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 →

The Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features testimony to the Surface Transportation Board by Bill Moyer of Backbone Campaign’s Solutionary Rail project, discussing electrification and public ownership of rail systems that could return freight from trucks to trains and reduce pollution, accidents, and road damages.  We also share news and reflections on the September Equinox Sun crossing of the equator, Eighth Panhandle Paddle protests of railroaded fossil fuels and infrastructure, GTN Xpress methane gas pipeline expansion construction at two possibly radioactive Northwest compressor stations, transportation plans for Hanford liquid nuclear waste through Spokane, Idaho, and beyond, restart of the disastrous Three Mile Island nuclear plant for Microsoft data center power, postponed General Motors investments and indigenous commemoration of massacred ancestors at a Nevada lithium mine, a proposed nationwide week without driving, a fundraiser for an attorney who successfully challenged Chevron contamination of Amazon lands and peoples, and increases in climate lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies.  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, September 18, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on increased Washington coal trains during early September, north Idaho oil trains with rusted tankers and mid-train buffer cars and Eighth Panhandle Paddle protests of railroaded fossil fuels and infrastructure, a Colorado derailment that destroyed a bridge and injured workers, an independent report addressing challenges and regulations of longer trains, construction completion of rerouted Highway 95 near Moscow delayed until 2025, a Boise rally demanding affordable solar power, Washington ballot initiative 2066 that would prolong fossil fuel use and impede clean energy transitions, unrealized Asian market profits from the Canada-purchased Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion in British Columbia, and the September super harvest full moon and its eclipse.  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, September 11, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 2023 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community and tribal members threatened by the Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on increased Washington coal trains during early September, Eighth Panhandle Paddle protests of railroaded fossil fuels and expanded infrastructure in north Idaho, GTN Xpress compressor station construction in Oregon and Washington, a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission letter in belated response to Northwest governors, a British Columbia (B.C.) case brought by criminalized Wet’suwet’en land defenders against Canadian police violence protecting the Coastal GasLink pipeline, and B.C. roads closed by Gitanyow hereditary chiefs opposing the rerouted Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line.  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, September 4, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13, 2023, People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community and tribal members threatened by the Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion.  We also share news and reflections on unusually high Washington coal and oil train numbers before the Labor Day holiday and indigenous, environmental group, and state government opposition to the Line 5 tar sands pipeline in Michigan and Wisconsin.  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, August 28, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on north Idaho megaloads bound for an Alaska refinery and reduced Union Pacific train traffic from a nationwide Canadian rail workers strike, toxic herbicide treatments in and around Lake Pend Oreille, increased customer utility bills from additional California methane gas infrastructure, an ongoing Northwest construction report and federal agency arguments against a request for a permit rehearing for the GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion, indigenous land defender blockades and defense hearings refuting two British Columbia methane pipelines, and opposition and comments on the Line 5 tar sands pipeline in Wisconsin.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, August 21, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features an Pipeline Fighters Hub webinar covering the February 2020 carbon pipeline rupture in the small, rural Mississippi town of Satartia.  A panel of emergency responders Jack Willingham and Jerry Briggs, journalist Dan Zegart, and Jane Kleeb of Bold Alliance discuss their on-site experiences, community health impacts and lingering aftermath, and the critical safety concerns of carbon pipelines.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, August 14, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on Idaho public hearings and proposed changes to state oil and gas development rules, a new north Idaho collaborative proposing federal legislation that “balances” public lands uses, a Spokane ordinance that would create a citizen board guiding climate and sustainability policies, Northwest GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion information, compressor station construction, and greenhouse gas emissions, appeals court rejection of federal approval of a similar New Jersey gas infrastructure proposal, and a Senator Manchin, Congressional bill that supports dirty energy permitting.  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. Continue reading →