The Wednesday, May 29, 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 Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a Spokane Veterans for Peace demonstration and gathering for Memorial Day, to honor deceased warriors by ending wars, unusually high Northwest military train numbers during spring 2024, an online discussion of northern Nevada lithium mine resistance, indigenous perspectives, and protest defense litigation and support, and Cascade Natural Gas ratepayers opposition to GTN Xpress pipeline contracts for additional fracked methane.  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, May 22, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Fritz Edler, an international representative of Railroad Workers United, talking during the Dorothy Day Labor Forum about train crew and community safety and public ownership and environmental impacts of railways.  We also share news, music, and reflections on Northwest state and coalition litigation challenging approval of Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress methane pipeline compressor station construction, a federal rule prompting nationwide energy transmission infrastructure expansion, and a push for Chevron divestment from its oil and gas fields in Israel and off the occupied Palestine coast.  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, May 15, 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 Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on regional protests, presentations, and gas supply disruptions challenging GTN Xpress federal approval and compressor station construction, ongoing diminished demand and reduced extraction of Wyoming coal, unusually widespread northern lights displays, and Canadian wildfires and smoke impacting U.S. air quality for a second year.  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, May 8, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on regional protests, presentations, litigation, and disruptions challenging GTN Xpress methane pipeline compressor station construction and federal approval, a Mountain Valley pipeline rupture during testing before operation, domestic methane consumer prices increased by liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, impending Salish Sea oil tanker traffic from Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion completion, and inadequate pipeline inspections by federal contractors paid by pipeline 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, 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, May 1, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Kate Murphy of Columbia Riverkeeper and Mary Stites of Northwest Environmental Defense Center, talking about deceptive Zenith Energy plans and public opposition to its expansion of Portland volatile fuels storage and rail terminal operations.  We also share news, music, and reflections on widespread campus occupations resisting U.S. support of Israel genocide of Palestinians, regional litigation, protests, and presentations challenging GTN Xpress federal approval and gas compressor station construction, a fiery Alberta rupture of the NGTL methane pipeline supplying GTN, and the first 2024 north Idaho thunder and lightning.  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, April 24, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features an Earth/Greenwash Day 2021 conversation between WIRT co-founder and organizer Helen Yost and Green and Red Podcast host Scott Parkin, talking about a decade of allied, Northwest, direct action campaigns against fossil fuels transportation, extraction, and infrastructure and resulting industry and government backlash.  We also share news and reflections on Highway 95 and Eid Road construction closures south of Moscow, federal regulator approval of GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion and dismissal of three rehearing petitions, and Oregon youth protests of climate change and GTN Xpress.  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, April 17, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on a federal order to proceed with GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion and a dismissal of three rehearing requests, an industry-ghostwritten letter from the Idaho Congressional delegation, and a Moscow talk about GTN Xpress resistance, a Paradise Ridge walk mourning rerouted Highway 95 environmental damages and other Moscow week of action events, First Nation opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline at a funding bank annual meeting, coordinated global economic blockades to free Palestine, a Washington timber sale halted by monkey wrench tactics, and depleted uranium train shipments from Ohio and Kentucky to Texas.  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, April 10, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features CR McGary and the Eclectrix duo of Jessica Amy Cowitz and Fiddlin’ Big Al Chidester performing music at the 13th anniversary celebration of WIRT in Moscow on March 29.  We also share news and reflections on a Moscow talk and Seattle blockade of Amazon headquarters, protesting the GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion, inaccurate federal agency formulas for calculating gas pipeline rupture blast zones, a Paradise Ridge walk mourning Highway 95 construction, a month increase in Northwest military trains, coordinated global economic blockades to free Palestine, and opposition to Zenith Energy plans to expand Portland fuels storage and rail terminal operations.  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, April 3, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features north Idaho poets Adrian Murillo and Robins and musician Desiree Aguirre performing at the 13th anniversary celebration of WIRT in Sandpoint on March 28.  We also share news, music, and reflections on an upcoming GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion talk and Paradise Ridge walk mourning Highway 95 construction around Moscow, a Troublemakers blockade of Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle protesting gas pipeline expansion use, and citizen closure of the last coal plant in New England.  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, March 27, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on upcoming thirteenth anniversary celebrations of WIRT, Washington and Oregon state opposition to industry insistence on federal approval to start construction of the GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion in April 2024, letters to Northwest senators about energy commissioner nominees and their Congressional hearing, to Amazon denouncing its possible use of GTN Xpress gas, and to a British Columbia official warning of the climate impacts of increased fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, Canadian organizing pressure forcing changes in fossil fuels funding banks, and updates and resistance camp opportunities with First Nations.  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 →