The Wednesday, December 20, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Last Week Tonight comedian host John Oliver discussing dangerous, obstructive, freight trains and railway company policies favoring profits over worker and trackside community safety.  We also share news, music, and reflections on global solidarity against Israeli government genocide of Palestinians, the northern hemisphere winter solstice, an Idaho military supply train and Washington vehicle collisions with fossil fuels trains, excessive police force at a massive protest of Atlanta cop training facility construction, a Northwest gas pipeline expansion among climate emergencies and nationwide growth of pipelines under-monitored by a federal agency, and a Congressional push to reform the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.  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 fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →