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 →