Climate Justice Forum: Idaho COVID Cases, Military, Nuclear, & Burning Trash Trains, Nevada Lithium Mine Injunction, B.C. Gas Line Intrusion, Minnesota Water Protector & Police Actions, Michigan Pipeline Shutdown 8-25-21


The Wednesday, August 25, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news and reflections about Idaho Panhandle COVID-19 case increases and health care capacities, inland Northwest military, nuclear waste, and burning trash trains, an indigenous injunction of a Nevada lithium mine, British Columbia gas pipeline disturbance of cultural sites, oil company defiance of a Michigan oil pipeline shutdown order, and a direct action training, cross-state walk, capital rally, police torture, and human rights violations of Minnesota tar sands pipeline opponents.  Broadcast for nine years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: David Wallace-Wells about Uninhabitable Earth, Northwest Wildfires, Forest Removal, & Climate, Alberta Train Collision, Zenith Rail Terminal & Line 3 Protests 8-18-21


The Wednesday, August 18, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features an interview of New York magazine journalist David Wallace-Wells, warning of shrinking space and resources around a globally warming, uninhabitable Earth.  We also cover news and reflections about north Idaho and Western wildfires, evacuations, air quality, and forest removal risks, inland Northwest climate change conditions, a head-on Alberta trains collision, Portland protests of the Zenith oil-by-rail terminal and Line 3 pipeline, and police violence and a cross-state march against a Minnesota tar sands pipeline.  Broadcast for nine years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Idaho Wildfires & Gas Leasing Hearings, Hot Columbia River Salmon Deaths, North Dakota Coal Derailment, Utah Oil Railroad, Nevada Lithium Mine, & Minnesota Pipeline Lawsuits, Climate Change Report 8-11-21


The Wednesday, August 11, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news and reflections about north Idaho wildfires, weather, and air quality, Idaho hearings on forced oil and gas leasing terms, an indigenous vigil for Columbia River and tributary salmon deaths in hot, dammed water, a North Dakota coal train derailment, tribal intervention and an injunction in a Nevada lithium mine lawsuit, a final environmental review and funding court case on a proposed Utah oil railway, Minnesota tar sands pipeline resistance training and wild rice rights litigation, and an intergovernmental report on widespread climate change impacts.  Broadcast for nine years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline opposition to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Idaho Wildfires & Forced Gas Leases, Kalispel Canoe Journey, Northwest Rail Sabotage & Fossil Fuel Facilities, Nevada Lithium Mine Lawsuit, Utah Tar Sands Scam 8-4-21


The Wednesday, August 4, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news and reflections about north Idaho wildfires, evacuations, smoky air quality, and hot temperatures, the fifth annual Kalispel and indigenous canoe journey, Idaho hearings on forced oil and gas leasing terms, Northwest sabotaged railroads and county and city policies regulating fossil fuel facilities and analyzing seismic risks, local tribes’ legal support of a Nevada lithium mine lawsuit, and Utah tar sands and oil shale development resistance.  Broadcast for nine years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

Fifth Kalispel Remember the Water Canoe Journey


Kalispel Annual Canoe JourneysFor the fifth annual, Remember the Water, canoe journey on August 4 through 7, 2021, Kalispel tribal members and friends are again portaging and paddling over 50 miles in dugout, wooden canoes, through their home lands and waters in the Pend Oreille lake and river watershed.  They will tentatively begin from the Hope Peninsula on Wednesday, August 4, and/or re-start or initially launch from Sandpoint City Beach Park on Thursday morning, August 5, ultimately reaching their destination of the Kalispel Village in Cusick, Washington, on Saturday, August 7.  Like during previous years, as depicted in linked photos and articles about prior paddles, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists and area groups plan to welcome the travelers at Sandpoint, during possible journey arrival on Wednesday and departure on Thursday [1-9].

The canoe journey always happens just before the annual Kalispel Powwow and around the time of the Festival at Sandpoint music concerts.  The Festival poster this year portrays vibrant, past and rekindled, Kalispel and regional, indigenous culture with sturgeon nose canoes and teepees in the painted foreground of the Festival stage tents [10].  With late-week thunderstorms looming, and wildfires only seven miles from the journey start producing heavy, valley smoke and reduced air quality, we are concerned about the health and safety of paddle participants.  But even while fossil fuels pipeline and pipeline-on-rails infrastructure expansions impose and risk further harms to indigenous people and places across Turtle Island (North America), Native neighbors are upholding and continuing their sustainable, traditional practices, through admirable endeavors like this canoe journey and culminating powwow.

Please see the updated, enclosed, Remember the Water schedule, join WIRT in observing, supporting, and sharing this joyful, cultural resurgence at various journey route locations, and contact Nathan or Betty Jo Piengkham via facebook and/or respond to WIRT, for further information, logistics, and ways to help. Continue reading