The Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features freelance writer Justin Mikulka and Railroad Workers United representative Mark Burrows, discussing further railroad regulations and practices to protect community and crew safety from flammable oil and hazardous materials trains.  We also share news, music, and reflections on upcoming north Idaho demonstrations opposing Northwest oil trains and infrastructure, a New York passenger train to Canada cancelled by heated rail concerns, the rapidly melting Juneau ice field in Alaska, and British Columbia court sentencing of a First Nation chief opposing gas pipeline construction through indigenous territory.  Broadcast for twelve 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.

Oil Train, November 4, 2013 David Rovics

Stop Oil Trains 2024, July 9, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Amtrak’s Adirondack Line Won’t Serve the North Country, Montréal ‘Until Further Notice’, June 26, 2023 Seven Days Vermont

Researchers Warn of Imminent ‘Death Spiral’ for Rapidly Melting Alaska Ice Field, July 2, 2024 Common Dreams

Dinï ze’ Dtsa’hyl Decision, July 6, 2024 Yintah Access

Oil Trains: Are Profits Worth Our Risk?, March 10, 2021 Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy