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Is any resistance to our carbon-based life style gonna happen? For years now screaming doomsayers have predicted these drowning and burning cities, the starvation and drought and disease. Is the Sixth Extinction underway? This week, with music from Common and the Fiery Eagles of Justice and The Stop Shopping Choir and lots of bullfrogs…. We ask: Can We be Strange Enough To Change Enough?  

Tom Price co-founded Burners Without Borders, Black Rock Solar, and a company that gifts clean-burning kitchens to people in Kenya.Tom and Stuart talk about the weather, specifically hurricanes, and how Burners Without Borders started and persists in the face of extreme circumstances because Burners are extreme!Tom's tales of adventure include paperwork pranks and ad hoc Cajun catharsis. If Burning Man is a permission engine, giving people agency in their lives, he says that part of the lesson of Burning Man is finding out what is too much permission, then stepping back, and building aptitude to have agency, and responsibility for it. Note: The sponsor names joked about here are NOT sponsors of Burning Man, because Decommodification!Burners Without BordersBlack Rock SolarTom Price: Burning Man JournalBurning Man LIVE: Tom Price and the Benefactor's Dilemma (2022)Burning Man LIVE: Creative Solutions to Mass Destruction (2020)TEDx Black Rock City: Tom Price: Beyond Burning Man (2011)ecosafi.com LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

After reporting on state/church news around the country, FFRF's Senior Counsel Sam Grover tells us about the FFRF court victory against the Texas governor that took nine years to finalize! We hear the song "Because" by Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Then, we speak with "Reverend Billy" (William Talen), the "pastor" of the secular Earth Church in New York City who uses performance art to combat consumerism and save the planet.

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community based in New York City. They have led campaigns against Starbucks and Disney over the companies' gentrification of New York City, against Wall Street banks such as JPMorgan Chase over its funding of oil, gas and coal, and many street actions against politicians and other corporate actors. They merge theater, music, satire and direct action to speak truth to the all-powerful. This spring they have been touring with Neil Young and Crazy Horse. We talk with co-founders of the Church of Stop Shopping, Reverend Billy (@revbilly) and Savitri D. about Neil Young's Earth Love tour. ----------------------------------- Outro- "End of the World" by the Church of Stop Shopping. Links// + Reverence Billy's website: http://revbilly.com + The Indypendent: Reverend Billy's Revelations (https://bit.ly/3Kkkj7X) + Earth Riot Radio (https://bit.ly/3wHjFOQ) Follow Green and Red// +G&R Linktree: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast⁠⁠⁠ +Our rad website: ⁠⁠⁠https://greenandredpodcast.org/⁠⁠⁠ +We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.laborradionetwork.org/⁠⁠ + Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/w4Cgpe9G) Support the Green and Red Podcast// +Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/DonateGandR⁠⁠⁠ This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).

Neil Young, Talking Stick Amphitheater, Phoenix, AZ, 4/27/2024RAGGED GLORYMaybe Neil Young isn't as spry as he used to be, but who is? At 78, to be playing hard core rock with the passion he displays isn't only a goddam miracle, it's a revelation.  And, just like young Micah Nelson, who filled in for Nils Lofgren (who's on tour with his other Sensei, Bruce Springsteen) to jam with Crazy Horse stalwarts Billy Talbot on bass and Ralph Molina on drums - demonstrates a generational melding that gives hope to us aging rockers. So, also when my son suggested that he and I fly to Phoenix to catch Neil's latest (I won't say last because who the fuck knows) tour, I gratefully accepted the familial love that was being offered.And, what a show it was! The opening act of Reverend Billy and the Church of the Stop Shopping Choir was a weird, trippy, and funk-fueled way to begin the evening.  But since combining positive energy against Climate Change with tornado-like rock and roll force is Neil's thing, it didn't surprise me that he recruited this legendary street performer to be his emissary. The early spring evening temp in Phoenix was perfect, and Neil was in a generous mood to give this fans what they craved - the golden oldies from Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Zuma, and Rust Never Sleeps - with a short acoustic interlude playing Comes a Time and Heart of Gold (which everybody sang along to). It felt like a fucking campfire. And, looooong kick ass jams, which is what my son was craving. Down by the River and Cortez the Killer were at least 15 minutes each. And, what Neil may have lost in dexterity, he more than makes up for with heart-tugging, sonic crunching lyricism. For my money, he's one of the best rock guitarists who ever slung an axe. There are compensations to getting older; one of which is sharing your heroes with your children, and having them love them along with you. 

The fearful hate retreats in the face of the vision of freedom for all, especially for the people of the global south who have suffered at the hands of White Nationalist Neo-Liberal Capitalism. At the Earthchxrch we welcome the Newest New Yorkers, about a hundred mostly West African young men each day. They join us at 36 Loisaida Ave (Ave C) in the East Village - each weekday from 8 am to 4 pm. On Sundays, some of them join us for our 5 pm 'Earth service,' featuring the heavenly music of the Stop Shopping Choir. We offer a heating system, but the roof leaks a little... There is a partnership (we contribute money) with a local soup kitchen EVlove. English lessons are taught, sometimes by the migrants themselves, as speaking in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Arabic, and various indigenous dialects fill the air of our single room. A strong gift is the newcomers' vision of freedom and independence, urged on by the 22-story woman in the harbor with her torch. We are reminded of our dream, coming to this place.

First segment: A recent spate of budget cuts and faculty firings at Queens College have stoked concerns that a devastating new wave of austerity could sweep across CUNY, the largest urban higher education system in the country. Second Segment: The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is home to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir. But now it's also a welcoming center for hundreds of migrants who have been denied essential city services and part of a broader community mobilization in the East Village to aid desperate migrants. Plus, we also get a Gaza Update from co-host Amba Guerguerian.

The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is home to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir. But now it's also a welcoming center for hundreds of migrants who have been denied essential city services and part of a broader community mobilization in the East Village to aid desperate migrants. We speak with Savitri D., one of the leaders of the Earth Church.

This year, we are the Earth. We're feeling good about the activism we have tried, but the Earth creates our direct action with the radical example of the Evolution of Species. And that is a Hell of Fierce Thing. We will fly over, dig under, camouflage in plain sight. We will grow claws, fins, re-growable tails and distributed intelligence like Octopuses. The government's and corporations cannot find the money to banish us. No militarized border, no fascist hysteria, no passive consumerism can hold back the uprising of the Earth. EARTHALUJAH!   Welcome to this week's Earth Riot, produced by Jason Candler. We offer Savitri D's "News from the Natural World", The Stop Shopping Choir's "Mother Earth's Self-Care" with Sunder Ganglani, and "I am the X in Extinction" with Francisca Benitez. The Earth Manifesto from The Fiery Eagles of Justice and "I am the Ocean" from Neil Young's new album "Before and After". Read about creation of this work in The Times Contrarian, https://m.neilyoungarchives.com/news/1 When in New York, join us in the "Earthchxrch" in the East Village, a converted Capital One bank branch. We hold forth on Sundays at 5pm starting Jan 14th, Earthchxrch, 36 Avenue C at 3rd Street. Directions and Live Stream at Revbilly.com. For inquiries about joining our family of Earth Riot broadcasters, reach out to Travis Baldwin at Spiderback21@gmail.com.  

This week's "Earth Riot Radio" features Hopi sunrise music, Earth Firster Dave Foreman, Earth News with Savitri D, Ojibwe music of Maureen Noodin, jazz from Fiery Eagles of Justice, and songs of the Stop Shopping Choir.  Climate change also changes the passing of time and the ability to remember. Last week's promise by fossil reps to “transition” to safe energy feels a century old. The 6th Extinction is quickly evolving human beings in new directions. At COP28, the 2,500 fossil lobbyists, marketers, and lawyers have experienced pathological amnesia. Environmentalists, on the other hand, report dives into deep wisdom consciousness. Landing back in their hometowns, the activists are out-of-control Earth revolutionaries, singing Earthalujah! in fossil banks. 

….and News from the Natural World with Savitri D and The Sixth Extinction with the Stop Shopping Choir, coming to you directly from the Earthchxrch in New York.  We speak with Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, and her friend, the Conscientious Objector to the Master Narrative - Dr. Alnoor Ladha. "Psychedelic Civil Disobedience" might describe the world-saving mental-emotional reordering that results from experiencing the upcoming 29 minutes. Plus - Common Loons, Wolves and Coyotes and Howling Monkeys are on loan from that extremely radical culture called “The Earth”.  Comments and replies welcome: Revbilly@revbilly.com

This week's show will take you into extinction like the dinosaurs - turn into birds and fly away! Savitri D, John Trudell, Leila Adu, Francisca Benitez, Jason Candler & The Stop Shopping Choir help us mutate right out of this Apocalypse. Fossil fuel power has taken over much of the known world. And the toxins are killing us. The Earth is the activist that teaches us. She knows what she is doing. The prophecy shared widely among the teachers of Earth culture has it that we will survive if we help the Earth prepare for the changes now accelerating all around us. But how do we join up?

Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir come to Joe's Pub on May 7 & 14 at 4pm, JoesPub.com/tickets. It's three blocks from where Jordon Neely was murdered. The buskers, the doowop groups, the jugglers, Mariachi combo and rappers, and the Michael Jackson moon-walkers like Jordon Neely, killed by an ex-marine/son of a cop from Long Island. A light was extinguished, lighting up of the underground canyons of this city. Years ago, Mayor Guiliani shot, jailed or shipped out of town the characters that might be scary to the tourists in Times Square, making way for the Lion King era. But those weirdos will break through the wall of the monoculture with their unsanctioned song and dance, call them the Unknown.

And with this April 16 Sunday, LiveStreamed 3pm New York time, (link at Revbilly.com) we cross into our second year of this experiment. We bring humor and music and a kind of DIY spirituality to our defense of the Earth. Thank you for being with this in this work (and this play). May the Earth's crisis evolve in such a way that we can have a life and in our living share this planet with all life. Earthalujah! Rev Billy, on behalf of Savitri D and the Stop Shopping Choir

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.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine: First Liz Moran of EarthJustice talks with Mark Dunlea about the denied air permit renewal for the Greenridge Generation cryptocurrency mining facility. Then, Reverend Billy talks about his political activism work with the Stop Shopping Choir and Earth Church. After that we get a wrap up of local arts events in the monthly Creative Economy segment with Moses Nagel and Corey Aldrich. Finally, Cathy Silber is joined by Mary Beth Honsinger, president of NAMI Capital Region.

How do performance artists respond to political issues, advocate for social justice, and acknowledge discouraging news? How important is art in the effectiveness of social movements? Sina Basila Hickey reached out to Reverend Billy, a frequenter at the Sanctuary with his Stop Shopping Choir, to talk about his experience in performance art and its advocacy power.

"EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity's most urgent issue - the planet's sixth extinction."In this episode of MetaPod, Wendy talks to radical performance artists Reverend Billy Talen and Savitri D about the EARTH RIOT podcast and their activism. The pair are known in New York City for their art combining performance and protest to raise issues about capitalism, corporate greed, consumerism, the environment and other social issues. Reverend Billy and Savitri D are the founders and fire behind the community of performance artists/activists known as The Church of Stop Shopping, which includes the Stop Shopping Choir. The community is active in New York City and there is also a Stop Shopping Choir based in London.EARTH RIOT with Reverend Billy and Savitri D is a podcast and radio programme that offers an entertaining and imaginative mash-up of environmental news and thought starters delivered with music, song and conviction. As Reverend Billy is fond of proclaiming, "Earthaleujah!"Show notes:The Earth Cancels the Environmental Movement (EARTH RIOT ep. 4)The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertBankTrackVeteran anti-consumerist crusader Reverend Billy takes aim at climate change (NPR, November 26, 2021)

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

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Billy Talen puts on his big hair, a clerical collar, & his brightly-colored blazer, he becomes Rev. Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping, raising spirits & a holy ruckus for the Earth in myriad ways. With creativity, humor, & grim seriousness, Billy, Savitri D, & the other members of the Stop Shopping Choir put their bodies & voices on the line for issues like racism, police brutality, consumerism, Monsanto, Standing Rock or many other things.

Clive Anderson and Annie MacManus are joined by Stephen Fry, Bidisha and Polly Creed for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir and Dal:um.

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Playing for Team Human today, artists, activists, and writers Reverend Billy and Savitri D.Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the origins of the Church of Stop Shopping and the desire to create a tradition of a post-religious American future. Reverend Billy and Savitri walk us through the evolution of the Church of Stop Shopping as a satire into a group that addresses the challenges and needs of their local community. “You have to change the theme of your work because something is happening to the people in your community.” Savitri D says.Rushkoff, Reverend Billy, and Savitri D. examine the current moment and ask, “Who are the current experts that people can turn to in a pandemic?” along with strategies for people to help build resilience. “Rebuilding our memories is a project people need to embark upon.” Reverend Billy says.In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how the ethical dimensions and risks associated with people who have recovered from Covid-19 being able to return to the workforce versus those who are not able to.Learn more about Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir: http://www.revbilly.com/— Support Us —Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.On Patreon: http://patreon.com/teamhumanBecome a Contributing Subscriber: TeamHuman.fmReview the show on Apple Podcasts!— Follow Team Human Show —Twitter: http://twitter.com/teamhumanshowInstagram: http://instagram.com/teamhumanshowMedium: http://medium.com/teamhuman#TeamHumanShow #FindTheOthers— Follow Douglas Rushkoff —Twitter: http://twitter.com/rushkoffMedium: https://medium.com/@rushkoffInstagram: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoffFacebook: https://facebook.com/rushkoff/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushkoff/— Credits —Hosted by Douglas RushkoffProduced by Josh ChapdelaineAudio Edited & Mixed by Luke Robert MasonOur community manager is Michael Bass.Music by Fugazi (On this Episode you heard “Foreman’s Dog” in the intro – thanks to the kindness of the band and Dischord Records.)Special thanks to Stephen Bartolomei, who helps us all build resiliency.Team Human is a Production of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at Queens College. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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

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

A Thanksgiving Sermon from the Reverend Billy of the Stop Shopping Choir; From Nixon to Trump, Impeachment and a Comparison of Their National Security Councils; Can We Have Media That Informs, Not Sells and Manipulates? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Today’s episode is part of our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to share episodes from their Fresh Art International playlists. Born and based in Miami, Eddie Arroyo is a landscape painter who documents residential and commercial structures that urban development will soon erase. He chronicles the loss of a community's cultural, social, and economic fabric. In his photo-based practice, Arroyo hopes to spark conversations about prosperity and accountability within the American social system. He’s a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York. Here, he introduces The Art of Capitalism, a 60-minute segment released in 2018. Arroyo writes: Over the years, Fresh Art International has contributed to Art World discourse through an informative, relevant and challenging podcast. One notable episode, The Art of Capitalism, was posted in August 2018. Right now, in what is being framed as a period of economic prosperity, this episode invites meditation regarding “the free market,” with projects such as the Occupy Museum collective which explores the financial consequences of debt - even going so far as hosting a “Debt Fair.” In London, an artist couple opened their own bank to print money, with plans to blow up a van filled with loan debt as a part of their “Bank Job” series. And there is Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping who preaches the word to his growing congregation and anyone who wishes to join. About The Art of Capitalism: Today, capitalism, also known as “the free market,” is linked to trade wars, massive student debt, entire countries going bankrupt, burgeoning virtual currencies and coded security systems. What does art have to say about our careening global economy? In abandoned bank buildings, failed urban development projects and public squares, we discover artists and their communities in the U.S., Western Europe, South America and Greece, taking on the challenge—as whistle blowers, catalysts, educators, money makers, evangelicals and documentarians. Featured in this episode: Occupy Museums/Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fisher; Fictilis/Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau; Museum des Kapitalismus/Julian and Janosz; Musée du Capitalisme/Samuel Hus and Chloé Villain; La Torre de David/José Luis Blondet, Ángela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarría; Bank Job/Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn; Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Sound: Ángela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarría; Bank Job; Reverend Billy | Contributing Producer: Anamnesis Audio for Reverend Billy Segment Related Episodes: Poetry, Art and Community Justice, The Art of Breaking the Bank, The Art of Capitalism, Where Art Meets Activism, Occupy Museums: Artists and Debt Related Links: Decolonize This Place, Occupy Museums, Museum of Capitalism: Fictilis, Museum des Kapitalismus, Musée du Capitalisme, Bank Job, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, SITE Santa Fe SITElines: Casa tomada  

Art organizations and sponsorship dollars have gone hand in hand for decades. But with backlash and protests over donors ethics, should cultural institutions begin looking into new funding streams? We look at the role of private dollars vs. public good in cultural art institutions. PLUS, A AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: The conversation continues with guest Jonathan H. Marks We discuss his new book “Perils of Partnership.” Music Featured: Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, a radical activist performance community, with “Beatitudes”, from their premiere album “The Shopocalypse.” Guests: L.A. Kauffman, activist and member of Sackler P.A.I.N and Author, HOW TO READ A PROTEST Professor Jonathan H. Marks Director of the Bioethics Program at Penn State University, and affiliate faculty in law and international affairs. And author of a new book “Perils of Partnership” Jess Worth, Activist, co-founder of “BP or not BP”and the Art Not Oil coalitions and currently is the co-director of Culture Unstained. For suggested reading, research and links to our guests and issues featured in this episode, go to: Patreon.com/theLFShow

Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell leverage love and grief to build the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that demands immediate action on climate change.“There is an emotional component to waking up to our social, political, economic, and climate predicaments, and a mix of anger, shock, exhilaration, and fear. Yet properly integrated, they can all serve us as we attempt to muster the collective fortitude to confront these interconnected challenges.Playing for Team Human today are two guests who are practicing state-of-the-art activism that acknowledges and leverages these various emotional components. Douglas is joined by molecular biophysics PhD and economic justice campaigner Gail Bradbrook and #bodypolitic fashion designer turned hunger strike activist, Clare Farrell. They’ve begun a movement centered in London but spreading around the world called Extinction Rebellion. They shut down bridges in London last year and are planning to shut down the whole city of London next week (April 15) until government agrees to engage with them about this global emergency.”Visit https://rebellion.earth/ to join the movement. For more details on the April 15th action hen Extinction Rebellion shuts down London, visit this link: https://extinctionrebellion.org.uk/event/uk-rebellion-shut-down-london/Listeners in the US may also want to jump in and get involved with the Sunrise Movement.Douglas opens today’s show with a monologue looking at the signs that the activist counterculture has claimed victory over mainstream culture. He then questions “gotcha politics” with an argument for embracing the “newly woke” as allies in today’s progressive movement.Check out Douglas’s regular column on Medium, featuring expanded versions of the monologues you hear each week opening the show.Team Human happens each week thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support makes the hours of labor that go into each show possible. You can also help by reviewing the show on iTunes.On this episode you heard Fugazi’s “Foreman’s Dog” in the intro thanks to the kindness of the band and Dischord Records. Mid-show you heard R.U. Sirius’s President Mussolini Makes the Planes Run On Time and Throbbing Gristle’s “Walkabout” (See Team Human Episode 67 with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.) We also played Reverand Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Our Outro features the Mike Watt’s beak-holding-letter-man.Order Team Human the book and manifesto, now available everywhere!A special thanks to Luke Robert Mason who recorded Clare and Gail on site. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! 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.

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! 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. For queries, question or feedback please reach out at revbilly@revbilly.com

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community. Together with partner Savitri D, Rev. Billy has been sharing messages of justice, peace and love for nearly two decades. You may have seen … More ... The post Rev Billy & Savitri D – The Church of Stop Shopping Choir appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

This Week On The Earth Wants YOU! 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

This Week On The Earth Wants YOU! 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.

This Week on The Eart Wants YOU! 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.

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! 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.

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

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! 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.

Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual currencies and coded security systems. What role can art and artists play in this wildly unbalanced economy? In abandoned bank buildings, failed urban development projects and public squares, we discover artists and their communities in the U.S., Western Europe, South America and Greece, taking on the challenge—as whistle blowers, catalysts, educators, money makers, evangelicals and documentarians.   Featured in this episode: Occupy Museums/Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fisher; Fictilis/Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau; Museum des Kapitalismus/Julian and Janosz; Musée du Capitalisme/Samuel Hus and Chloé Villain; La Torre de David/José Luis Blondet, Ángela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarría; Bank Job/Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn; Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Sound: Ángela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarría; Bank Job; Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir; Contributing Producer: Anamnesis Audio for Reverend Billy Segment Related Episodes: Art and the Rising Sea; Art Sparking Social Engagement; Where Art Meets Activism; Art of the Everyday; Occupy Museums on Artists and Debt Related Links: Occupy Museums; Museum of Capitalism: Fictilis; Museum des Kapitalismus; Musée du Capitalisme; Bank Job; Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir; SITE Santa Fe SITElines: Casa tomada

This Week On The Earth Wants YOU! 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.

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 month Reverend Billy takes the Trump Help Hotline to a whole different level. Together with the 'Eagles Of Justice' comes up with an answer as they play, sing and preach it. On another notice, Reverend Billy and the 30 voice Stop Shopping Choir will appear on Tuesday, June 5th at Starr Bar (214 Starr Street near in Brooklyn). Doors open at 7 - the name of the show is "Trump and Evangelicals Go To Hell" - Admission is free and no-one turned away

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! 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 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.

Our advice columnist Reverend Billy on aiding immigrant neighbors targeted by ICE and being sexy, not sexist. Listen till the end to hear a conversation with the Reverend. You can find his article in the March issue of The Indypendent or on our website http://bit.ly/2oQp0Nn To support this podcast and our publication, it´s as easy as visiting our Patreon page and becoming a monthly subscriber. bit.ly/2xsDpRQ Music: Live Performance by the Stop Shopping Choir at Joe's Pub (NYC) on Thursday, November 30th 2017. Photo credit: Melvin Thomas.

Power politics and the politics of power - this time on the show, we talk with New York City's Chief Resilience Officer, Daniel Zarrilli, about the decision to divest from fossil fuels and Clara Vondrich of Divest/Invest, one of the activist groups that helped make it happen. And journalist, Christian Parenti, author of "If We Fail" and "Tropic of Chaos" explains why he thinks we don't demand enough of government, but extreme weather asks that we demand more.  Music featured: “Climate Change Blues” by the Stop Shopping Choir.  Support theLFShow at our website

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. #ISTANDWITHRAVI This week on The Earth Wants YOU! Protest, Tears, Friendship, Hope, No Borders, No Walls, No Deportations

Reverend Billy addresses reader´s concerns during Christmas holidays. The music in this track is a recording of Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir of their song Fabolous Bad Weather: http://bit.ly/2CD8Sqz To support this podcast and our publication, it´s as easy as visiting our Patreon page and becoming a monthly subscriber. bit.ly/2xsDpRQ GOT A QUESTION FOR REVEREND BILLY? REVBILLY@INDYPENDENT.ORG

Reverend Billy addresses reader´s concerns on the momentum of resistance after the Women´s March or having children take a knee during school sports games. The music in this track is a live recording of Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir at Trump Tower. To read Reverend Billy's full article go to http://bit.ly/2jdYiuK To support this podcast and our publication, it´s as easy as visiting our Patreon page and becoming a monthly subscriber. http://bit.ly/2xsDpRQ GOT A QUESTION FOR REVEREND BILLY? REVBILLY@INDYPENDENT.ORG.

I met the Reverend Billy – also known as Bill Talen – at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios in east London near the end of his Trump Depression Hotline Tour across England in October 2017. Based in New York since the 1990s, the Reverend Billy and his secular-political Church of Stop Shopping use public preaching and singing to protest against rampant consumerism, corporate greed, ecological injustice, and Trump. Reverend Billy and I discussed what’s important in using the arts to change the world, including local activism, collaboration, music, and love. The Trump Depression Hotline Tour is directed by Savitri D; the musical director is Nehemiah Luckett. www.revbilly.com

REVEREND BILLY & THE STOP SHOPPING CHOIR: TRUMP DEPRESSION HOTLINE UK TOUR Recorded at Blackfriars, Newcastle upon Tyne 20 October 2017 https://soundcloud.com/revbilly http://www.revbilly.com Hosted by Wunderbar and the amazing Ilana Mitchell http://wunderbar.org.uk

Reverend Billy answers questions about how to handle Nazi’s and leaving the United States in this month’s column. To read Reverend Billy´s full column go to http://bit.ly/2vpntz0 To subscribe to Indy Audio go to http://apple.co/2wwtyh5 Photo: Reverend Billy in The Indypendent´s office. Credit: Elia Gran The choir at the beginning and at the end is the Stop Shopping Choir

Hear sounds from the teach-in we led on May 9 in the Privately-Owned Public Space at Trump Tower, along with New York Communities for Change, 350.org, and Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Being in a POPS, we decided to give a POP(s) quiz on why NYC should divest from banks supporting climate change and harming NYC neighborhoods. For photos and more information, visit: http://www.neweconomynyc.org/letsbereal/

This soul brother is ‘out there’ he is prepared to give it a go for all that he is worth. Upfront and into it, and a courageous willingness to ‘have a go’! Back in the 1990’s Rev Billy noticed a more overt method of marketing products that was being pushed into people’s lives and as a vulnerable consumer it engaged him by appealing to his status and power, good looks and youth – and he was tricked into it. And it kept turning his head. Then somehow with the help of friends and teachers and the fortune of the luck of the draw - he decided to resist!  He was just tired of getting rolled over by the glam and whizz bang of seduction and the dazzle of neon super models when he walked through New York’s Time Square. So out of these circumstances he emerged out of the pavement - as a preacher on the Broadway sidewalks of Time Square. And with help of some cohorts created a theology in which Mickey Mouse was the antiChrist. Then he placed himself in front of the Disney store and began to encourage and exhort people, that if they entered the Disney store and shopped - they would be sinning! You will have to listen to Rev Billy rage against the machine – ‘that they are all sweatshop products’ – and that type of preaching would go on for hours and hours . And he received all sorts of different responses  … and he got better at it. And he got what preachers got … your whoop – yes your whoop! …. And after some months he got his whoop up to speed and that he could preach at a thousand bored listless tourists, drifting like cattle and get them to consider to go into the Disney store - OR NOT.  And this is when Billy’s Ministry began. It began in his own self-defence, but also a willingness to appear foolish and he encourages all his listeners (he laughs) to be foolish and we have to cross-over from that character that we have been ‘conditioned’ to be. The American comedian Steve Martin in the movie “Leap of Faith” came up and Billy said that he was influenced in this role by comediennes, rock and roll and jazz. He would also go to Evangelical and Pentecostal ‘performances’ where there would be grandmothers passing out on the altar and people screaming  - and then he states that many of those churches were right wing in their content. So he turned off the content and just learned how to preach. Listen to Billy, wind up and show how it’s done! Yet Billy did not really want to be a preacher, because he was brought up by abusive right wing Christian parents. However he in the end could not resist, because having the backup of a choir and great music made the message even more compelling. So when he really got good at it – the Church of Stop Shopping had to have a choir – and he found many people who agreed with his contention that consumerism is the devil – starting to sing his lyrics. – He doesn’t really know how it actually happened - he said he was lucky – it was a blessing  - out of the blue – it just became. Surmising that it was partly persistence, stubbornness and the willingness to let go and be foolish. Billy states that we have to be open to the mysterious and the earth telling us in whatever subtle ways we can perceive - that the indigenous peoples have been telling us from day one that consumerism and everything that it entails is not the way forward in our relationship to our great sustainer, our planet. It is not the indigenous people way to just make money and conquer nature. Visiting Standing Rock in North Dakota Listen to Billy tell us what happened up in Standing Rock in North Dakota where he took his Stop Shopping Choir and that so many other indigenous tribes from around our planet had converged in support of the First Nations of North America.  He finds himself with the Aotearoa NZ Maori and in particular their haka - he realised that they had a deep connection to the earth. Listen to here his tell his story. He said all other tribes were singing water related songs that were so very moving – that he and his Choir started crying. He mentioned that the songs seemed to have Beethoven’s 9th beat  - that he felt his life changing … And right next to him and the Savitri D  were 15 Maori who when they dropped into their karakia (prayer) followed by a haka ‘it scared the hell out of Billy and his group”  … that knowing about other first peoples from around the world makes a huge difference to how he saw life. That Rivers are becoming recognised as entities He then mentions the Whanganui River  ( awa) as having recently been given living status and classified as an entity. This he said was wonderful and that other countries like India are following suit.    http://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights He sees that the reengaging with this knowingness, that the Whanganui river is an entity – shows that the global neo-liberal economy has a limit. That this emergence of such an event means that indigenous cultures can now take the higher ground in seeing that the earth is both living and sacred. See India recently passing legislation as well as what has been happening in Bolivia and Ecuador etc. Billy sees this as an earth-aluya moment in our history -this is what we are waiting for  … Billy states that he is very grateful for the leadership that has come his way. (It takes huge courage, especially in the USA).  He is grateful that the indigenous – earth peoples have survived the extraction and murderous ways plus the diseases of our European culture. To still be here as carers of the earth – that which lends us bodies in which to live, plus free air, water and until recently a free food chain. We need to drop the old story of conquest and empire and consumers consuming our planet and allow the old stories of pre ‘city-state’ culture, to come in. That the word natural needs to been seen as far more sustainable than cultural and allow the earth to re-enter our consciousness. Being mindful in one’s actions Both Billy and Savitri D his dearly loved wife are very mindful and respectful of the lives of humanity and are very caring of how they language their connection both to people and our planet as a whole. He intuits that the uprising on earth today is more than a message to him it is an instruction – that the earth is giving a signal to join her – in this uprising … Covering Then present situation in America and what leadership is required. We have to come back to the living earth. I then interview for 25 minutes, Savitri D - Billy’s wife and leader of the ‘Stop Shopping Choir’ The Church of Stop Shopping is a radical performance community of about 50 people. Who are united around their values … And recently they have been going inside banks to show their resistance as consumer activists. For example they even travelled to North Dakota to the Standing Rock - access pipeline. In super of the First Nation peoples. Their strength is their creativity and communal energy which focuses on political activism, being radical earth activists with heart and soul. Being earth oriented they look at natural systems for clues  - such as a healthy bio-system is diverse. They look for resilience in their human community as much as they do in their physical landscape – some would say a permaculture view – a very broad view of integrated designs of things. Yet a lot of their work involves standing on police lines protesting … and doing it with song and hilarious preaching plus ferocious preaching too.  Disrupting the normal tone of protest – adding clever and artistic props that they make themselves. Plus, over the last 15 to 20 years they have developed a broad vocabulary to add to their protest and resistance – using every different strategy they can imagine. One continuous strategy is focus on climate change and to keep it in the public consciousness all the time. This with keeping fossil fuels in the ground, trees deeply rooted and animals healthy … to reduce human chauvinism in its industrial effort to extract the last of earth’s gifts out of her. Is what they are here to protect. Savitri says she and her troupe are wild people who live in the city – being the human wilderness of New York city. And New York is the entry point of the USA and the road is unknown – but people show up as they find a way to divine a way to survive and make a new life for themselves.  As an artist it is very exciting but for an ordinary person too, just wishing to become financial stable. Cultural creatives hare challenged to come together. As the arts now are becoming very commodified and institutionalised – and it is difficult for an artist to be political – as sponsorship option evaporates instantly – and has always been that way. People in NY are in a hurry – but they are open … Some of the protests were: Singing about Monsanto and honey bees, neonicotinoids and pesticides, plus being pollinators where they dressed as honey bees – and the fact the the Stop Shopping Choir is so diverse that there are always creative input to their shows. BP comes up for some attention … Marktown East of Chicago – is supposedly a cancer cluster area – so they went and sung to the people of that area – about capitalism and the extraction the fossil fuel industry – and these people are going through hard times so ‘the choir’ has to communicate with them in a gentle and respectful way – without undermining the value of what they have put into their own life – albeit working for a corporation that is basically only profit motivated. That though in a hostile territory the payback was that they were very well received as they both educated and healed these workers by showing that they cared. What are we to do? Start sharing deep story with each other – being caring and insightful – be open to change and don’t get sucked in by mainstream media – it is not productive at all. What will make people more active and engaged? Community holds us up and supports us – community is powerful and capable of profound things – someone gets tired. But there is always someone having an up day and they come in alongside you and lift you up. Tend to your garden and nourish all your relationships. Gather together to work with you affinity groups = people you know and trust and build strong cohesive relationships. It’s a long game and the challenges are not going to go away tomorrow. Yet Billy states that in the USA things have never been darker yet things have never been brighter … yet we need Noble courage to stand up! The present president is showing to the public face that the macho fundamentalism is bulldozing and extracting every last drop of what the earth can supply. What was interesting was that Bernie Sanders presidential bid was largely an Occupy Wall St platform. http://www.revbilly.com

everend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities on four continents defending community, life and imagination. Over the last 15 years of their "church," they describe the Devils that plague us as Consumerism and Militarism. In this time of the Earth's crisis - they are especially mindful of the extractive imperatives of global capital. Their activist performance and concert stage performance have always worked in parallel. The activism is content for the play. They have won an OBIE Award, the Alpert Award, The Dramalogue Award and The Historic Districts Council's Preservation Award (for leading demonstrations to save Manhattan's Poe House), and half of their singing activists have been jailed, most frequently during Occupy Wall Street. Reverend Billy has been arrested about 70 times. Reverend Billy and the SSC employ multiple strategies, including cash register exorcisms, retail interventions, and cell phone operas. Outdoors, they have performed in Redwood forests, between cars in traffic jams at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, on the Staten Island Ferry, at Burning Man and Times Square and Coney Island, and on the roof of Carnegie Hall in a snowstorm. The Stop Shopping Choir is a diverse array of economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds and has members from every continent except Antarctica, which they're working on. Among them are scientists, teachers, artists, therapists, welders, cyclists, builders, developers, hairdressers, dog walkers, actors, truck drivers, tech geeks, scholars and executives. The Choir has toured in Europe, Africa, South America and throughout North America. Here we discuss what drives the Reverend's tireless activism, the development of his persona and voice, and what it means to be an earth evangelist.

Rabbi Rami talks to Reverend Billy, aka Billy Talen, about his activist background, how reducing consumption is a spiritual act, and his new album The Earth Wants You. A review of his album can be found in the July/August issue of Spirituality & Health. Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen) is a New York City based activist, performer and author who has spent the better part of 21st century preaching on the evils of consumerism and the crisis of The Earth. Reverend Billy developed his outrageous character preaching on the streets of Times Square, and has since become an international activist figure. He and The Stop Shopping Choir, a radical performance community of singing New Yorkers, stage non-violent creative actions around the world. Find out more about Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir at www.revbilly.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Rami talks to Reverend Billy, aka Billy Talen, about his activist background, how reducing consumption is a spiritual act, and his new album The Earth Wants You. A review of his album can be found in the July/August issue of Spirituality & Health. Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen) is a New York City based activist, performer and author who has spent the better part of 21st century preaching on the evils of consumerism and the crisis of The Earth. Reverend Billy developed his outrageous character preaching on the streets of Times Square, and has since become an international activist figure. He and The Stop Shopping Choir, a radical performance community of singing New Yorkers, stage non-violent creative actions around the world. Find out more about Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir at www.revbilly.com

William Talen is an activist, author and stage performer. As Reverend Billy, he pursues these parallel careers with the 35-voice Stop Shopping Choir under the direction of Savitri D. Talen and company lead a movement of nonviolent dramatic action, belting out their freedom-fighting lyrics on tour with Neil Young in 2015, in JP Morgan Chase bank lobbies, Wal-marts and at Monsanto’s corporate properties. Reverend Billy has been arrested more than 50 times advocating for Earth Rights and Human Rights. Talen's new book and the group's new album, both titled The Earth Wants YOU!, will released in April, 2016.

Listen in as ArtsCultureBeat talks with spitfire actor, writer, and producer Reverend Billy Talen of Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir and Choir member and activist Dragonfly (aka Miss Justice Jester). For nearly two decades, performance artist Reverend Billy has staged protests in the style of Evangelical sermons passionately agitating against wide-ranging sins such environmental exploitation, commercialism, and police brutality. He's been an NYC mayoral candidate, the subject of the documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?," and he's been arrested more than 70 times, most recently at a Black Lives Matter protest at Grand Central Terminal. He's joined by Dragonfly , longtime Choir member and activist, a leader in the Ferguson protests. Her hug of a Ferguson riot cop in front of the police station, which was a mutual hug, was seen by many millions, picked up by AP, "New Yorker." Now, just before the launch of Reverend Billy's “Faster, Monsanto! Die! Die!” world tour, Reverned Billy and Dragonfly talk to ArtsCultureBeat’s Vanessa Quirk and Yashica Dutt about activism, acting, and the blurry line between playing and becoming a character. 

Listen in as ArtsCultureBeat talks with spitfire actor, writer, and producer Reverend Billy Talen of Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir and Choir member and activist Dragonfly (aka Miss Justice Jester). For nearly two decades, performance artist Reverend Billy has staged protests in the style of Evangelical sermons passionately agitating against wide-ranging sins such environmental exploitation, commercialism, and police brutality. He's been an NYC mayoral candidate, the subject of the documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?," and he's been arrested more than 70 times, most recently at a Black Lives Matter protest at Grand Central Terminal. He's joined by Dragonfly , longtime Choir member and activist, a leader in the Ferguson protests. Her hug of a Ferguson riot cop in front of the police station, which was a mutual hug, was seen by many millions, picked up by AP, "New Yorker." Now, just before the launch of Reverend Billy's “Faster, Monsanto! Die! Die!” world tour, Reverned Billy and Dragonfly talk to ArtsCultureBeat’s Vanessa Quirk and Yashica Dutt about activism, acting, and the blurry line between playing and becoming a character.