The Earth Wants YOU!: Recent Episodes
The Church of Stop Shopping
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community. We are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists. The Earth Wants YOU! is their podcast hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D. Earthalujah!
Lyrics based on William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming" conceived by William Talen Music by Nate Stevens and Nehemiah Luckett
Performed by Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Produced by Travis Tench
Bass - Nate Stevens Drums - Eric Johnson Piano/Lead Vocals/Music Director - Nehemiah Luckett
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We get an update from Australia where Reverend Billy and Savitri D are leading a choir of Stop Shoppers around the continent, shouting down borders and burying walls. An impressed Lena Nightstar Talen gives us her experiences with the Australian Nature.
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We offer you a golden die from our archives as we continue to work on the relaunch of the show.
Earthalujah!
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We are joined by No Mas Muertes/No More Deaths who have been doing humanitarian work along the US/Mexico border for the past 10 years helping the migrants making the dangerous journey through the deserts.
We have News From The Natural World with Savitri D, covering all the news related to the Earth that is happening right now, Reverend Billy gives his sermon, we hear the sounds of the Manatee, now endangered and as always, music from the Stop Shopping Choir.
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We are joined by the 3 farmers from New York who chained themselves outside a power plant in New Milford last week.
We also travel to two different protests in NYC on Martin Luther King Day, one in Chinatown and another Black Lives Matter protest.
News Of The Natural World, Extinctions Got Talent and Reverend Billy's Sermon round of the episode.
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We are joined by Artist and Activist Jex Blackmore former spokesperson from the Satanic Temple, who gives us some sobering thoughts on the world of today and how letting in a bit of Satan might be just what we need.
News Of The Natural World, Reverend Billy's Sermon, Extinctions Got Talent and special footage from the Launching of Extinction Rebellion New York.
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We are joined by Brazilian Activists and Anthropologists; Rafaella, Marcelo and Black 7 to talk about the Bolsanaro governments aims to open the Amazon up to mining and agribusiness which will have terrible effects on the planet.
We talk about the Animals which have been extinct over 2018, we hear the News from the Natural World, Activist News: Drums of the Revolution and Reverend Billy gives his Sermon.
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We bring you our interview with Glen Cantave from last June which is very relevant still today.
We will be back with a new episode next week.
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We are joined by Sara Gozalo on the border of Tijuana who is offering humanitarian and legal aid to the caravan.
Reverend Billy and Savitri D read their Christmas poem about the Three Wise Men.
News Of The Natural World and Extinctions Got Talent are rounded out with a Sermon from the Reverend.
Happy Christmas Listeners.
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We talk about the Stansted 15 arrested for their environmental action in London. We talk about consumerism and Christmas and how they are terminally linked.
World famous activist Patricia Okoumou is sainted by the Church of Stop Shopping for her work against the Trump administration.
We interview Pooja Heji, from the National Lawyers Guild who has just returned from the border of Tijuana and seen the injustices along the US border.
News From The Natural World, Extinctions Got Talent, Activist News, Reverend Billy's Sermon and more!
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Climate Change Climate Change Climate Change.
Reverend Billy and Savitri D listen to the speech made by David Attenbourough at the COP24 and comment on the impending disaster of climate change.
Clare Farrell one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion talks to us about the mass civil disobedience which they have been organizing in the UK.
News From the Natural world covers the COP24 and Trumps plan to look for oil in the Atlantic. Our Extinct animal this week is the Nightingale and Reverend Billy finishes out with his Sermon.
All music from the Stop Shopping Choir.
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Ravi Ragbir reports from the border of Tijuana where the US are using tear gas on the immigrants seeking assylum in the US, much of them women and children.
Savitri D and Reverend Billy perform a radio play. News Of the Natural World and Reverend Billy's Sermon plus music from the Stop Shopping Choir
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We read a message from Joan Baez about the Californian Fires. We celebrate Buy Nothing Day or "Black Friday" which the Church of Stop Shopping celebrates every year.
We interview Dulce and Chars Ford about overpopulation, climate change, new ways of life and a life passed shopping.
News Of the Natural World, Reverend Billy's Sermon and music from the Stop Shopping Choir.
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We get a report from Tom Price, a longtime environmentalist, at the front lines of the devastating Californian Fires which have ravaged across the country destroying wildlife, homes and killing many.
We discuss the First World War commemoration, 100 years after The Great War. Savitri D presents News of the Natural World, Activist News goes to Cork City, Reverend Billy preaches up a storm and The Stop Shopping Choir sing their hearts out.
"Life is a temporary condition with a fatal prognosis"
Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the midterm results, what that means for the Earth, and highlight their recent actions in New York City
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We talk midterms and how it effects the environment. We have the surprising sound of the cheetah and a storm preached up by Imani henry.
Music from the Stop Shopping Choir and a Sermon from Reverend Billy.
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We discuss the recent election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil and the terrible, irreversable consequences this has for the Brazilian Rainforests.
We are joined by Immo Klink of the Space Hijackers from London who speaks to us about alternative radical communities in Europe and how we can imagine a different way of living.
We listen to the sounds of the Rainforest, we go through the News of the Natural World and Reverend Billy gives his sermon.
https://spacehijackers.org
This Week On the Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy returns from Iowa where he was arrested 2 years ago for protesting outside of Monsanto's Oscars. Winning his court case he returned to protest even closer to the building than before, causing a ruckus! We have footage from the protest and an interview with Nehemiah Luckett.
We talk about Trans Rights, the Asiatic Lion and the News From the Natural World.
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We are joined by Legendary activist and founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin who talks about her friend Jamal Khoshoggi who has made headlines all over the world after his disappearance at the hands of the Saudis.
Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the plastic, climate change and how and why to stop using water bottles.
News From the Natural World, Activist News, Extinctions Got Talent and Reverend Billy's Sermon.
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Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the UN IPCC report which says we only have 12 years to mitigate Climate Disaster. How do we respond?
We are joined by members of Chinatown Working Group (chinatownworkinggroup.com, donate to their legal fees gofundme.com/leson) who are fighting within a diverse group, the illegal plans to build massive condo style towers in the last working class neighbourhood in Manhattan.
News Of the Natural World, Activist News and Extinctions Got Talent plus Reverend Billy's Sermon.
Nick Powers joins us again to discuss the problem of Toxic Masculinity and White Male Rage that was displayed in BRett Kavanaughs hearing
We continue our practice of listening to the stories of women and victims of sexual assault/harassment.
We also have News of the Natural World, recordings from Bernie Krause, a Sermon from Reverend Billy and songs from the Stop Shopping Choir
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We have 4 women give their accounts of assault that happened over the course of their lives and how it affected them. We learn how to listen without judgement.
Activist News, News From the Natural World, Extinctions Got Talent and Reverend Billy's Sermon
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We talk Hurricane Florence and the disaster porn of the news stations which profit of it. Occupy Wall Street is commemorated on its 7th Birthday.
Amadeus Harte joins us on the phone from Dublin to discuss Sean Binder, a young Irish Student who has been arrested along with Sarah Mardini in Greece and face 20 years in jail for their work helping the migrants there.
Also: News Of The Natural World Activist News: Drums of Revolution Extinctions Got Talent Music and more
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We are joined by legendary activist Mike Roselle to talk about the state of the Earth in the face of Climate Change and what the Environmental movement has been doing wrong.
Michael Higgins then joins us from FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality who talks about the massive March Against Gentrification in Brooklyn this weekend.
"The liberation of your capital is not the liberation of your soul"
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Reverend Billy and Savitri D are back in the studio together after a long summer touring Greece, Switzerland, California and New York. They recap the Summer from Burning Man to Neil Young and Darryl Hannah's wedding to Tourists Against Trump and Californian Fires.
News Of The Natural World strikes a somber tone, Orangutans are extinct and Monsanto is still the ever diminishing Devil.
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Sedge Thomson gives a special report from Zurich at the Spektakle Festival with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.
Savitri hosts the show as Reverend Billy is away at Burning Man, Monsanto is in the News of the Natural World, Aretha Franklin sings, German Beer is not chemical free, the Bahamian Nuthatch has been spotted and 18 miles of Coral Reef has found off the coast of the US.
This Week Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are touring in Zurich at the Spektakle Festival, we will be back with the regular The Earth Wants YOU! next Tuesday.
As a treat, here is a fantastic, short unreleased audio piece from the good Reverend Billy.
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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping take their Tourists Against Trump movement to Times Square at its busiest and face off with the Naked Cowboy, several Trump Trolls and receive hearty support.
We interview Zen Honeycutt from Moms Accross America and discuss the recent Monsanto Lawsuit.
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Fire is the theme of the show, fire is everywhere. We have Rick Anderson a fire expert come on and explain us in fascinating detail the human relationship with fires, what the Europeans did wrong in the US and why sometimes you have to let it burn.
Our extinct animal is the heartbreaking story of the grieving Orca mother who has carried her stillborn calf for 2 weeks. Follow the story here: https://bit.ly/2KGmQs0#
We finish with Trump Depression Hotline, Reverend Billy answers questions from people around the world who are experiencing a blues brought on by the Trump administration.
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We bring you our radio documentary on the New York Sanctuary movement. We focus on the activities of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the US and how the public have reacted.
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Billy and Savitri have returned from Greece and introduce their new global social movement #touristsagainsttrump
We also plan for Thursdays What Would You Pack? deportee solidarity action at Foley square in Manhattan.
Later we have an interview from Greece with Daniel Wetzel a veteran of radical experimental theatre.
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We get an update from Savitri and Billy from Greece and their #touristsagainsttrump protests in Athens. The Stop Shopping Choir have a round table discussion over the action.
We have Peter Rugh from The Indypendent in the studio to discuss his recent arrest in New Jersey and their victory in getting newspaper boxes back on the streets in record time.
We also have music from Hondurus and News of the Natural World.
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Savitri and Reverend Billy are still in Greece and give us an update on their travels and how it feels to be in the philosophical basin of the world while the Trump regime rages on in the US.
Sarah Schulman joins us again for an interview about how to build a successful movement, how Act UP acted and what tactics are necessary to make some change.
We have music from Europe, a brief proverbial mention of the football World Cup, Extinctions Got Talent, News From the Natural World.
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Sarah Schulman comes in for an interview about the history of AIDS in New York and how the first step is always activism.
The Water Crisis dominates the news.
Before that we have notes from Athens sent to us by Savitri and Billy as they tour Greece.
This week we bring a bonus episode of The Earth Wants YOU! produced in collaboration with Sprouts, radio from the grassroots.
We continue the story of the Sanctuary movement in New York City. We focus on the activities of ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) in the US and how the public have reacted.
We follow the activism of immigrant rights groups in New York City such as Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, The New Sanctuary Coalition and countless others as they try stop ICE in their tracks.
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Glen Cantave joins us. Glen is the founder of Movers and Shakers a coalition that executes direct action and advocacy campaigns for marginalized communities using virtual reality, augmented reality and the creative arts. He talks about being in Charlottesville confronting white nationalists, hope in the age of Trump and how to be an effective activist. Also this week Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir protested outside the EPA offices in New York City, we have live footage and reports. News Of The Natural World and Extinctions Got Talent there as well as always.
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We discuss the recent death of trans refugee Roxana Hernandez who was failed by the State recently and paid the price with her life, dying in ICE custody. We demand justice. The iconic Ashley Brockington comes in to discuss the changing face of New York City's weird and wild scene at which shes been the centre of for decades. Reverend Billy preaches up a storm and Savitri D delivers her report from the Natural World
This Week At The Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy and Savitri D, bring in Mark and Emer, two young Irish people who flew home to vote in the recent momentous referendum to Repeal the 8th Amendment in Ireland which prohibited abortion. We also discuss the battle to Save Union Square, the tactics which were used and the creative actions that took place. We have the Irish Pine Martin as our extinct animal and Reverend Billy answers questions on the Trump Depression Hotline.
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! We talk about Irelands upcoming referendum to Repeal the 8th ammendment, we listen to the long and scary News From the Natural World, we celebrate the Royal Wedding with a song from PJ Harvey and interview two longtime Brooklyn Activists about how to improve our neighbourhood and protest effectively.
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We have an energetic episode with Mo Beasley from FUREE(Families United For Racial and Economic Equality). Reverend Billy reports from the hearing of Ravi Ragbir, Savitri D gives us the News of the Natural World, Larry Harvey is remembered and Travis Tench from the Stop Shopping Choir eats a salad.
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy is out of town, Savitri D brings us the story of la Zad (Zone A Defendre) in Nantes which was attacked by 2500 French police this month. John Jordan from The Laboratory of Insurrection, who has lived there for several years, joins us for an interivew.
Today on The Earth Wants YOU! We deal with the tragic shadow in our New York neighborhoods, the abductions of long-time New Yorkers, fathers pulled from living rooms, children looking on in horror. Our guest in the studio was the co-founder of the New Sanctuary Movement, Juan Carlos Ruiz, who already this morning was dealing with disappearances, as the Blackwater USA-like immigration cops snatch loved ones without communicating reasons, whereabouts, health or injury...
This week on the Earth Wants YOU! we are joined by Tim De Christopher from Climate Disbedience Center to talk about the recent self immolation by David Buckel and the despair that often comes hand in hand with Environmental Acitivism. We also have The News Of The Natural World and a wonderful interview with Barbara Lee from the Stop Shopping Choir
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We talk with June from NYC Shut It Down about the murder of Saheed Vassell, who was shot last week in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. We cover gentrification's role in Police violence. This week in the news; humans are swallowing more plastic than ever, humpback Whales sound like Charlie Parker and the Stop Shopping Choir are singing their songs louder than ever. email revbilly@revbilly.com for any queries or questions https://www.youcaring.com/saheedvassell-1161848 https://www.gofundme.com/nycshutitdown
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by 3 energetic youths who attended the recent "Justice for Stephon Clark" rally in New York where 1 of them was arrested. We talk about growing white nationalism, systemic racism, the growing movement and listen to them as they give their visions of alternatives to Capitalism.
This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We have interviews and footage from the March For Our Lives in Washington, reflection on the murder of 22 year old Stephon Clark, an energetic interview with the inspiring Imani Henry from BANgentrification and Equality for Flatbush. Its Savitri D's birthday and we have some sombre sounds from the endangered spider Monkey.
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by Al Jazeera journalist Kirsten Saloomey and activist, artist Dragonfly (aka Miss Justice Jester aka Robin Laverne Wilson aka soprano in the Stop Shopping Choir). We discuss the two actions the choir were involve with this weekend, one on liberty Island and the other on bikes outside a detention center in the West Village. Kirsten Saloomey talks fake news and media literacy and we all listen to the haunting sounds of the blue-throated Macaw.
Today’s radio ruminating is upon the subject of PIPELINES AND PASSPORTS. We need to make this mental leap: The fossil fuel extraction is the same thing as the extraction of people, I. e. Americans who are called illegal and are terrorized, seized from their homes, by the immigrant cops. Pipelines and passports. The Earth’s blood is drained from it and burned to fix toxins in our atmosphere, soil and water. And the manufacture of fear by our President, demonizing everyone who is the OTHER, from Mexicans to Moslems to all women - just everyone he can curse…. FEAR brings Trump his power and it is fear that brings his constituency their billions. The more the fear the more they manhandle us, ending life as we came to enjoy it by killing our neighbors and killing the Earth. But we counter with our fierce love, don’t we children?
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! The West Virginia Teacher's strike! 1.5 million penguins are found in the Antartic, Katrina Spade comes in to talk about body composting and environmentally friendly ways of getting rid of corpses. Savitri and Billy discuss dreams and Billy reads a tweet.
This week on The Earth Wants You! We are joined by the renowned Diana Taylor to discuss Activism, Protest and the growing youth movements in the US. Reverend Billy's negative mentor Billy Graham passes away, we take questions from the listeners and collectively mourn as Savitri introduces the terrifying growl of this week's extinct animal, the Amur Leopard.
This special Episode of The Earth Wants YOU! follows the growing immigration rights movement in NYC, specifically the story of Ravi Ragbir, a New York based immigrants rights activist who is facing deportation.
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by Louis from Gays Against Guns,"an inclusive direct action group...committed to nonviolently breaking the gun industry's chain of death". The Peruvian Plantcutter (which sounds oddly like the Reverend's Aunt Emma) is this week's extinct animal. http://www.gaysagainstguns.net/
This week on the Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy and Savitri D are joined by legendary Washington DC based cannabis rights activist Adam Eidinger, who's been arrested more times than a cat has lives. They talk the importance of home cultivation, legalization without commercialization and the systemic racism of cannabis laws.
Legalize it Don't Commercialize it
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! John Sims, the "almost unbearably brilliant" artist from Detroit speaks to us about Love and Power in the Age of Trumpism. Martin Luther King and Walt Whitman help us find the Square Root of Love just in time for Valentines Day. Grizzly Bears are on Extinctions Got Talent and Savitri D discusses the incredible action at Columbus Circle this week.
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! we talk to Felix Cepeda about how established religions should do more to offer sanctuary for immigrants. We live stream for the first time, Savi tells us the carbon implications of our favourite lunchtime snack and Billy gets lost down the New Age Wormhole. NO DEPORTATIONS
This Week On The Earth Wants YOU! Ricardo Dominguez of the Electronic Disturbance Theatre talks about Civil Disobedience in the Age of Smartphones, Savi and Billy get Big Headed about their Big Heads, Happy Birthday David Bowie and a Warwardly Trip down the New Age Wormhole.
Ravi Ragbir of the New Sanctuary Coalition and the Bass Section of the Stop Shopping Choir has been Detained by ICE and is Facing Deportation.
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This week on The Earth Wants YOU! Protest, Tears, Friendship, Hope, No Borders, No Walls, No Deportations
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! Billy gets brain-freeze from the bomb cyclone, Savi tries to become an optimist with the help of a news stroy from the Children of Palau and an uplifting interview with the Reverend John Gibbons.
This week on The Earth Wants YOU! podcast Reverend Billy and Savitri D kick the patriarchy out the door and revel in the freedom. They are also joined by the host of Law and Disorder, Michael Smith, to discuss 9/11, Parrots, the Jersey Girls and the apparent lack of a strong antiwar movement. Earthalujah! http://revbilly.com/ https://lawanddisorder.org
jesuswasababygirl and the Bread and Puppet Theatre. This week on The Earth Wants YOU! Reverend Billy and Savitri D bring their unique brand of environmental comedy to a discussion on the culture of hashtags, later they interview Maura Gahan from the Bread and Puppet theatre about the incredible work from the 50 year old organisation, and take a long and waywardy trip down The New Age Wormhole.
This week on The Earth Wants You! Reverend Billy loses his keys, Savitri D. presents the News of the Natural World and journalist/writer Nick Powers is interviewed about his recent report from the devastation of Puerto Rico.