Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM Eastern. Savitri has created three new songs, in this time of our activist family's confrontation of JPMorgan Chase, the pollutingest bank in the US. We go to Chase's new $4billion headquarters on Park…

12/9/25 Listen To The Podcast Scientists Say that We Are At Least 2/3's Invisible They call 70% of our body - dark matter and dark energy. The experts talk about this part of us the way they talk about outer…

We wake up with direct questions. What can I do today? Who should I talk to? What do I need to know. We find ourselves in song, and direct relationship with meaning - and the most reliable meaning comes from…

Rev exorcises demons from union-busting Toronto grocery. Photographer unknown. In the sadness, anger and more sadness... and with the feeling that we are haunted by history, I reach out to our friends in Earthalujahville. Hi... Allen Ginsberg called the Israelis…

These days everything we do seems to be a conspiracy. Memories are designed for effect. Even children are babbling saturation advertising. Liars concentrate bitterly on truth. Women want control of their bodies. The Earth controls the sky and the sea.…

September 8, 7PM TRAILER At this point in our lives we are shouting or whispering the phrase "Earthalujah" really - all day long. At the end of this 22 minute film "Earth Riot", a recounting of the UK tour with…

When 80 year old trees are murdered and paved over and then police stand where the trees stood. We come looking for rituals of memory in our old park. We climbed and hugged the trees after they were sentenced to…

Photo by Francisca Benítez Defending a London Plane Tree I was in the Earthchxrch when I got the call from a very upset Savitri - they were cutting the trees. I got there in a half hour, ran past the…

Tortuguita Imagination Courage THELIVINGFOREST. Death Sex Mutation 6THEXTINCTION. Sky Unity Singing JUSTICE. Yes, review life again and again, around & around led by the women. Because why are we passive in the face of the interruption of life by fossil…

This is the climactic 20 minutes of the Earth Church's service on the 22nd of January, at their home in New York's East Village. Reverend Billy's sermon is "The Earth is Screaming" and the songs by the Stop Shopping Choir…

We can joke and cry about it, and find the usual climate criminals in it, but the suffering is the thing.  Our prayers and thoughts are with our friends and loved ones in California.  The Himalayan mountains are melting and…

Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila...   My attempt to translate the Earth's language is guided by these special teachers.  First, I try…

Welcome to these eight songs - Change Without Us. The gift of our current mass extinction is the Earth’s presentation of life.  Life is offered to us in our months and days and moments.  Life takes the form it always…

No matter how bad the floods and diseases and storms get, most of us here in consumerized America keep basking in gradualism. It isn't really happening...not yet.   Oh yes it is.  It IS happening.  The Webb telescope images didn't show us…

Activism nowadays in the United States comes in huge battles, always surrounded by legions of cops. Black Lives Matter, #metoo, Standing Rock, Abortion Rights. The Times only writes about protests they can see from their windows on Times Square. Local…

A Real Dream I have my own dreams, real dreams, but after I wake up and go down the steps to the front door, I am engulfed in simulated dreams and I lose my real dreams in the copies. I…

The Amazon Unionizing and Defending the Earth "Bees Dance Maps and Plants Eat Light." I read those wonderful words somewhere.  But what do we do?  What should activists do?  Yes of course we want to protect the earth, but protecting our fellow…

Three Sides To This War: Ukraine, Russia and the Earth Animals and plants don’t get a lot of copy when the war reporters address the cameras with their stern faces. The only bit of nature that we can see in…

Big Oil Stopped by Radical Happiness The machines that put carbon, methane and nitrous oxide into the air are dismantled by the special power of goodness! The people who set up the COP climate conference bring oil billionaires and their…

Monster Movie: The 6th Extinction vs. Silicon Valley In my lifetime I’ve never experienced such a show-down.  It is the grand finale war of the gods, more terrifying than the Marvel comix of the Bible, the Book of Revelations. This is…

From Reverend Billy I jaywalked across Brooklyn Avenue, one of the famous Avenues of Death where bicyclists and pedestrians perish, and I was quickly trapped in a flood of metal on a little island halfway across, with a patch of…

The city is hollowed out by police and AI and luxury towers. If we have a dream of marching for the survival of the Earth, than we force outselves into a milaritized space, where men with guns surround us and…

AI and Earth-defending Action The distance between our realization and actualization - has changed and it is a tragic dangerous thing that you and I share. Realizing can come in many forms. With the environmental movement - the realization was…

AI and Earth-defending Action The distance between our realization and actualization - has changed and it is a tragic dangerous thing that you and I share. Realizing can come in many forms. With the environmental movement - the realization was…

In the Earth Chxrch we keep noticing that right now - the average person has knocked into the weeds. The forces on a planetary scale - corporations, satellites and drones, fundamentalist religions - such large institutions are operating at full…

I try to write in the morning. I am always starting from the same place. I am inside a house with my partner and daughter sleeping. Inside a house on a street that in one block has as many sleepers…

Following on Zohran Mamdani, we are thrilled at the wave of progressive grass roots wins in the current election. Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez and Brad Lander won congressional primaries in the face of vigorous opposition from establishment Democrats.…

When did we start seeing things this way? At some point, the unchallenged feature of our lives was that we could add it up, in numbers, pixels, dollars…. Anything that was the least bit unknowable, that has characteristics that had…

By Phil Baker - NYA Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope’s manifesto on “safeguarding the human person in the…

At the marble-pillared door to New York's Puck building owned by Jared Kushner, housing the Open AI company. Sixty of us, shouting at security guards on the steps with tech bros sneaking in and out, smiling guiltily… “We don’t want…

By Jake Offenhartz Fresh from opening shows for Neil Young, the street preacher Billy Talen has moved on from burning Mickey Mouse in effigy to protesting JPMorgan Chase’s ties to fossil fuels. A little after midnight on Earth Day, the…

The month of March 2026 - average USA temp NINE DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE??? People don't know. It's not getting past the weather channel. In Washington there's a big conference of rightwing folks celebrating the death of the EPA at the…

Up early, trying to wrap my head around the Earth Day on the 22nd and the Earth Week that surrounds it. My soul is telling me to set up on the sidewalk outside Chase Bank and preach there for hours,…

The Northern Coyotes and Barred Owls and Black-Backed Gulls in Central Park are singing in the New York night at the same time. The wind that came over the Hudson River is strumming the branches of the old London Plane…

The nation states are helplessly flailing at Trump and Netanyahu and their crowd of applauding billionaires but let's remember how the beginning of a war pulls us into a story that is thrilling and ancient and addictive. We need to…

Neil Young argues with companies. President Trump is one of them, of course, easy target, and now Bezos. Spotify off and on. That doesn’t go with “Heart of Gold,” does it? So you think the search for a lover is…

The rich say no to oil. The middle class says no to dreams of the rich. The stolen and sold say no to rich consumers who start to see. The whites say no to ICE and the people of the…

And then came the moment that we all had the same thought at the same time. One single pure thought. There was no original stroke of genius that started with Einstein sipping a cup of espresso - which then swept…

Because the rest of my life is flying by yours the lives of our bodies shade through the doors Because you walk by me and I walk by you everyone we’ve ever loved is walking by too Because the air…

Here's a new theory developed at the Church of Stop Shopping School of Divinity: There is a direct relationship between each additional minute that we are separated and every pound of greenhouse gas that is added to the air. What?…

There was Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, #metoo and Black Lives Matter. Protest is how our freedom grows and when it happens it is precious; when it happens, you gotta drop what you are doing and hit the streets. The…

Public culture is at this moment, virtual. The politicians, celebrities, talking heads, the people with the international microphones… most of them seem helplessly not actual. When they open their mouths a language comes out that seems programmed at some point…

By Oliver Wainwright It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this $4bn colossus is just the first of a new breed…

The Mamdani campaign’s volunteers knocked on the doors of New York City voters 1.6 million times, which led to 247,000 conversations. The campaign re-discovered the old magic of a good heartfelt talk. “Hello, how are you today?” might seem like an…

The big retail banks are now readying the AI-powered teller window.  We will be talking to robots at the screen in bank lobbies, as we deposit or withdraw cash, adjust loans, etc.  The lobbies on the street, which are open…

We will exercise with abandon our freedom of expression, freedom to trust strangers, freedom to experience our bodies, to love as we wish, free from White Christian Nationalist violence, freedom from algorithms, freedom from billionaires and freedom to tax billionaires…

Find the Earth in each other. see the Earth in the stranger touch the Earth in our lover... When fire and flood take us,  storms a thousand miles wide.   We look deeply in all the eyes, There's something we missed.…

Earthman around the Sunwoman not once, not twice, 80 circles around the fire, spinning with music all the way, crowds of us circling by you we listen and wave and cheer and you tell us to Love each other be…

Everything happens at once too much going on so fast and so violent we can’t respond.  White House explodes helicopters drop on Chicago children screaming in pajamas fishing boats on the sea facing aircraft carriers. Prices. Tariffs.  Black leaders fired.…

Unbelievable indeed.  For those of us who fight the totalitarian consumer culture that dominates Americans - Saturday the 18th of October 2025 - we are in a state of happy shock.  Seven million people “breaking into public space” — with…

There are two tremendous releases of energy, two rivers carving out hills and crashing into cities.  One, is the Peace movement for Palestine, pouring through the streets in many nations, screaming GENOCIDE! into the world’s language.  And then there are…

Our work is against those who spray the air, water and soil with poisons, poisons for profit.  And lots of people are working hard against the same poisoners, and at this point, in late 2025, we are losing the fight…

reflections after opening for Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, the ‘love earth tour’ with Daryl Hannah presiding After our go at the Hollywood Bowl, we gazed out at the empty seats, with the 18,000 who sat there now back…

Imagine a nation of people suffering from a low-grade hypnosis, or maybe a selective amnesia is the right phrase. And then through this dulled population a group of 60 people are on a tour, going from city to city, where…

The fans along the trail of the “love earth tour” - and the whole experience of traveling with Neil Young and Daryl Hannah's caravan of friends - are raising up new beliefs. You can imagine these big crowds having a…

Can we be voices crying in the wilderness FOR the wilderness. There was Christianity; there was Feudalism; there was Marxism; there was Capitalism, and now there is Earth. Make no doubt. The planet’s heatwave is revolutionary. It has content that…

Charlotte kicks off the North American leg of Neil Young’s “love earth tour.” I’m sitting in a bus that contains the opening act, the Stop Shopping Choir. They are 7 singers and musicians from different eras of our earthchxrch’s 20…

Here is the riddle of our time: “Why do we refuse to save ourselves from the burning of fossil fuels?” I believe I have found a clue. In the trains we ride there are advertisements, the smiling faces of sexually…

This is a good moment in history to accept that the Earth is alive. Powerful men like to think that they are making history But lately their big moves are identical repeats of worn-out wars Which gives us the feeling…

We have an emergency in England - need to do the right thing. The Tories started marching Earth defenders and war protesters off into jail without a jury trial, abou 173 Earth and Peace lovers banished to prisons up to…

The Earth is Coming! The Earth is Coming! The Earth is Coming! And when the Earth arrives it will turn our culture upside down and inside out. Each of us knows this. We are quietly waiting. Or maybe busily waiting.…

Reverend Billy Ask the Tree of Knowledge for forgiveness Thank the snake for the apple, the snake's nice... Here's a good dream, fake out the nightmare The bad gods and AI, coca cola and ICE. The Earth says bite the…

By Catrin Einhorn, Photographs and Video by A.J. Mast The solar panels on the churches were inspired by Scripture. So were the LED lights throughout the buildings, the electric-vehicle charging stations, the native pollinator gardens and organic food plots, the…

The Earth Human Moment. Is the doorway open one last time? We can do this. We can be humans returning to our eco-systems. Trump shows capitalism for what it always was. White nationalism never stopped — it was always right…

By Lise Pedersen Imagine a world devoid of advertisement, a world where human beings are not reduced to consumers, their desires and behavior dictated by an economic system driven by consumer capitalism. That’s the proposition of “You Need This,” by…

This is a song for hypnotizing the live audience, it casts a spell. Not so much for devices. One person said "I felt like I was on acid".... The two soloists are Love Earthers - they were with us on…

Beautiful Earth What kind of beauty are we talking about? Not just watching…. Touching sensing being together colliding loving Touch the person next to you! Touch the person next to you! Say this: You are the Earth! I am the…

We are in a state of shock. Our compassion is being cancelled. During the election we were watching the candidates ignore the families of Gaza, and after the election people throughout the world that we were helping are suddenly abandoned…

By Nikki McCann Ramirez The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute. In a statement released Wednesday,…

By Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias Millions of Christians in churches around the world heard the same passage on Sunday from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus declares his intentions “to proclaim good news to the poor,” as he…

Neil gave the 2024 tour with Crazy Horse the title "Love Earth", and future tours may also carry the name.  He and Daryl are addressing the great emergency of our day with the power of music and film.  This page will gather…

Nine Songs for the Earth.  Five of the songs in this album, grew forceful from our singing them opening for Neil and the Horse in the Love Earth tour this last Spring.  The urgency in the message lifts the voices. …

There is tension in the air. Protesters are gathering from far and wide, while the national leaders and their corporate keepers come to the UN next week. We are in the opening hours of “Climate Week” in New York City.…

The hottest July on record is almost over and we know there will be another hottest July on record soon. In March 2022 we moved into the old bank at 36 Loisaida and started performing every week. We took a…

Rev at the Earthchxrch Sunday July 9th, 3pm EST 36 Loisaida Ave C at East 3rd Street, East Village NYC A week ago I hugged the tree that was here, while the chainsaw ppl waited for the police to peel…

Radio from the Earthchxrch, Reverend Billy and Savitri D Two things are happening at once.  The language of human culture adds up to a message of agonized hesitation.  On the other hand, the language of the Earth is powerfully clear. …

Dear Rev, I’m bored, Rev - adrift on my computer. News? COMPLETELY repetitious. Corruption in high places? well - surprise surprise. So I try to call friends but even the ones I could count on for a good laugh are…

Yes, the major rock opera now opening everywhere is the Sixth Extinction. Burning cities, snowdrifts in NOLA, and floods in the Blue Ridge…. and 30 months of record global heat. Its here. The Sixth Extinction is here. But we gotta…

Something strange happens when we call a hurricane or a typhoon by name. Lately we’ve had Beryl and Otis and Helene and Milton. It seems arbitrary that the snow in New Orleans and the fire in Los Angeles go nameless.…

Something is broken in the relationship between Hurricane Helene and the humans. Something is definitely fatally broken between the Los Angeles fires and you and me. And how couldn’t we get the message? How could we not see? Background: The…

EARTH BURNS LOS ANGELES! Why would we never see this headline? The Earth is left out of our reporting of the apocalyptic fires in the city of angels. The headlines scream “Wind whips…” or “Fire spreads…” as if the disaster…

If a tornado is on the edge of town, what you want to do is walk toward the music in it. Each disaster is like a body - there’s a heartbeat in there. It might be more like reggae or…

We wait on the edge of a great block of time, and we peer into next year unable to focus our eyes. We listen for the sound of wind. Instead of holding phones, we hold hands. We feel like a…

My eco-system asked me to change, again and again. It never let up. I would wake up from a deep sleep and I knew I had to change completely. My career, my idea of who my friends were, my idea…

Thanks for what? This year the old quaint holiday seems impossible. We are lost in wars, the human tragedy comes in waves of violence, superstorms from humans and from nature. We have our meal with loved ones, but… we are…

The only way back to a normal life is Thru radical change. The only way back to radical change is Thru justice for all people, and Justice for all living things. One of those living things is all of life…

Our Fabulous Unknown of eight performances across England came to its finale yesterday in Birmingham on October 27th. About a dozen singers and musicians from the Stop Shopping Choir held forth in Hastings, Brighton, Canterbury, Colchester, Cambridge, London three times…

Writing in my journal from Brighton, UK, a grand version of Coney Island. The ocean in the window, choir groggily awake now.  Last night in Hastings we had an ecstatic chxrch show with the Stop Shopping Choir; got the Standing O... but…

Debra White Plume’s words feel true. She was a Lakota Sioux teacher. I heard a woman at Occupy Wall Street tell this scary little story standing on a bench corner speakers-corner style. In this prophecy, Debra White Plume urges us…

And so we struggle out of the mudslides of North Carolina looking for something, and we spin out of the tornadoes of Iowa and look for something that we desperately need. We are covered with ashes as we climb out…

Governments, corporations, militaries: these super-groups are not people. Their power is based on violent separation from life, domination from afar. They consistently put poisons into the Earth.And who defends the Earth? Individual souls and small groups like families where love…

July ’24 the hottest month since the birth of Christ? Advertising departments are trying to re-purpose the slow, huge disaster by slotting the outlandish heat as a 3rd world phenomenon, or the result of foreign religions, or even as science…

What kind of people would we be, if we were so powerful that we successfully defended the Earth? It happens once in a while in history. Some of us are THAT possessed. Call it "Justice Possessed". Black Lives Matter, ACT…

We're at a turning point for the wandering souls that come into New York, 200k in 15 months. We have had young African men in our 60 by 50 ft Earthchxrch all week, wall to wall men sleeping laying their…

This week we let fly one of our 29 minute radio shows. Earth Riot Radio is a fast-moving semi-trippy plunge into the fiery stink of the Apocalypse. This week we offer - along with the voices of Loons and Jackals…

Two more Sundays in our Earthchxrch and then on the night of Sunday Nov 26th we're lifted into the lights and our audience of radicals are below us somewhere in the dark with their drinks. That's a big change for…

Everything is so violent just now, it’s hard to think.  The sorrow and helplessness just takes over.  But as our thoughts emerge from the shadows, they are clear and radical.  The struggle for Peace is one with the struggle for…

We are IN it now. The smokiest day is not two Wednesdays back, or today either. We are IN it. It is not “unprecedented,” not “…since records were kept.” No! There is no precedent. We live in the constant no-precedent-ever…

RevBilly & StopShopping Choir at the EarthChxrch Featuring the Sainthood of Malachy McCourt Sunday, April 16 // 3PM // 36 Ave C @ East 3rd, NYC Malachy McCourt 1st Year Anniversary Reflections from Billy The experiment gave us tools that…