Earth Riot Radio Reverend Billy and Savitri D

The powerful thing about this experiment is that we are talking directly to people about the Earth’s crisis.  It’s not graphics, mass mailings, or social media’s pixels. In the first three shows the choir and I played to 21,000 people. Our job is like an opening act, but also we are hosting the event of the LOVE EARTH tour.  Neil and his partner Daryl Hannah came to us to help them convey the meaning of the tour.  
Moving from our storefront “Earthchxrch” in the East Village, we gasped at the shift in scale, like a pleasurable version of the bends. When we wake up on the bus the morning after a show, the pleasure we feel is that we have blasted into the sweeping landscape of messages like “Let’s make a new kind of activism for the Earth!” ….and “Can we be strange enough to change enough?” …and “Love is the Earth’s radical gift.  Let’s use it for Life!”

Would love to hear from you as we disappear into the thousands of people and thousands of miles.

Beatles, Panthers, Standing Rock, David Graeber, Act-Up, Earth First, XR. Today as we prepare to tour with Neil Young, we find ourselves wondering: Can a famous activist or group make change on the level that the Earth needs? Or is Consumer Society always pushing such people to depoliticize?

“There must be more to life!” was the cry as the new movement toward Earth-friendly Love took root in a White Christian Nationalist enclave of rural Texas. Worshippers were stranded with their Bibles as the mass of Trumpers seemed to veer off during a Pentecostal hymn that spun out of control. Senior church officials lamented “You could feel a happy Devil take them away” as congregants began to tumble to the carpet, amid kisses and cries of abandonment.

The Earth is the protester now. We don't know how to join her and - we must. The consume-life economy will oppose any effort to break out of the virtual world of American-style capitalism. We are all the natural disaster. We are inside the tsunamis and quakes and typhoons and heat-waves and fires and floods... We are inside the disappearance of life forms. We cannot oppose the Earth. The Extinction takes life and blesses birth– our wave to ride.
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It is clearly a moment for a new approach to defending the Earth. All manner of protests can be absorbed by the police and their corporation sponsors. Control of the press, shadow-banning of social media, the constant presence of aggressive marketing - the sources of climate toxins have had many years to perfect their response to standard protesting. But the quasi-religion advocated by the Ehrlichs allows for a regard for the intelligence of nature put forward by James Lovelock and Lyn Marguliis in the Earth as Gaia. This means that activists are a part of a larger living being. Direct actions become rituals, and we are the fire and the flood.

Always invite the Earth - the living being who creates living beings that become a part of it - to whatever event you are hosting. If you are negotiating with New York City about what to do with the 10,000 migrants arriving each month, and you don't have the Earth at the table, then you are pissing in Hell. First of all, they are coming here because we invited them, as we in turn were invited... Second, you will drift into professional gibberish very easily. For instance, you might call "Love" something like "mitigating food and shelter insecurity...." Please put the Earth into the words you use, especially around the children.

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