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.

Oil Train, November 4, 2013 David Rovics

Three westbound, BNSF, oil trains crossed Sandpoint…, September 20, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Did a BNSF Rail Bridge Construction Crane Leak Oil into Lake Pend Oreille?, September 18, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Ten Facts about the September Equinox, September 19, 2023 Time and Date

September 21 GTN Xpress Decision Delayed by Five-Senator Letter!, September 18, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Rally to End Fossil Fuels, September 19, 2023 XR Seattle

‘It’s Going to Cause a Lot of Damage’: C.O. Climate Activists Protest Amid Global Strike, Call for ‘Climate Crisis’ Declaration, September 15, 2023 KTVZ

See also: Climate Activists Protest outside Bend City Hall, September 15, 2023 Bend Bulletin

Local Youth Continue Their Fight against Climate Change and Idaho Power, September 18, 2023 Boise Weekly

See also: Boise Youth Climate Activists March in the Name of Clean Energy, September 15, 2023 KIVI

See also: Boise Students Held Youth Climate Strike in Support of Renewable Energy, September 15, 2023 Boise State Public Radio

Boise School Board Member Arrested in New York City for Making ‘Good Trouble’, September 19, 2023 Boise Weekly

See also: Boise School Board Member, Climate Activist Arrested in New York City Protest, September 15, 2023 Idaho Statesman/Yahoo! News

2023 Sustainable Development Goals Summit, 2023 United Nations

Where Is This Train Going? Freight Rail in the Public Interest, September 11, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

See also: Where Is This Train Going? Webinar Series, September 8, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide