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 →