We have an amazing Fall - London to COP26 Earth Riot Tour with the Stop Shopping Choirs! of New York and London. Yes, we are happy to say there is a London choir now, 12 beautiful singing activists rehearsing every week! Together we'll be singing to gardeners, farmers, unions, essential workers and fellow activists. After the climate conference we return to NYC for the 20th anniversary of our Earth church at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. We have a whole new body of songs, born of Covid and the Earth, full of the Community and our shared experience.
Activism is in a strange place. How do you deal with the domination of the police and the courts? The sleep of Covid and Consumerism. The Fairy Creek old growth forest defenders in BC are at a thousand arrests. The Line 3 indigenous water protectors in Minnesota - pushing 700 in the courts now. Here in NYC the City is about to destroy 1000 mature trees in the name of resilience....what? The criminalizing of dissent is the twin demon of voter suppression.
The Earth, meanwhile, has blown by us all. The wind and waves and virus, the fire and red California midday sun. The oil companies are racing ahead and the Earth is on fire. As we watch the slow horror, suddenly we get the news that the organizers of COP26 have fired the corporations, because their net-zero claims - the numbers don't add up. Officially the oil-producers have no role in Glasgow... So let's make it real, lets stand in the back channels and fill up the windows.
Rev & Savitri
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