The Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features railroad workers and trackside environmental justice organizers advocating for U.S. rail system nationalization and electrification during a Freight Rail in the Public Interest webinar.  We also share news, music, and reflections on the September Equinox, north Idaho oil trains and a possible rail bridge construction crane leak into Lake Pend Oreille, West Coast U.S. Senators delay of a GTN Xpress pipeline decision, Northwest student climate strikes and New York City protests to end fossil fuels and a gas pipeline expansion, support local renewable energy, and declare a climate emergency, and a United Nations summit on sustainable development goals.  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 →