Earth Riot Radio

Trump is trying to build a wall.  The Earth eats walls.  Trump puts fear in dreams.  The Earth puts love in dreams.  The Earth puts love in dreams to keep out the fear.  The Earth is what people are made of, the materials of the Earth and the electricity in a thought and a beating heart and --- We are agents of the Earth.  The Earth is life making life and we are living the lives that the Earth loves.

The Earth is everywhere all the time, it's you and me and the ideas, pixels and bad breath that connect us. The Earth is in charge and what they (the Earth is non-binary, we believe in the Church of Stop Shopping) - what they are working hard at just now is something called the Sixth Extinction. In the Earth Riot Radio world this is what has replaced the nation state, religion and military. It is deep, extreme Evolution. Oh Earthalujah! Spare us! Give us a strange strength we have never known! And may we laugh till we die!

The only way back to radical change is

Through justice for all people, and

Justice for all living things.

One of those living things is 

all of life put together, the planet Earth.

The only way back to any life at all is

Loving the Earth!

Every show rocked with pandemonium at the end. Then people wouldn't leave. Our 12 singers

and musicians joined an audience that became a party that became a town hall meeting. 

They stayed to talk and listen with such conviction that they impacted the content of the

next performance. (We had 3 performances in two days in London.)  The idea that the 

Earth is alive, communicating with us; that we are entering a new era of Earth activism; that

the Earth is the leading activist and that we should wait for the signs. Standard "Earth Riot

Radio preaching" yes, but still, this intensity surprised us. People are looking for radical 

change in how they share life with this living Earth. Earthalujah!

We don't know what it will take to stop the climate catastrophe. We haven't found it yet. Let's look everywhere for a way to stop this great machine; there must be a weak link there somewhere. One approach: Pull out and re-direct some part of the machine that they assume can never disobey, like a highway cone, like you and me...

Today's Earth Riot is for you activists. Keep talking to the Earth as you risk arrest, crossing the property-line, of a criminal organization like Chevron. You are both talking to yourself, because you are the Earth, and you are talking to the Earth outside of you. But don't let the Earth be inside you only, you'll lose your place 

in the world. And don't let the Earth be outside you only, because then you are a tourist. Let the Earth be inside and outside, and the only analogy that really works is the inside/outside relationship of a lover.

Earth must flood us all and downpour you and I into the valley below when we have built up a false border with our fear. Defeat the religions, militaries, nation states and racial hatred... Borders need to be washed away now, and fear made useless. In this "flying" episode from June of 2023 we flow the borders away with flood and flight. This is the project of love that the Earth is calling for, and the Earth couldn't be clearer as the hurricanes keep coming and all we have to offer is war.

Every Human and More than Human has a song to sing and we have a variety of singers this week, from Nigeria to LA to NYC to Ecuador to South Africa to a swelling wave of Snow Geese... There is an unmistakable swing in institutions from Peace to Violence - you see it in religions, corporations, nation-states. Official fear everywhere. But - the Earth is alive with living beings singing and deep in the melody and beat there is a shout of Peace-a-lujah!

The “repetition” of the song’s “melody-tone tempo,” she explains, provides a shared sonic “meeting place” and “stage” where our emotions can temporarily liberate individual identities. What Savitri D calls the “transformational potential” of singing with other people and (we would add), singing with the songs that radiate from the forest at night, a coral reef, an alpine meadow... Your favorite eco-system has a symphony of songs. Sing along and have your action.

In this week's "Earth Riot" we bring in Estonia, where song-power is demonstrated by Estonia's resistance to Stalinism and Nazism with huge concerts starring the whole country! and - Chile, resisting the fascist Pinochet and his killers with the songs of Victor Jara and the womens' chanting dance: "The Rapist in Your Path".  From our own continent we have Sam Cooke believing that "A Change is Gonna Come" and Ojibwai drummers up in their spirit, as your hosts Savitri D and Reverend Billy hold forth with the Earth's soundtrack.  Earthalujah!