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 →