I’m talking about big oil banks.  Their weapons are bombs and bullets, oil-heated buildings, exhaust pipes, methane leaks at fracked gas wells…. 

Fossil fuel.  And why call them governments? The budget of Chase would make it the 11th largest country, if we called it a country.  And BlackRock’s budget is the size of Germany and France combined.  Our humor and music - is it getting through?  Because we don’t need more statistics.  We know how bad the fires and floods are.  We gotta find our direct action.  How will we save life?  Can we?  Will we?  Will you?

We have special Wilderness Areas for humans who continue to look to consumerism, monotheism, and ICE for solutions to the ecocide called modern living.

If you run a trillion dollar Big Oil Bank, or the 101st Airborne Division, or a Sports Franchise with celebrities, lawyers and reputational consultants, you might mistake a climate change era superstorm for a computer that has been hacked and needs servicing. You might think that Canada's 800 wildfires can be fixed with AI.  The Earth is the Real Government. 

How can we find a sense of the world that we have lost? Witness life together.

Walking out of consumerized hypnosis and into the strange light of a new world, we might feel strange but we know we can change. And every time we wonder how we are going to do it we just have to find each other. Witness together. There is information everywhere, pay attention to the information that surprises you, and let yourself be surprised by who is standing next to you.

Oh yeah we see the violence that dying institutions and rabid damaged strongmen are throwing at us.

And suddenly we remember that there are more witnesses than there are criminals; more of us who feel the blows and cuts and poisons than there are people who are resigned to being hurtful.  And deep inside the souls of each of these violent ones is an interior, suppressed witness.  We can free that conscience - so that killers are filled with peace; so that they can save life, comfort life and love.  Earthalujah!

The process of rally and march and rally and march could be transformed by a complete surprise, by subversive humor…

The Church of Stop Shopping preached and sang for a 24 hours on Earth Day, midnight to midnight facing the grand doorway of the top fossil fuel investor, JPMorgan Chase. The big oil bankers seeing us in their windows may have found us frivolous, or annoying or even unnerving…. We think it may stick in their heads.  Our activist friends joined us in running around and around the monster building dressed like old-style bankers, tophats and vests and pin stripes

AI could only be taken seriously if our actual intelligence was actually harmed.  Now is the time to reject AI in the form of local resistance of the data centers, then return to our own thoughts.  

Go back to our native thinking, and re-learn our own wisdom, which wants to taste "something flying beyond the sky."  The AI ideal is instantaneous mystery-free knowledge, but it is actually more infrastructure, like the fossil fuel industry, whose power is without dreaming or common sense or Love.  Loving the Earth is NI, Natural Intelligence, which offers us the lustrous questions that heal us and gives us the power to stand between our community and the billionaires.

The streets surrounding the new Chase Bank world HQ, 67-story brown block of stone in the heart of Manhattan - have no vendors.  That's right:  no falafels or espressos or hot dogs.  

Oh yes, the bank that invests in more climate toxicity than any other, doesn't like those immigrant vendors.  None of the 14,000 workers inside the monster bank works remote, not ever.  Bossman Jamie Demon is strict on this issue. Work here, where I can see you. There are falafels and espressos and hot dogs for sale inside the Demon's monstrous building. In fact there are 19 restaurants, and food is delivered to your desk, so you can keep working.  In this hollow dark dead street the Stop Shopping Choir loves to sing, "Breaking Into Public Space!"  

Each of us in this time of life and death emergency will be required to go to the extreme outer limits of our personalities.  I'm preaching for 24 hours straight.  What is your soul doing?

Life on Earth is migrating thousands of miles in strange directions...   The President calls the Earth a hoax and Allah the devil.  The bombs are dropping.  The children of the bombing receive the evil.  Let's give them the Earth.  Peace is always possible.  Peace beams into the rubble, into the wounds.  The Earth insists on survival and offers a ride.  If we say YES to the Earth then we submit to Radical Evolution, to loving life.

Heat Death!  Notice This!  Planet Criers! Over-the-Top Alarmists!  Now!  Do!  What!  We can't run and we can’t hide!  Burst into flames slowly!  Give yourself a chance to think!

What do we do?  Stop Shopping!  Stop Bombing!  Start Loving - but first, let out an articulate blood-curdling scream!  The global heat wave spreads fire and flood, drought and starvation, for three years.  We don’t notice.  We don’t remember.  Was the information censored or maybe the month of March wasn’t the hottest month that we know of?  Rising 9 degrees?  Impossible.  

I was trying to set up a show inside a beautiful forest. I thought I was being a smart Environmentalist.  Put the forest on the air.

In the first few minutes of this Earth Riot the forest keeps stopping the show, without explanation. I feel myself being pulled to another part of the forest, who is pulling me. The forest leaves Savitri D and Neil Young alone... they don't get interrupted. When I'm in a new part of the forest I find my equipment works fine so I restart my cheerful welcoming remarks and then the wild kingdom pulls the plug again. Can a whole forest be a trickster? Can an ecosystem mess with a well-meaning human? Can the entire Earth be playing us for a fool?