The Wednesday, August 30, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on unaddressed toxic emissions from southwest Idaho gas facilities, the one-year anniversary of suspended wetland damage permits for an Idaho highway expansion, a Spokane totem pole journey stop and blessing honoring Leonard Peltier, north Idaho rain relief from regional wildfires and a filed objection to a winter recreation vehicle forest plan, eastern Idaho meetings on potential nuclear waste storage, coastal dangers and Seattle protests of Japan release of Fukushima radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean, Washington rules to protect refinery workers and communities, New York City and nationwide climate marches to end fossil fuels, and a proposed sulfide mine and water protector trials around the Minnesota Line 3 tar sands pipeline.  Broadcast for eleven 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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, August 23, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on Idaho highway construction delayed by deficient state permit applications, swiftly large wildfires, evacuations, and states of emergency in eastern Washington and north Idaho near a federally postponed gas pipeline expansion, regulator rejection of a railroad request to stop forced coal transportation, a refiled Oregon biofuel refinery rail yard application, a newly operational solar power project in Montana, and lawsuits challenging Nevada lithium mining cases against water protectors and denouncing Alaska LNG export approval.  Broadcast for eleven 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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, August 16, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, videos, and reflections on the tenth anniversary of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) blockades of tar sands megaloads in their Idaho reservation and wildlands, an Idaho women’s symposium on legislative threats to reproductive health, BNSF Railway completion and traffic on its two-way, double tracks and second bridges on Lake Pend Oreille, a north Idaho gas pipeline rupture and reburied exposure under a river, wildfires and evacuations in small cities, near a gas compressor station planned for expansion, and within a massive, litigated, proposed logging project in lakeside mountains, Oregon opposition to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, protests and arrests at a Washington nuclear submarine base and Appalachian pipeline work site, and federal court decisions denying attorney fee recovery to Idaho gas well drilling proponents and affirming Montana youth constitutional rights to state climate action.  Broadcast for eleven 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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, August 9, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on the dangerously leaking Hanford nuclear weapon production site in Washington, the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan and the deadly legacy of Oppenheimer and nuclear energy for indigenous peoples, BNSF Railway completion of its north Idaho double tracks and second bridges, federal and state agency application of toxic herbicides in Lake Pend Oreille, and a wildfire in a massive, litigated, logging project in lakeside mountains.  Broadcast for eleven 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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the seventh annual Kalispel and allied tribal canoe journey, successful delay of a federal decision on an unsafe Northwest pipeline expansion after a fiery Virginia gas line explosion and public and political pressure, calls to frontline defense camps opposing Appalachia and British Columbia gas pipeline construction, actions dissuading bank loans for an Atlanta cop training facility, a deadly north Idaho train and vehicle collision, widespread downstream fossil fuels contamination from a Yellowstone River bridge derailment, spike sabotaged North Carolina railroad tracks, Congressional spending bill obstacles to Idaho wind energy, August blue super moons, and Irish uprising ballads.  Broadcast for eleven 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. Continue reading →