Climate Justice Forum: 10th Anniversary, George Monbiot, Rail Line Transfer, Northwest Power Plant, Refineries, Record Temps, & Nuclear Waste, B.C. & Virginia Pipeline Resistance 1-26-22


The Wednesday, January 26, 2021, tenth anniversary, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features British journalist and author George Monbiot describing climate and social change tipping points.  We also share news and reflections on BNSF Railway termination of a Montana Rail Link lease, a planned Idaho lakeside timber sale and impacts, opposition to requested pollution increases at an Oregon gas-fired power plant, proposed retirement of Washington oil refineries, 2021 Northwest extreme temperature records, U.S. Navy rail shipment and storage of nuclear waste in Idaho, dropped charges against indigenous occupiers of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Native resistance to British Columbia tar sands pipeline expansion, and federal court rejection of Virginia gas pipeline approvals.  Broadcast for ten years this week 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: Martin Luther King, Jr. on Vietnam War, Government Oppression, & Nonviolent Protest, First Idaho Oil & Gas Waste Well, Potential BNSF Railway Strike 1-19-22


The Wednesday, January 19, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s April 1967 Beyond Vietnam speech in New York City, and a tribute remembering his strong commitment to equality, peace, and nonviolent direct actions, and resulting government retaliation.  We also share news and reflections on opposition to Idaho’s first oil and gas waste injection well and a potential strike by BNSF Railway workers over a new attendance policy.  Broadcast for ten years this week 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: Dan Serres on Oregon Methanol Refinery, Washington Train Fatality & Unreported Wrecks, Montana Railroad Takeover, Baltimore Coal Terminal Explosion, B.C. & Pennsylvania Pipeline Protests, Nuclear Waste Transports 1-12-22


The Wednesday, January 12, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Dan Serres of Columbia Riverkeeper talking with Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein, about attempts to build a Port Westward, Oregon, methanol refinery and other Northwest fossil fuels facilities.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on British Columbia indigenous and Canadian solidarity protests of a gas pipeline and police assaults, another Washington fatality on a new Amtrak route, unreported derailments, and train problems, Montana Rail Link takeover by BNSF Railway, a Baltimore coal terminal explosion, a Pennsylvania pipeline construction blockade, and nuclear waste transportation and storage across the Northwest and nation.  Broadcast for almost ten 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: Dan Serres on Oregon Methanol Refinery, Military Trains, Colorado Wildfires & Coal Derailment, Minnesota Line 3 Breaches, B.C. Rail & Pipeline Protesters, Antarctic Glacier, Spokane Indigenous Film 1-5-22


The Wednesday, January 5, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Dan Serres of Columbia Riverkeeper talking with Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein, about attempts to build a Port Westward, Oregon, methanol refinery and other Northwest fossil fuels facilities.  We also share songs, news, and reflections on December West Coast military trains, a British Columbia (B.C.) court decision allowing railroad prosecution of track blockaders, Colorado climate crisis-fueled winter wildfires and a coal derailment, Minnesota Line 3 aquifer breaches and waterway pollution, B.C. First Nation and Chicago solidarity actions against a gas pipeline, police invasions, and bank funders, Spokane film screening and discussion of cross-continent indigenous organizing, and a collapsing Antarctic glacier and global deluge.  Broadcast for almost ten 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.