Please join regional climate and indigenous activists of the Water Protector Anti-Repression Crew, RADAR, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) for The Frontline Is Everywhere Workshop, from 5 to 8 pm on Thursday, April 27, at the East Bonner County Library, 1407 Cedar Street in Sandpoint, Idaho.  From pipelines and other fossil fuel invasions to courtrooms and prisons, we plan to discuss how to build strong movement defenses, resist grand juries, and expand anti-repression efforts, by learning from experiences of participants in the Standing Rock and allied camps opposing the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL).

This spring, NoDAPL water protectors and legal team members are facilitating trainings across Turtle Island (North America), sharing knowledge about resistance to the grand jury convened against water protectors at Standing Rock, and about building network capacities for defense against this instance and other cases and forms of state repression.

As extractive industries and governments escalate their repressive tactics against activists who stand in resistance, this two-hour workshop provides valuable information for everyone who struggles for indigenous sovereignty, Earth liberation, and a future without oppression.  It is open to all who have participated in the movement at Standing Rock, who have supported its on-the-ground efforts from their homes and territories elsewhere, and who fight on the many frontlines that constantly emerge across the continent.

Active resistance to DAPL has not ended at Standing Rock, as nearly 800 water protectors persevere with battles in courtrooms, some facing federal felony indictments that carry potential, 15-year, federal prison sentences.  The grand jury targeting water protectors – and resistance to it – continue.

Vibrant movements and interdependent relationships make activists and communities resilient to attempts to shut down struggles against oppression.  Join us in talking about ways to together strengthen our movements!  For further information or to print and post a PDF version of the tabloid-sized, color The Frontline Is Everywhere Workshop Flyer (with artwork by Jackie Fawn Illustrations), please contact WIRT and/or visit the website and facebook pages of the Water Protector Anti-Repression Crew and WIRT (at the enclosed links). Continue reading →

Regional, grassroots, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and allied activists are excited to participate in several education and outreach events this week. During four days of “tabling,” WIRT interactive displays will feature a poster with photos, protest signs, printed materials, and possibly slide shows of WIRT actions and programs, all demonstrating the Northwest fossil fuels causes of climate change and diverse, frontline community-organized solutions and resistance.  We will distribute group brochures and event flyers about WIRT campaigns challenging the corporate and government sources of coal and oil trains and terminals, tar sands mining and refining megaloads, and oil and gas production and transportation in Idaho.  Besides requesting involvement in upcoming WIRT and allied educational events and direct action trainings and demonstrations, we will likely also offer free, packaged, chocolate and/or fruit-flavored, bargain-priced Easter candy.  If you can assist our efforts as a tabling volunteer and comrade recruiter at these informative and inspiring, community-building opportunities, please RSVP to WIRT in advance, via phone, email, or facebook or text message, or drop by the WIRT Sandpoint office or event booths.

April 19: Bike Fix and Sustainability Showcase

Wednesday 11 am to 2 pm, Idaho Commons Plaza, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

As part of Earth Fest 2017, the University of Idaho Sustainability Center welcomes students and everyone to visit and talk with local organizations, learn about sustainability, climate change, and Vandal cycling opportunities, and get a free bike tune-up from Moscow mechanics, to assist bike riding instead of vehicle driving.

April 21: Earth Week Fair

Friday 11 am to 2 pm, Terrell Mall, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

The Associated Students of Washington State University Environmental Sustainability Alliance cordially invites the campus community and public to join them in encouraging environmental awareness and stewardship, at their annual educational and fun event with a live band and many attendees. Event organizers are bringing together various sustainability-minded groups and individuals working on similar causes, to meet and network with interested, environmentally-concerned students and citizens, to share Earth-sustaining ideas, and to collectively make a difference for a livable world.

April 22 & 23: Earth Days & Night Spokane

Saturday 10 am to 11 pm, Sunday 10 am to 4 pm, Riverfront Park Pavilion, Spokane, Washington

Celebrating five years of honoring the sacredness of the planet and human existence and interconnections with it, this community festival is expanding into Spokane’s most iconic landmark, the Pavilion and nearby central meadow. Its tireless working group is extending the event again into Earth Night and adding second day.  A diversity of sustainability-focused groups, artists, vendors, and businesses from various cultures will showcase their work, and the kid-friendly Procession of the Species Parade will walk through the gathering at 1:30 pm on Saturday.  Other attractions include live concerts held on two stages beneath dome structures, with key musicians, dancers, and aerial performers, a beer garden featuring local brewers, and outside food and beverages.

Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and RADAR present Radical Movie Night!, a bi-monthly, documentary series intended to inspire, challenge, and educate participants toward democracy.  From 6 pm to 8 pm on Thursday, April 13, the co-hosts present full-length and short films for a double feature with free admission, at Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters, 524 Church Street in Sandpoint, Idaho.

In the April 2015 biography Requiem for the American Dream: Noam Chomsky and the Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power, interviews over four years with the most quoted intellectual and author alive provide penetrating insights into the defining characteristic and legacy of our time – a half-century of deliberate, historically unprecedented inequality favoring the most wealthy at the expense of the majority.  Noam Chomsky’s profoundly personal and thought provoking discourses and reflections on his life of activism and political participation offer potent reminders and hope that power ultimately belongs to the governed.

Through the first episode of Trouble – the March 2017, short video Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle – grassroots, independent, media collective sub.Media looks beyond the mainstream narratives about the Standing Rock indigenous and allied resistance encampment, to understand its overlooked dynamics, including serious disagreements over tactics to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

Please join RADAR and WIRT for these screenings and discussions of radical films and videos produced to aid current, worldwide, social and environmental struggles and promote just, sustainable, shared solutions.  These events and ongoing, regional, climate activism rely on donations from viewers and supporters.  Visit the WIRT website and facebook pages for further, online, information resources, and call 208-610-5354 with your questions about this documentary series.