On the Monday, August 6, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) hosts core WIRT activist extraordinaire Rob Briggs of Pullman, Washington, discussing climate change considerations and his August 2011 Washington DC arrest in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.  Originally broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news, as WIRT returns from the Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta.  Listen to an edited recording of the August 6 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On the Monday, July 30, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) welcomes Henia Belalia, director of Peaceful Uprising, and Ashley Sanders, local coordinator and national steering committee member of Move to Amend, both of Salt Lake City.  Henia and Ashley discuss demonstrations at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference, political prisoner recognition on the first anniversary of Tim DeChristopher’s incarceration, and Move to Amend’s Thursday Utah Supreme Court hearing about its city ballot resolution denouncing corporate personhood and monetary political influence.  Southwestern Idaho activists Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher also talk about their participation in last week’s Stop the Frack Attack lobbying and 5000-person protest in Washington DC as well as looming seismic testing and extraction of natural gas near Payette.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, as the show covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news, and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s (WIRT) Monday, July 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program, we gratefully talk with Jesse Cardinal, downriver coordinator for Keepers of the Athabasca in Alberta and co-organizer of the Third Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk at Fort McMurray, and Greg Mack, lead activist of Northern Rockies Earth First! in Moscow, Idaho.  Jesse discusses the August 4 spiritual journey and First Nations resistance to tar sands exploitation, and Greg recounts the first ever suspension of a hydraulic fracturing drilling operation in the U.S., in response to a July 8 EF! blockade in a Pennsylvania state forest.  Originally broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news.  Listen to an edited recording of the July 23 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On the Monday, July 16, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists talk with Gary Macfarlane, anti-megaload ally and ecosystem defense director of the Moscow, Idaho-based wildland/wildlife conservation organization Friends of the Clearwater.  Gary discusses the history and trajectory of ongoing regional endeavors in state and federal courts to bar Alberta tar sands equipment transports in the wild and scenic river corridor along Highway 12 in Idaho and on Montana rural roads.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow live at 92.5 FM or online every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT for regional and continent-wide climate activism news and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.