thought was true. A new activism for the Earth!
Special Guest: Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Angela McCluskey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Down here in the land of everyday life, our sorrow is real. Our feelings today are for the Ukrainians, the bewildered children, the families on the highway to the border, and we are even mindful of the young Russian soldiers. At Earth Riot Radio, we believe that the Earth is a living being with its with own feelings. Here on invasion day, we feel sorrow for all of life, and we wonder -- does the Earth have sorrow too? Nothing is more violent than war, for the Earth and for us all. The horror of war reawakens, a zombie history that cannot die. The Earth carries the confusions of human history in its body, the glorious peace and the murders that keep repeating, again and again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The people who set up the COP conferences invite billionaires and their enabling professionals to a poker game with a large herd of aggrieved advocates. The game is rigged, but it takes ten days. But that is the essential story of the conference, until now. With the physical environment so clearly deadly, the question "How will we survive" is bringing back the emotions of decency. Good people who want to live will tear apart a refinery with their bare hands over the weekend. As they do this, they are happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reverend Billy talks with celebrated environmental journalist and educator Andrew Revkin. As Founding Director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute., Revkin is also a lifelong musician and songwriter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Every once in a while, activism for the Earth seems to go on pause. And the Earth in its apocalypse project also slows down its breathing and looks at the valley. There is a moment with no fires and floods… We are in that time now and we feel stranded with our activism. We don’t know how to style our confrontation with the fossil-scape. There are not many slow and long preparations now. The turns in the battle for life are sudden. The Earth is our guide, giving us our muscle and our music. We will know what to do as we slide into the poisoned air, into the biosphere, into the raging flood. The experience of the Earth will be our gift to and gift from this place. Guest: Andrew Revkin, Founding Director of the Initiative on Communication & Sustainability, Columbia University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is the battle for OUR soul. We’re being pulled into the virtual world by billionaire brats who shout at us from their rockets on the edge of space. This is the Evolution Revolution! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The physical environment is -- to our jaw-dropping surprise -- a single conscious being, which is, eerily, calling us by name. But we are refusing to believe that there is a message in the fire and flood, the virus and drought. So far, we prefer the Big Lie -- like Trumpers, Consumers, or any super-stupid Chosen People. How do we change? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gratitude is a powerful thing -- a physical, practical part of being a revolutionary for the Earth. The emergency of the Earth gives us more and more to be grateful for. Thank you for the Extinction, which teaches us what to do with the lives that we have left. When we face a hard right fundamentalist, let’s be grateful that the Earth shows us the complexity of a forest, and the endless interdependency of species -- the antidote for any Earth-hating god. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2022, we will fully participate in Evolution, in which the Earth withdraws our super-predator star status, and proceeds to annihilate our personal identity. Well, that could happen. It's obvious, anyway, that Evolution will come in 2022 like the grim reaper in a lemon yellow bikini. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The strongest revolution comes from love. Strategy, ideology, godliness, cleanliness… all those are way down the list. Gaia is giving us the virus because she loves us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Downtown Manhattan’s last big green space for low-income families will soon be luxury towers. New York’s Mayor has used climate change rhetoric to do his dirty work. And now the courts support the violence against the trees. How do we protect nature, our children, and ourselves? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Intolerance is in direct relationship to over-consumption and to the Earth's reaction to our attempt to consume all of life. The Earth's response is to save life, and so... We gotta boogie with the Sixth Extinction! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Take a walk in a beautiful forest. The dying and being born is so constant that the place is flickering. We are like that now. Death is a part of life. It's like the sound of skidding tires when you know you are in a car accident. There is something comforting in the inevitability of it. The thing that makes us angry is that a bunch of gas and oil yahoos are making millions of bucks a day and we can't stop them but the Earth is stopping us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeff is the top emitter of CO2, and he likes the Glasgow agreement, which gives him more time for his waste. Kyle updates hate for the TikTok generation. Glasgow and Kenosha. Kenosha and Glasgow. The agreement to murder the big planetary way... and the agreement to murder your neighbor down the street. They leave us with the question, where is our love? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And now we're home. The two rock-n-roll busses full of 25 singers were like ecstatic think-tanks all through our 7 city tour of the UK. What were we talking about? Why, life during Extinction, of course. And what form does our activism take when the Earth is pulling human society apart with this massive evolutionary change. When in the USA people are blind to what is happening to them? How do we work for the Earth now? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Earth is very clear. All the religions have their year's end holy days but the Earth is telling all of us that we cannot kill others with our carbon heavy buying. Christmas presents are stuck in container ships. Macy's is going bankrupt. The Earth is doing this with fire and flood and virus. The Earth says: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY A GIFT TO GIVE A GIFT. Earthalujah! The Church of Stop Shopping - the choir and Savi and Billy - we are headed to London, boarding two busses in London, performing in 7 cities on our way to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. The schedule for the Earth Riot Tour is there for your reading pleasure at Revbilly.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our failure to mount a strong resistance to the Citi and BP, Blackrock and Exxon, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase - needs to top the agenda. This cannot continue because we won’t be able to continue…. 26 times the international climate conference has met? What if we stopped Big Oil in the early 90’s when it started? The fossil liars-in-suits will be negotiating their blah blah blah inside a secured building that hundreds of thousands will parade around and around. The Church of Stop Shopping will be there with our song, “Extinction is real! Extinction is here! Better say I Love You before you disappear!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Leader of the Environmental Movement Has a Brain" is a show from a year ago that we are returning to today. Last week was our 70th show, and here is the number 35 show for this week's broadcast. We are busy preparing for our songs and sermons for our EARTH RIOT TOUR of the UK and COP26 in Glasgow (we're sending two shows from the road - the tour is Nov 1 to the 12th...). The nature of this tour to the "last chance climate conference" does make us want to review where we have been, how we got here...
Savitri D in the News from the Natural World, brings us from the dime-size Lilliputian Frog, to sea turtles endangered by plastics- all the way to Hump-backed Whales, from Charlene from the Stop Shopping Choir, talks in our interview about Donald Trump's macho disparagement of Hurricane Maria. In this episode there is the affirmation of the Earth's conscious being, and how the Earth directs our activism. Earthalujah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
COP26 - we'll sing on the streets of Glasgow as if our songs will blow through the walls of police, as if the music will have a seat at the table of the billionaires as they refuse to stop their CO2 and methane. The Earth Movement has a move it must make very soon. We haven't created that galvanizing story for the Earth. Where is the concentrated drama? The Earth sends its super storms but still waits for its humans to bring the drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
COP26 is the object of an unprecedented avalanche of press releases which promise “Carbon Zero by 20______”. All the corporations are promising a complete turn around from the present cycle of production profit and waste. What do activists do now? The “End” is endless. The stalling goes on till death do us part. We need a new kind of Earth Activism. One where the mystical touch of the Earth is leading the way.
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The shift in tactics is driven by the Earth - our most effective protester. Nobody says NO! to CO2 capitalism quite like a super storm. The “natural disasters” are political. They are messages, encouraging us to re-invent how we defend life on Earth and move into expressive politics beyond our old rallies and marches. The vividness of this current 6th Extinction makes us want to evolve into something new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the shadow of Hurricane Ida, we went out into the streets to talk to people. The common sense was more radical than we expected. Everyone is feeling trapped, so far from any ability to protect themselves from the super storms and fires. People seemed frustrated that they are in the middle of this city, so far from the natural world. They want to be closer to the Earth. We asked random strangers “What would you say if you got the mic in Glasgow at the climate conference?” The answers shared a plea that someone at COP26 represent them - and be personally braver in this dangerous time. Of course, Ida was an influence on this talk. Then again - we should always feel the nearness of the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The strange deadly beauty of the show called "Extinction is Here" came to jaded New Yorkers last night and hey - we're impressed. Very impressed. But that's not enough. The Earth is the impresario here and the show called Extinction is extreme evolution. First of all, we can't just move to the country. Our memory of who we are needs to be free to travel farther than that. Who am I? Ida has erased my identity built out of cities and wars and pop tunes. She says that I come from the whirling heavens of a tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We think the Earth wants us to sing and trespass for 20 years, (trespass on the property of fossil banks, for instance.) And you have your translation of the Earth’s message, don’t you. We know we can’t shop our way out of the Shopocalypse. The Indigenous people of northern Minnesota are the wildfire, the Protectors and our teachers. Earthalujah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have never believed that the Earth tells stories, but we have no choice now; we must step into the plot of the 6th Great Extinction. We need to like the outlandish story-line and join up. And that is what we mean when we say “Wild Dreams of a New Beginning.”. It’s a phrase that was given to us by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed away last March at the age of about a century. He was the sustainer of the Beat generation at his City Lights Books in San Francisco. As this Extinction overwhelms our lives, may we have that vision of the Earth that so many of his authors saw and celebrated. Earthalujah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There must be a word for it. Copying your enemy’s language and hurling it back at them twice as loud. In today’s show we are taking three current examples of this phenomenon, Big Chem, NYPD and the rich guys ruining the climate with their fossil emissions. But these three are SO violent that they risk being disbelieved. They still do it, day after day: You’re Violent! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the gov’t, corporations, army and church abandoning us, we have the Earth’s dangerous evolution as our future. This “flipping-over” could be a good thing. The Earth will break the hold of totalitarian consumerism on our psyches. New transformations will have us feeling and seeing the Earth throughout our life. The Earth might deal tragedy, coming in over the horizon as a crashing horizon of mud, waves, viruses…. But there might be flowers in that apocalypse. Will the Earth come out of the background and arrive as simple love? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The criminals are in suits and the peaceful Earth is just plain dangerous. With CO2 and Methane pouring into the air, our protest criminalized by Republican laws, and hundreds of life forms vanishing weekly... the well-meaning humans are caught in a crossfire. The way out is to follow the seeds on the wind. Let’s do some spiritual farming. The map to our new kind of earth activism is there in the supernatural life of a seed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Consumerism is totalitarian, with constant repetitions, screen staring and the overwhelming threat of boredom. Then a natural disaster hits and a crack of hope appears. 200 mph winds for a couple days can really work wonders. Even a billionaire in outer space can clear the air for a moment. But products rush to fill any vacuum. It would be nice if we could say to each other that the physical environment is really collapsing and we had better do something to save ourselves... but a product sponsor will interrupt. The Earth, though, is releasing so much energy now, an eery silence is inviting us forward.
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I am a legitimate human being. You? You are evil unthinkable slime.” Each of the politicians says that about every other politician. It makes sense that here at the point of violence, we reach in our language a 3-ring circus of meaninglessness. The whole conversation is a sum total of conspiracy theories, the biggest ones being Wall Street and the Pentagon, along with Q-anon, Chase Bank, anti-vaxxers, Master Card… and the all of that casual lying violence that comes from many years of never saying what you mean. Let “spokespersons” “reputational consultants” and your local screaming racist - do the work for you. Not here at the earth church though. We don’t have time for the big lie and because here comes the Big Truth: The Sixth Extinction! Tune into Extinction Talk Radio. Earth Action Now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're working on a manifesto, a living document as guidance while the 6th Extinction rolls over us. There is not much teaching on the subject in a consumer society. Possibly our country is self-censoring because we want to monetize extinction but can't sell it. Is that why public figures give the Sixth Extinction the silent treatment? So we make up our own rules for living as the physical environment collapses around us. Our beliefs come from the common sense that can flourish in an imaginary community. So let's talk. How do we do this? Our manifesto needs to be like a clearing in a forest, a living document that updates as instantaneously as actual life. The Earth's extinction is showing the way, with fire and virus and flood, every hour of every day to the end. Earthalujah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Earth would be our lover except for totalitarian consumerism. Think of how the Earth has tried to reach us. And we have to include the fire and flood and virus with the beautiful Spring. Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are our guests at the Extinction Live Talk Radio, Sunday the 27th, 1 to 3 pm New York time. Come to REVBILLY.COM. These radical lovers urge us away from religious or commercial approaches to the vast unknown that surrounds us. We can re-feel our relationship to nature in this time of the Sixth Extinction. Do we need to continue with our aggression? Love the Earth. Return to the sensual. The Earth will caress the Earth in us. The host of Extinction Live Talk Radio is Rev Billy Talen, with Duchess and Teddy Tam Tam. Savitri D reports the News from the Natural World and the Sounds of Extinction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We stop CO2 from coming into our atmosphere by "breaking into public space". This means that we personally challenge the totalitarian consumer society. That breaking out might be scary and embarrassing at first. Walk through iti like its a doorway. Outside, the Earth has a vision for us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Sims is an artist, and a dear friend of The Church of Stop Shopping. Recently, John was roused from sleep at 2 AM by three white cops entering his apartment with guns drawn. This took place in Columbia, SC., where his AfroDixia exhibit is now installed, and he is artist-in-residence.
John's speech to the Columbia City Council, in the days following the scare, is included in full in this radio show. The Columbia police chief claims to be a leader in working with people traditionally marginalized. And yet, he says the cops "followed department protocols". Really? Mistakenly entering a private bedroom and handcuffing the occupant is police policy? Police racism, toxic water and air, racist payment patterns from FEMA after storms, etc. etc... Black and brown people are subject to state-sanctioned violence which is often also crime against the Earth. John's exhibit "AfroDixia: A Righteous Confiscation" can be seen at the Center for Contemporary Arts. His work re-envisions confederate imagery and history. This is an image from his show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the age of AI, UFO’s and quantum physics we are still clinging to our human centrism. Get over that. Honeybees have language and unprecedented one-celled animals have been witnessed marching out of solid rock a mile under the surface of the Earth. But we can’t believe that a tsunami, say, is thinking something? Stop it with your “Nature prove it to me” attitude. Disasters are messages. They are conscious and we are safer when we treat them with some respect.
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Hell waits for the executives of Chase, Bayer, Exxon. These men don't get caught with blood on their hands. They fly in a permanent jet, above their victims, far away. We try to serve them papers but they don’t use paper anymore. The 6th Extinction serves them the papers. Their corporate jets will stop in the sky. The children will board the plane and serve the papers, as they will with each and every one of us. We know, we all know what words will say. The children are already singing the words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Got a Vaccine for the 6th Extinction? Two teams. The Vaccines vs. the Virus Variants. Our heads turn without thinking toward the largest item in the arsenal of products offered by American consumerism. Win and Lose. More of that race toward the Binary. The institutionaliizing of fear. This is the best way to not notice where we are, on the earth with extinction underway. Recently the earth has suggested that we break through this drift of fear that creates and then kills the Other. The earth shook us out of the product stupor with Trump, the pandemic, and Black Lives Matter. Everything became more strange and wisdom came closer. It took that much to cause the pause, and yet here we go again. WAR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After witnessing the final scene in the new ban of RoundUp in New York City parks, we can say: These tortured molecules that now saturate our eco-systems are like Robert E. Lee statues that celebrate slavery. These chemical constructions are meant to be permanent, markers of imprisonment. We sense a strange business plan in the mass death encouraged by big fossil banks and their chemical company clients. Don’t they know what Extinction is? Do they really believe we'll go along with this? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oh we mean BANNED. The Church of Stop Shopping and The Black Institute helped ban the carcinogenic pesticide RoundUp from NYC parks. On Earth Day, the NY City Council unanimously banned this poison. 1,700 parks and 30,000 acres of greenery are filling up with children and picnics and lovers and joggers and birdwatchers. Now they won’t have to risk getting cancer. (Monsanto invented Agent Orange, Bayer manufactured Zyklon B gas and ran a slave-labor factory at Auschwitz). Hopefully throughout this country and the world these corporations will be sidelined by fines, jury awards, class actions by cancer victims. Hopefully they will be controlled by governments that work for the health of people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The guilty verdict in Minnesota comes down as Earth Day cries out. Can we live on the Earth without killing it? The rally where we celebrated the banning of Monsanto/Bayer's carcinogenic "RoundUp" from NY parks featured Bertha Lewis, the founder of ACORN and long-time advocate of no poison in the parks. Bertha shouted "Earth Justices is Racial Justice!" RoundUp, with its toxin Glyphosate, was sprayed more heavily for many years in the parks in neighborhoods of color. No More! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most of us are kept from the endless beautiful mysteries of our home eco-system. We walk inside cities made of pixels, pavement, traditions of violence. What if our fossilized culture suddenly had citizens that knew their eco-system like seeds? And what if, facing our current life-and-death reality, we need to know about our home place on this Earth. We are like seeds waiting for our radical love of the Earth. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Extinction is either believed to be fake science by the financial classes in the US, or it is their business plan. With the rise of trillionaire Jeff Bezos, the capitalist project in this country is taking the dumping of waste into the atmosphere to a new level of planet-heating recklessness. I use the "urban hipster" as my example of the self-erotics of consumption, but of course enablers of the mass killing now accelerating have many styles. We find hope for survival in the social movements Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wangari Maathai, rainforests, jaguars and Joanna Macy are tactical consultants in this ‘earth church.’ Savitri D’s “News from the Natural World” is transformed in a big cat attack and wind and rain. The new song from the Stop Shopping Choir: “The X in Extinction” features a confrontation with a “dead kid from 2044.” The question in this 29 minutes show is whether Earth, as it overwhelms the human species, will have a role for us. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There’s a massive counter-intuitive job up ahead, a gift from the Earth that we can’t refuse. The extinction is a mysterious process of death and life, and it is not a product. It is not culture-friendly, not in consumer society. We have never believed that the Earth can produce stories, but we must step into the story of The Sixth Extinction. We need to like the story-line and join up. Since the industrial revolution, especially in its Silicon Valley form, we haven’t known how to communicate with to the Earth. We are in danger of reducing modern civilization to a lonely masturbation, with special effects offering us vivid delusions. But the Earth runs things now. Its version of reality is sweeping all before it. Believe the science and believe your own eyes. Follow that up with a good, wild dream. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Sixth Extinction is underway and it is accelerating. But even talking about extinction is hard. It seems to be a subject beyond words. That is the opportunity. That is the starting point. Tenderness, loyalty, empathy, collective memory, giving… let’s just call all of that Love. Love can take us beyond our existing words to where language and meaning come from. That is where we need to go. We need to re-enter evolution, where the symbiosis of cooperation is the creator of new life. It’s a tall order. But life always was amazing. Earthalujah! ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There are 2 make-overs of fossil fuel culture coming to a life near you. One is the human version, call it “The Climate Movement”. The other is the idea that the Earth is proposing, call it Extinction, the 6th Extinction, Species Extinction, the End of Life As We Know It, the Apocalypse. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
But on the down low, subconscious selves are itching for more Extinction and entertainment capitalists know this. The plot of all the blockbuster films and video games is the end of the world. A steals-every-scene villain wants to kill us all. In fact, the demon DNA-bent BAT FROM OUTER CHINA would be a perfect super villain. Our subterranean self pays $20 to itch that itch. We sell our souls for most minor possible whiff of sadism. In a few months or years it won’t be a little kink. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's Earth Church we look for a place for the many varieties of radical activists to meet, not on Zoom. Where can identities mix, languages translation each other in mid-air, a good reckless imagination matter again with talk of a future that threatens no-one. We will share a knowledge that deadly evolution that is changing us as we breathe. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“I am legitimate. You, on the other hand, are evil unthinkable slime, in the opinion of normal, moral Americans.” Each of the representatives is saying this to everyone else. It’s no coincidence that here, at the point of violence, we reach in our language a 3-ring circus of meaninglessness. But the natural world has also invaded Washington, and I don’t mean the Coronavirus. In today’s Earth Church we offer a solution. Wear your hiking boots. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We are mostly made of living Earth. A small percentage of us, just our angry brains, is locked in revenge against Trumpists. This is also true of Trumpists. They are mostly living Earth, "sacred water" - like you and me. And their brains are raging at us and most anyone who is not white. It's the living Earth part of us, the beating heart and breathing and loving part of us, that can connect with others in spite of our judgmental minds... People will have to go to jail, and we all have to go to the Earth and work for the survival of life. If we only hate, we won't make it. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The consumerization of telling stories, of describing the act of living in the natural world, is so distorting that mass death cannot be put into words. It's hard to warn that there is danger if the warning is only spoken in faint echoes. If mass death threatens to lose money then it will be ignored and not noticed and we will be lifted a mile into the air by some wave of earth while we continue to watch Tic Toc. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Their mistake was letting us put a human hand on the Bible in the first place… because the Earth is in our fingers and that is like letting the wetlands plunge back into the city to pull down the luxury towers. The judge looks down at our fingers and feels the extinct animals flying laughing from our fingertips. The Judge screams “I BELIEVE IN Q’ANON!” and leaps into the crowd. Our hands rise like gigantic gardens in open revolt against God — women and snakes chasing the old god back across his seven days of creation. Back to the seed in the dark soil in the beginning. WE TAKE THE OATH TO THE SEED, a good joke, laughter, mutations, oddness, freedom, orgasms, Springtime… Earthalujah! ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We must compost our horror. Go to your favorite forest and scream until a million living beings gush down upon you. It's the fastest way to get back to the survival project called the Sixth Extinction. The polluters must look up and see a wave of well-meaning humans grabbing their carbon. We don't have time to return to 9/11 and its industrial Puritanism. The Earth recognizes us, how we are shifting the direction of the plot of our story, even as we live it. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Corona is governing us now. This is a tragic transformation in an evolutionary struggle. A new kind of activist, the Earthers, will transform the hell out of the thousands of Mitch McConnels who work for the fossil rich in this time of extinction. The young men in their confederate underwear only amounted to a bad Saturday Nite Live bit that afternoon at the capitol. Now the government of the Earth is coming. A democracy that does not use natural disasters to punish the poor. The Earth Democracy is the garden of eden without the shaming white god. And the garden grows, in the Earth's desire to take the empires to the compost heap. Earthalujah! ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As we sit in the intellectual stillness of our lockdown, our screens feature the latest superbowl. The team of mutating viruses is soundly defeating a team of hapless vaccines. We know that with this defeat we will be called before the Earth in the final judgement. We had a choice to make, we swiped with our card and returned to our comforts and conveniences. Now we're in hell. Hell is an Amazon fulfillment center where robots convenience us until we ... ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The mass death now underway will only accelerate if we believe that that super storm over there is a mechanical malfunction, and this pandemic over here is only the absence of a vaccine All the so-called natural disasters come from one source, which is a living being that is struggling to live through an extinction wave. The spinning wet blue and white ball in space is a life. We were supposed to be a participant. If we want the Earth to survive then we have to know her strategies and help her. Now that would be an Environmental Movement that MOVES. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com This podcast in an encore presentation of show #24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As annihilation races around the Earth, governments and corporations, armies and religions remain passive, as if this is their plan. These powers share a story reinforced by fear, silence, despair. The larger unreported pandemic has a myriad of interlocking diseases, and the powerful run it. Kurt Vonnegut, Chris Smalls and his Amazon workers, African coffee activists, The Stop Shopping Choir and the Fiery Eagles of Justice, join Rev and Savitri D - anchor of the News from the Natural World – in a search for that story of love that will have her way with extinction. ---- ALERT FOR NEW YORKERS: Join The Church of Stop Shopping and The Congress of Essential Workers on Wed Dec 23, 2020, 6 PM at the Manhattan mansion of Jeff Bezos, corner 26th St and 5th Ave. Bring an Amazon cardboard box. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Towards a secular spiritual activism. Standing Rock shows the way. (So does Black Lives Matter.). When activism succeeds and transforms how we live - there is always an underlying spiritual force. Justice for the planet is strongest when it comes from the Earth itself. The power is there in the thing we are trying to save. There's a trick in this. We have to invite the Earth to save us first, and white people don't know about that. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com
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The violence in the holiday sale is unseeable. The comforts and conveniences are a force field that scrambles our reception of the holy days. The design flaw in the beautiful machine of America is extinction, and we activists haven’t figured out how to dis-encrypt the message of the Earth that blows through us like hopeless love, like the last howling high notes of the animals that are entering death. There is no time to be anything but radical. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quotes from this week's Earth Church: 1) Earth to Humans: Start Your Apocalypse. - 2) To survive: All evidence points to the need for a quasi-religious transformation. - 3) We will leave behind piles of pixels and paper. Careerism is over. - 4) We built our sophistication behind 300 years of carbon. - 5) Can we break through convenience? Covid says yes that is possible. - 6) Children! We gotta teachable moment like a tsunami! - 7) Let's take the Fabulous Unknown from the Night Sky and Put it on our Hearts! - 8) We might have to turn into birds, like the dinosaurs did. That might be OK. - 9) If we survive Consumerism, then we lock arms at the cliff's edge, and get set to Evolve. - 10) We're jumping into the abyss shouting LIFEALUJAH! LIFEALUJAH! LIFEALUJAH! ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I mean, we've done everything we could. For the holidays, we stopped shopping. We don't drive. We turn off Zoom. That's what she wanted, right? Does she have compassion for us? We dive deeper and deeper into a smaller and smaller number of people. We are in the last room with this forced embrace of loved ones. We are here in a great city that doesn't make a sound. We wait. A bright yellow dirigible floats by in the window. It pulls a big sign: "CHANGEALUJAH! Love, COVID" ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Greatness” is supposed to describe unstoppable power. But people don’t have that anymore, the Earth is the power. Kings and Queens always insisted that they got their instructions straight from God. That arrogance still bears evil fruit in companies like Bayer, Chase, and Amazon, converting their pollution into cash. As Donald Trump suffers the humiliation of his “Emperor Has No Clothes” moment, we look to the Earth for our leadership. The current accelerating evolution is turning this macho strutting into something small that flies and sings. Think: Dinosaurs got turned into birds. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The politicians will go down insisting that climate change is just another “issue.” The machinery of denial will disappear in fire and flood, disease and starvation. But we are Earth-lovers in the Stop Shopping Church. We believe that there is a place for humans even this late in the apocalypse. That place is the Amazon Fulfillment Center, where the votes for our suffering and death are cast, as every seven days 1M metric tons of CO2 is spewed into the air, making it the dirtiest retail company in the US. Cast you protest vote at the distribution centers. Stop the Amazon jets and trucks! Evolvalujah! ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gaia theory says that the Earth is a conscious living being. Many people sense that this is true, but we think of her thoughts as impossible for us to understand. We think of nature’s intelligence as not of the logical or strategic sort. But why? It seems as if the bio-sphere of the planet is more involved in the elections than the Russians. The unprecedented pandemic and storms and fires – all derided by Trump’s tweets – are triggering responses in Americans on a basic common sense level. Don’t mess with Mother Nature. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We can’t imagine what will happen after the election. We can’t dream of what will follow the pandemic. All the old optimism, the hope for a good future, is gone. The reason: When Trump and the virus are history, we will still be continuing our mindless civil war. All these years the happy hate has distorted our lives, until it blends seamlessly into our language. We think its normal. But hate never stops working. It rewards its victims with a kind of pleasure, then treats its hosts to a very special blindness, in which prosperity & freedom is mistaken for the enormous undertaking of mass suicide. For how long have we been killing the life that gives us life? The impossible healing must start now. ---- The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We are trying to hold the blurring deadly motion back by labeling it and selling it, like the way we use super tragedies as programming between ads for tough trucks. For many years now, the modern economy has replaced everything that was disappearing, like wilderness areas, with virtual reality versions in video games, museum dioramas, etc. But the wilderness grew more and more silent. Then the trillionaires launched their ‘baby earth’, the ultimate product, a gated planet beyond the fire and flood and virus. The surprise was that millions of people appeared with the wilderness inside them. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The mass death now underway will only accelerate if we believe that that super storm over there is a mechanical malfunction, and this pandemic over here is only the absence of a vaccine and that wildfire over there is a failure to mop and rake California.... All the so-called natural disasters come from one source, which is a living being that is struggling to live through an extinction wave. The spinning wet blue and white ball in space is a life. We were supposed to be a participant. If we want the Earth to survive then we have to know her strategies and help her. Now that would be an Environmental Movement that MOVES. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When we’re free of this cycle of Two-Day White Sales and Eternity with the Right Wing – then we can apply for membership with the planet Earth. Joining up in 2020 is entering the game when Extinction is accelerating toward the final buzzer. If we survive, let’s be sure to be wildly in love! ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The now rolling-toward-us Apocalypse is very real, but the author of the storms and wildfires is the Earth, and so there’s love in the message that is raining down on us. We are modern humans, what can I say? Not much. Worse yet, we can’t listen or hear or love. We need the Earth that we have inside us to rise up, dancing, singing – yes thats it!! The bad preachers will be pulled out of their fumes by the indigenous revolution which we are invited to join when we're born. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The habit of hate, the back and forth cursing from climate and other culture war issues, needs out attention. Why is hate feeling so good? We all deny that we hate, but then we go back to denying our enemy’s basic humanity. The question in this weeks ‘earth service’ is: This hateful name-calling – does it somehow impact the wind and waves, the disease and drought? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Separating the kinds of mother love leaves us listless, de-politicized, anxious, empty. Who and why? The chosen people did it. The police did it. The butler did it. The corporate people spied a profit center in that love. Back in the Book of Genesis we made a deal to follow the pillar of fire, kill the goddesses and beasts and kill the natives waiting in our promised land. Or did this all happen earlier today, when I drove a car that put CO2 into the atmosphere? The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the violent events multiply, we begin to talk about the criminal in a new way. The villain is sick, bitter, a Devil. We just don't know what to do with our dream of thousands of disasters rushing over us. Why? Who? We haven't let ourselves reply to all this out-of-scale carnage. We aren't naming things, or making meaning, or even music. We are changing so completely that change isn't the word. There is one life behind all of this death, and that life is creating the dead and the survivors. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the nightmare of the news that the North Pole is now open water, not to mention 700 Cali fires, COVID across the country and Marco and Laura the Tinder date from Hurricane Hell.., the Rev is shocked into confronting the death wish of American passivity. What do we do? Can we save our children from the zombies and their disasters? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Extinction is either believed to be fake science by the financial classes in the US, or it is their business plan. With the rise of trillionaire Jeff Bezos, the capitalist project in this country is taking the dumping of waste into the atmosphere to a new level of planet-heating recklessness. I use the "urban hipster" as my example of the self-erotics of consumption, but of course enablers of the mass killing now accelerating have many styles. We find hope for survival in the social movements Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There is a line penned by Savitri D in our song "We Surround You" - which is about the revenge expressed by animals killed by extinction. "You take the names of what you kill. Our names are dead, but we still sing.." The lyric might be what the Amazon River would say to CO2-spewing Amazon Corp. In this episode of RBR, we explore the possibilities of a new kind of activism for the Earth. "What questions would the rivers ask us humans?" ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Frederick Douglass to Bobby Sands to Emma Goldment, a river of activism flows. The marches and rallies will not stop till police violence stops, till evictions and neighborhood destroyers stop. The oil companies and war machine and factory farming will find that the Earth is not kidding with the hard-ass evolution of her Sixth Extinction. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Black Lives Matter will never end, because the righting of this injustice is the American project after the empire dies, and it is dying now - glory be. The lie that Frederick Douglass described, in calling slavery a kind of freedom - that lie is shown to us by Black Lives Matter. Our culture is changing in real time. This is the return of the natural world. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "I Can't Breathe" of Eric Garner and George Floyd is the song of change. As Black Lives Matter comes home, can we carry our love like the brave songs of the Garner family? How deep do we drive the change into the suffocation of Consumer America? ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billy and the singers march home from Black Lives Matter and the Queer Liberation March with their ecstatic songs. The extinction keeps accelerating, but so does our consciousness. Will we get home before the final storm hits? Only the Earth knows which way the wind blows. ---- The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com
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White people are now coming home from the revolution. Twenty million of us in every state and many countries. The racism we shouted down awaits us in our everyday life. The racism is in disguise, excluding, profitable, resentful. Will we even see it? ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When we find that the sea-change is happening and we are riding a wave like Black Lives Matter, we can feel it everywhere, on the landscape and in our body and soul. The secret is to never stop the ritual that got us here, which is to SAY THE NAMES, every day and hour... This is a project of remembering more and more. ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The racism of American life has been called out finally and here we are. What does a white guy do? March and shout and listen for the next instruction or fit of conscience. This half-hour starts with Dragonfly, African American soloist with the Stop Shopping Choir, singing her call for revolution. Amen! George Floyd! Breonna Taylor! Ahmaud Arbrey! ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We will gradually, step by step, emerge from our lockdown, and hopefully uncover our faces and draw closer and touch. The defense against he pandemic has become symbolic of our powerlessness and financial terror in the face of aggressive institutions. We are suffering a separation from each other, and from public space, and from each other in public space. But if and when the virus sets us free, we must use the lessons of care-giving that we learned during this terrible time to defend ourselves from the flood of products, religions, credit schemes, conjobs of all kinds - that are bound to target us. This will be a time of change, but let’s create the change ourselves. Change-a-lujah! ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billy can’t stop the orange bleeding, then thanks the care-giver who lives downstairs. ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wall Street screams. They want us back. The White House pleads. Return! Come back to fear! Fear! ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Some call it death, some call it life, makes us keep on dancing day and night.” ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billy plants a rainbow gay-pride flag at the back door of a preacher who wants all genders different from his own to burn in Hell. Billy goes to jail. ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Earth is a conscious living being. What does that mean? Billy hallucinates many answers. ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billy now in lockdown, starts hearing voices. Is the virus taking over the preaching? ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First days of the Coronavirus in New York, Billy tries to get his memory back. Where has he been? Who has he been with? ----
The Stop Shopping Choir’s music director is Nehemiah Luckett. The director of the Church of Stop Shopping is Savitri D in New York. The Fiery Eagles of Justice are Brendan Burke (drums) & Jason Candler (sax). Produced by Reverend Billy & Jason Candler. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Thanks to Neil Young and community for inclusion in the Times-Contrarian. Reverend Billy is William Talen. www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices