The Monday, September 29, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Ellen Roskovich, a stalwart, core WIRT activist and supporter of environmental justice and community spirit, soon departing Moscow, Idaho, for Portland, Oregon. Ellen will reminisce about Moscow, WIRT, and indigenous resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure throughout the region during the last three years of her strong involvement in direct actions. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her/his KRFP DJ.
Category Archives: Climate Justice Forum
Climate Justice Forum: Michael Lewis & Tina Fisher 9-22-14
The Monday, September 22, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Michael Lewis, director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Idaho Water Science Center in Boise, Idaho, talking about a baseline water quality study proposed for Gem County before natural gas development. We also discuss recently proposed and ongoing installation of fossil fuel infrastructure with Tina Fisher of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, and lastly air a half-hour of speeches recorded by KRFP at the People’s Climate March in Portland, Oregon. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her/his KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Patrick Mazza 9-15-14
The Monday, September 15, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Patrick Mazza, a long-time Washington state climate activist, co-founder of Climate Solutions, and member of 350 Seattle and Rising Tide Seattle. As one of five Northwest fossil fuels resisters who blockaded an oil train at an Everett rail yard on September 2, Patrick discusses climate change, direct action, and political pressure to resolve impasses. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her/his KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Don Steinke 9-1-14
The Monday, September 1, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Don Steinke, a retired high school science teacher, member of Rising Tide, and a lead volunteer with the Sierra Club Beyond Coal and Oil Task Force in southwestern Washington. Don will discuss the proposed Tesoro Savage oil terminal in Vancouver, Washington, Northwest oil by rail, citizen resistance to these incursions, and their regional and global climate change impacts. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her/his KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Justin Kay 8-4-14
The Monday, August 4, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Justin Kay of Resistance Ecology, who is co-staging the nationwide Fight or Flight Summer 2014 Tour with The Bunny Alliance and Earth First! Journal, to intensify protests of Delta Airlines and the global Gateway to Hell campaigns to end the transport of animals to labs. From Lakota territory in South Dakota, Justin will provide tour and campaign updates and talk about a Northern Rockies direct action discussion and workshop hosted by the tour and WIRT in Moscow, Idaho, next Tuesday evening, August 12. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her/his KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Alma Hasse & Tina Fisher 7-21-14
The Monday, July 21, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide gratefully welcomes Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, from ground-zero of Idaho oil and gas exploitation, Payette County. Alma and Tina will provide updates on Idaho oil and gas negotiated rulemaking sessions, rule revisions, and disputes, especially forced pooling and minimum setbacks, as well as Bureau of Land Management mineral leasing decisions and public meetings and premature state permits. Among other topics, they will also talk about Gem County opposition to private property rights compromised by oil and gas rules, and current industry infrastructure developments and practices in Payette County, including tapping irrigation water for operations. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her/his KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Herb Goodwin 7-14-14
The Monday, July 14, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Herb Goodwin, a core WIRT and Occupy Bellingham activist resisting coal export and tar sands megaloads throughout the Northwest. Herb will talk about the oil industry end run around the U.S. crude oil export ban by eight proposed refineries with 80,000-barrel-per-day production capacities in Montana, North Dakota, and elsewhere. He will also discuss rapidly emerging megaload assembly plants and transports on the Montana Rocky Mountain Front, which build Alberta tar sands and Bakken shale oil extraction infrastructure. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: 6-30-14
The Monday, June 30, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features updates on the Tar Sands Healing Walk and solidarity actions in three states, resistance to increased, potentially explosive, fracked Bakken shale oil trains and terminals across the Northwest, and lawsuits, rulemaking, and opposition surrounding nascent oil and gas drilling and looming fracking in southern Idaho. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers climate activism and dirty energy developments across the continent, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Dana Lyons 6-23-14
The Monday, June 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes again folk musician and activist Dana Lyons of Bellingham, Washington. From June 6 to 30, including tonight in Moscow, Dana is conducting a series of performances and presentations on the Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour, raising awareness and resistance across the four-state Northwest to increased, potentially explosive, fracked Bakken shale oil trains, tanker ships, and proposed and operating oil storage, refining, and shipping terminals in Oregon and Washington. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers climate activism and dirty energy developments across the continent, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Matt Landon 6-9-14
The Monday, June 9, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Matt Landon, co-founder of the grassroots group Vancouver Action Network (VAN) in Washington. Matt will talk about VAN’s investigative and organizing work, including train spotting and documentation of potentially explosive Bakken shale oil rail shipments, Vancouver and regional resistance to associated proposed oil terminals, and efforts to build a state- and nation-wide movement with coordinated days of action. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers climate activism and dirty energy developments across the continent, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.