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Flashpoints Interview of Nick Engelfried, Helen Yost, & Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky

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On Wednesday evening, June 6, Flashpoints radio show host Dennis Bernstein talked with Nick Engelfried of Blue Skies Campaign in Missoula, Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky of Portland Rising Tide and Columbia Riverkeeper in Portland, and Helen Yost of Wild Idaho Rising Tide in Moscow about the Northwest Extraction Resistance Workshop in Spokane on June 8 and 9 and about regional protests of coal export trains, tar sands megaloads, and natural gas fracking.  The program aired on KRFP Radio Free Moscow on the same night and can also be downloaded from KPFA Free Speech Radio in Berkeley.  Listen to between 21:31 and 36:50 of this nationally broadcast episode or to the 14-minute discussion excerpted and uploaded online by Tom Hansen of Moscow.  Thanks, Dennis, Tom, and KPFA!

WIRT Follows Port of Pasco Megaloads & Has Pre-Trial Hearing on Misdemeanors

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On Sunday, April 15, two Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists monitored three ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil tar sands shipments from the Port of Pasco, Washington, to Idaho, noting their convoy vehicles, timing and fluctuating speeds, traffic delays and disruptions, and overpass bypass routes.  At a second pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, April 17, Helen Yost requested charges as lenient as the sentence of a megaload driver who hit a flagger-diverted vehicle on December 6, for her misdemeanors of throwing a foam board protest sign at the 415,000-pound, last Highway 95 megaload and air-kicking toward a Moscow police officer on March 6.  Her lawyer, Ben Onosko of the Northern Rockies Justice Center, will file a motion questioning the definition of a moving vehicle and has scheduled a September trial for both citations.  Listen between 9:48 and 2:34 of the April 17, 2012, KRFP Radio Free Moscow Evening Report, Earth Day Awards, to learn more about both situations.

Megaload Protesters Receive Earth Day Award as Earth Protectors

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Earth Day Award for Megaload Protestors on April 16, 2012

(Tom Hansen video clip of the following minutes)

Moscow City Council Meeting Minutes 4-16-12

At the April 16, 2012, Moscow City Council meeting, Mayor Nancy Chaney announced her annual Earth Day Award recipients: Colter’s Creek Winery, Doug Wasankari, Matt Dolkas, Moscow High School Environmental Club, Moscow CommUNITY Walk, Gail DeSantis, Palouse Land Trust, and Margaret and Maynard Fosberg. She also recognized the megaload protesters as Earth Protectors. Watch between 41:08 and 45:15 of the videotaped meeting for our mayor’s remarks and community members’ acceptance of the award.

For an audio news version, listen to Mayor Chaney Hands Out Earth Day Awards between 21:28 and 16:52 of the April 17, 2012, KRFP Radio Free Moscow Evening Report, Earth Day Awards.

Dr. Helen Caldicott at April 15 Hanford Rally

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For KRFP Radio Free Moscow, where Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) hosts the Climate Justice Forum radio program every Monday at 7:30 pm PDT, WIRT member Helen Yost interviewed legendary nuclear activist and physician Helen Caldicott in person at the A15 Hanford Rally: North America’s Fukushima? hosted by Occupy Portland and other resistance groups on Sunday, April 15.  Excerpts of the interview and Dr. Caldicott’s and another speech aired on the KRFP Monday, April 16, Evening Report, Palouse Earthworm, Hanford, between 20:49 and 6:48.  As the good doctor suggested, we intend to educate regional downwinders and our Congressional representatives about Hanford’s dangers.

Flashpoints Interview of Cass Davis and Jim Prall

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On Wednesday evening, March 7, two of the four valiant activists who risked arrest or were jailed by police on Sunday, March 4, for peacefully blocking megaload parts of an Alberta tar sands upgrader plant moving through Moscow, Idaho, talked with Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein.  Listen to the first 17:52 minutes of this radio program as Cass Davis and Jim Prall describe tar sands devastation, political corruption, Idaho’s megaload dilemma, Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s anti-megaload campaign, and protesters’ civil disobedience on KPFA Free Speech Radio in Berkeley.

Flashpoints Interview of Lin Laughy & Helen Yost

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Thanks to Cass Davis who sought broader media coverage of our ordeals, our anti-megaload campaigns and quandaries finally emerged on the national airwaves!  For a comprehensive description of our Idaho battles against ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil equipment transports degrading our rural roads and wild places into police state industrial corridors to the Alberta tar sands, listen to between 17:30 and 34:30 of the nationally syndicated progressive radio program Flashpoints, broadcast on Tuesday, December 6, 2011.  On listener-sponsored KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley, free speech radio host Dennis Bernstein, who visited Idaho in October 2010, interviewed anti-megaload litigants and activists Linwood Laughy and Helen Yost.  Although we neglected to mention our usual spiel about our constant, most urgent motivations to halt the boreal forest/wetland ecosystem ruin and global climate chaos resulting from Alberta tar sands exploitation, our disproportionate ranting about megaload mishaps presaged a strange four-hour synchronicity with the worst megaload accident yet: a second direct collision with a vehicle stopped by a flagger (please see the television video at Megaload Accident).

Listen to Flashpoints – December 6, 2011 to hear our stories.

(Link provided by Romney Boehm & Rob Briggs)