The Wednesday, August 9, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features the second half of the Spokane train blockaders talk in Sandpoint, Idaho, on July 29.  Raging Grannies Margie Heller, Nancy Nelson, and Deena Romoff and Veteran for Peace Rusty Nelson discuss their reasons for and results of stopping coal and oil trains in East Spokane, Washington, in late August and September 2016.  We also cover upcoming, tar sands pipeline valve turner hearings, a northern Alberta healing gathering, a Kalispel Tribe paddle, and Sandpoint climate change and rail bridge resistance presentations, trainings, and actions, as well as two Shut Down Fossil Fuels blockades of the same oil train in western Washington, on Monday after Base Camp.  Broadcast for five and a half 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 offers news and interviews about continent-wide, community opposition to fossil fuel projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, August 2, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features the first of two parts of the Spokane train blockaders talk in Sandpoint, Idaho, on July 29.  Raging Grannies Margie Heller, Nancy Nelson, and Deena Romoff and Veteran for Peace Rusty Nelson discuss their backgrounds, motivations, arrests, and court cases for blocking Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal and oil trains in East Spokane, Washington, in late August and September 2016.  We also cover an upcoming Kalispel Tribe paddle, a fossil fuel resistance camp, second Lake Pend Oreille rail bridge opposition outreach, and oil pipeline protests, sabotage, and reduced regulations in California, North Dakota, and Montana.  Broadcast for five and a half 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 offers news and interviews about continent-wide, community resistance to fossil fuel projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features a conversation with Lutheran pastor, Veteran for Peace, and Spokane Climate Protector George Taylor.  George will talk about the context and motivations of Spokane fossil fuel train blockades and associated, lawsuit hearings upholding the necessity defense and Constitutional rights to a healthy climate and community self-government.  We also discuss the Spokane Climate Protector talk and Kalispel Powwow Paddle in Sandpoint, another, inland Northwest, grain train derailment, and a California protest of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline.  Broadcast for five and a half 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 via livestream, the show covers news and interviews about continent-wide, community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, July 19, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features news about Puyallup tribal and allied protection of the Salish Sea from a natural gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas plant in the Tacoma, Washington area.  Among discussions of upcoming talks and action camps, a proposed, Longview, coal terminal and eastern Oregon, rail reloading facility, and a Spokane climate change ordinance, we also air updates on federal court cases brought by the Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition against U.S. Highway 95 expansion onto Paradise Ridge, by Spokane fossil fuel train blockaders for citizen rights to a healthy climate, and by the Swinomish Tribe against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway oil-by-rail transports across its lands.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, airs the third half-hour of the June 26 Witnesses for the Climate presentation by civil resistance expert Thomas Hastings of Portland State University, who testified at the first court hearing of Spokane Climate Protectors train blockaders.  We also discuss upcoming, Northwest fossil fuels opposition talks and action camps, a Spokane federal court hearing asserting citizen rights to a livable climate, a Boise federal lawsuit against state forced pooling of private oil and gas resources, and recent Montana earthquakes and fault line concerns for the proposed, second, rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community resistance to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, July 5, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, airs the second half-hour of the June 26 Witnesses for the Climate presentations by climate scientist Steven Running, of the University of Montana and NASA, and civil disobedience expert Thomas Hastings of Portland State University, who both testified at the first court hearing of the Spokane Climate Protectors train blockaders.  We also discuss upcoming trainings, actions, talks, and camps opposing Northwest fossil fuel infrastructure, oil and coal train derailments in a Chicago suburb and on a Montana river bridge, Oregon and Washington state decisions affecting two proposed, Columbia River-side, oil terminals, and the second jury trial and sentence of tar sands pipeline valve turner Ken Ward.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community resistance to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, discusses a federal lawsuit filed by Treasure Valley landowners against Idaho oil and gas forced-pooling, a state-approved sale of Portland General Electric oil tanks to a previous Global Partners oil train terminal, potentially increased Lake Pend Oreille rail bridge fossil fuels traffic, a Spokane ballot initiative limiting coal train dust and oil train volatility, and the first court hearing and expert witness presentations for Spokane fossil fuel train blockaders.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community resistance to dirty energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, discusses news about a Bonneville Power Administration transformer megaload on the Lewiston Grade, a second lake rail bridge meeting and Earth First! direct action workshop in Sandpoint, activist scrutiny and the first Idaho audit of possible industry under-reporting of oil and gas well production, a federal court order favoring Sioux tribes’ opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline, Columbia Gorge Commission rejection of double Union Pacific Railroad tracks through Mosier, and the re-emerging Global Partners oil train terminal on the lower Columbia River.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community resistance to fossil fuel projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features June 3 speeches by Grand Ronde, Umatilla, and Warm Springs tribal representatives, a Mosier physician, resident, and student, Hood River officials, and a Columbia Gorge minister, at the first anniversary commemoration of the Mosier, Oregon, oil train disaster.  We also discuss the KRFP full power fund drive this week, the Earth First! Road Show and Direct Action Camp in Sandpoint, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway work on north Idaho double tracks and a second Lake Pend Oreille rail bridge, and citizen comments by June 16 on an Idaho Transportation Department application for its Highway 95 E-2 alignment south of Moscow.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community opposition to fossil fuel projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features a Sandpoint presentation by Ben Otto of the Idaho Conservation League, about Northwest utility company energy choices.  We also discuss first-anniversary commemorations in three states of the oil train derailment, spill, and fire in Mosier, Oregon, the aftermath of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe corn train wreck near Cocolalla, proposed gas and oil pipelines under the Payette River, and new Idaho oil and gas rules and commission composition.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide, community opposition to fossil fuel projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.