Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYC

The Sun Is A Star That Keeps Me Warm

This Turning World
lyrics Bill Talen
music Nehemiah Luckett
mixed and recorded by Juno Black

This Turning World

Performed by Reverend Billy and the Not Buying It Band

Got To Be Impossible

09 - Suns Fire

07 - The Now Bird

06 - Fabulous Unknown

05 - I Go To The Mountain

04 - Where Do I Go

03 - Not The Only One

02 - Machines

01 - Because

These are songs from the covid years, created by for and with the Stop Shopping Choir all over New York City

08 Vastness

07 Thrill To It

06 Love With Extinction

05 The Storm

04 Swimming

03 Beautiful Earth

02 Change Without Us

01 Great Outdoors

Children: hurricanes swamp our coasts! Fracking poisons our drinking water! Mountain tops are bulldozed into streams! The end of the world is nigh!

In pages that crackle with the lightning of an electric storm, the Reverend Billy, messianic leader of the Church of Stop Shopping, thunders from his pulpit, sounding the tocsin on the toxins that are poisoning our planet.

The Mayan calendar points to the final apocalypse descending on us in December 2012. Evangelicals have been raising hell about the coming Rapture since the death of their Christ.

But the good Reverend's eschatology is less scriptural. Rather it is rooted in the environmental disasters that rampant capitalism and couldn't-care-less governments are visiting on our world.

As the fish and forests perish, our future here on earth looks bleaker than ever. But, our Reverend insists in a sequence of surreally imagined sermons, we cannot be passive congregants in the face of our own demise.

Rather, with soaring parables from protests as far apart as the bank lobbies of Barcelona and the underground police cells of New York City, our preacher raises a resounding "Earthallujah!", turning back the devils of debt and destruction, rallying those of radical faith to save themselves and save us all.

Global Loneliness

Happy Ending

Apocalypse By Tornado

The End Of Birth

Earth Manifesto

Recorded at Joe's Pub in New York City in November 2014.

Get Home Safe

Revolution

Flying

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!
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https://lawanddisorder.org

Ankle Monitors, Goodbye Patriarchy and How Charlie Parker the Parrot Survived 9/11

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.
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Saheed Vassell, NYC Shut It Down, Stop Swallowing Plastic

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.

Reverend Billy Visits Maralago, Savitri visits La Zad

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.

Ireland Repeals The 8th Amendment, Save Union Square

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

Ashley Brockington Teaches Us To Forgive

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU!

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.

Sarah Shulman says Act UP, Notes From Athens

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU!

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.

California Fires, Orcas In Pain, Trump Depression Hotline

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU!

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.

Remembering 9/11, Mike Roselle And A March Against Gentrification

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU!

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

#METOO WE LISTEN TO WOMEN'S TESTIMONIES

This Week On The Earth Wants YOU!

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

Space Hijackers, Fascists In Brazil, Amazon Rainforests

This Week On The Earth Wants YOU!

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.

Black Lives Matter, Farmers Protest Powerplants

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

Widening Gyre

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! contact: revbilly@revbilly.com

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