The Wednesday, October 30, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features California governor Gavin Newsom, Washington governor Jay Inslee, and health professionals speaking against anti-climate Washington ballot initiatives at a Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility rally and canvassing event.  We also share news, music, and reflections on scary climate change facts worthy of action during Halloween, Idaho utilities backpedaling on clean energy transitions, a Louisiana train derailment and environmental justice advocate response, downstream indigenous reactions to Alberta tar sands mines and toxic, leaking tailings ponds, court dates and support of First Nations land defenders from the Coastal GasLink pipeline, and increasing lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies for damages, misleading advertising, and unreduced emissions.  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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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 →

The Wednesday, October 23, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features journalist and author Justin Nobel reporting on the dangerous but secret radioactivity of oil and gas extraction, transportation, and contamination of industry workers, their families, and nearby communities and environments.  We also share news, recordings, and reflections on a 1990 Carl Sagan speech about climate change solutions, Oregon and Washington compressor station construction for the GTN Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion, and Canadian indigenous resistance to the Coastal GasLink and Prince Rupert gas pipelines, government-owned Trans Mountain oil pipeline, and Alberta tar sands mines and toxic, leaking tailings ponds.  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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline opposition 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 →

The Wednesday, October 16, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features participants in the 2024 annual Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island, California, hosted by the International Indian Treaty Council and highlighting ongoing, global, Native defense and protection of their sovereignty, cultural identities, sacred homelands, and efforts opposing climate change.  We also share news, recordings, and reflections on a Columbia riverside agricultural community threatened by a proposed renewable diesel refinery at Port Westward, Oregon, Rising Tide Chicago gatherings and an indigenous water protectors travel fundraiser to shut down the Great Lakes Line 5 tar sands pipeline, the rare, visible Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet, and the closest full moon of 2024.  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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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 →

The Wednesday, October 9, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on faster BNSF Railway freight transportation between the Northwest and the southern Rockies and plains via new north Idaho train bridges, a southern Idaho oil and gas forced leasing application, drilling-impacted riverside city parcels, and state-cancelled public hearing, Oregon and Washington compressor station construction for the GTN Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion, artificial intelligence at data centers supporting and receiving energy from increased “natural” gas demand, a fiery pipeline explosion and evacuations in Texas and the coal-exceeding carbon footprint of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Hurricane Helene climate-worsened devastation and disaster relief in the southeast U.S.,  and fossil fuel industry participation and resulting protests at Climate Week New York City talks.  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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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 →

The Wednesday, October 2, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a Sierra Club panel discussion about Michigan and Wisconsin efforts to shut down the aging Enbridge Line 5 tar sands pipeline under and around the Great Lakes, which threatens fresh water, indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights, and global climate.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a north Idaho resistance training and protest of railroaded fossil fuels and infrastructure, numerous western Washington coal trains, forced leasing of riverside city-owned parcels for southern Idaho oil and gas drilling, and federal plans for highway shipments of Hanford liquid nuclear waste through the inland Northwest.  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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline opposition 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 →