On the Monday, December 17, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide again gratefully welcomes Jesse Cardinal, the downriver coordinator for Keepers of the Athabasca and co-organizer of the annual Tar Sands Healing Walk near Fort McMurray, in Alberta.  Jesse will talk about First Nations resistance through protests and court cases to tar sands exploitation and through an emerging movement against recently passed Canadian federal legislation that would degrade indigenous rights.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers regional and continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news.  Thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as his KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, December 3, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide welcomes Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, community organizer for Columbia Riverkeeper in Portland and an activist trainer at the Northwest Extraction Resistance Workshop last June in Spokane.  Jasmine talks about the Morrow Pacific Project proposal to build port facilities in Boardman and Saint Helens, Oregon, which would export Montana and Wyoming coal by Northwest rail, river barges, and ocean-going ships to Asia.  She discusses citizen resistance, through petition drives, public rallies and hearings, and comment periods, to the potentially detrimental impacts of exported coal extraction, transportation, and combustion as well as other Riverkeeper initiatives.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and opposition.  Listen to an edited recording of the December 3 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All.  Thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as his KRFP DJ!

The Monday, November 26, Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features Peter Goodman, an Occupy Albany activist who participated in the November 3 Stand Up! Fight Back! Against Big Coal in the Northwest workshop in Spokane, Washington.  Peter will discuss the potentially detrimental impacts of proposed coal export train traffic and port terminals at Boardman, Saint Helens, and Coos Bay, and associated Oregon citizen resistance through petition drives, public rallies and hearings, and government statements and resolutions.  Brian Koepke, an environmental science graduate student, technical assistant, and outreach coordinator with the Washington State University Environmental Science Club/Task Force, will talk about a recent mock oil spill demonstration and other initiatives on campus and Dana Lyons’ workshop and concert on Wednesday.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and opposition to fossil fuel extraction and transportation projects.  Thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as his KRFP DJ!

The Monday, November 5, Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features Raphael Cordray, co-founder of Utah Tar Sands Resistance, talking about challenges in the streets and courts of U.S. Oil Sands permits to mine state lands for tar sands in the Uinta Basin of eastern Utah.  Raphael discusses public hearings, court cases, demonstrations, and site visits organized in Salt Lake City and near Moab, Utah, over the last few years, as citizens resist the first bitumen extraction in the country.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and opposition to fossil fuel extraction and transportation projects.  Listen to an edited recording of the November 5 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All.  Thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who recently adopted program host Helen Yost as his KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, October 29, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), we welcome Occupy Spokane activist Terry Hill, who is co-organizing the Stand Up! Fight Back! Against Big Coal in the Northwest information sharing, brainstorming, and direct action planning event in Spokane, Washington, on Saturday, November 3.  Terry will discuss the Spokane resolution calling for health and environmental analyses of proposed coal export trains, regional resistance and arguments against train impacts, Bellingham and Spokane coal port public hearings, and the August Coal Export Action in Helena.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and opposition to fossil fuel extraction and transportation projects.  Adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, October 22, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), we gratefully talk with former Pittsburgh City Council president Doug Shields, an active anti-fracking consultant, prior council member chief-of-staff, and litigation paralegal specializing in environmental and regulatory law (douglas.shields20@gmail.com).  Concerned about the human and environmental health impacts of hydraulic fracturing, Doug introduced and secured unanimous passage of a community rights ordinance that prohibited shale gas extraction operations in Pittsburgh, the first such ban in the nation, adopted on November 16, 2010.  (See Doug’s brief appearance on Democracy Now!, Pittsburgh Ban on Natural Gas Fracking Faces Challenge from State Authorities.)  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and opposition to fossil fuel extraction and transportation projects.  Listen to an edited recording of the October 22 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

The Monday, October 15, Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), welcomes Bellingham performer and environmental educator Dana Lyons, who is bringing his Great Coal Train Tour to Moscow on Friday evening, October 19.  Dana shares stories of resistance to proposed Northwest coal export mines, trains, and ports, gathered on his tour from potentially impacted communities, like eastern Montana ranchers, Lummi Indians, and Puget Sound residents, along the railroad/shipping lane route from Montana to Washington and Oregon.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and opposition to fossil fuel extraction and transportation projects.  Listen to an edited recording of the October 15 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On the Monday, September 17, 2012, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) again welcomes Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, talking about the Global Frackdown! demonstration in Boise on Saturday, September 22, citizen concerns about impending natural gas fracking, injection wells, and associated facilities, and upcoming initiatives to ban these toxic practices.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news.  Listen to an edited recording of the September 17 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.