On the Monday, April 30, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide, Joann Muneta will describe the recent evolution and resulting situation of Moscow Farmers Market non-profit tabling policies.  Shane Stancik of the Silver Valley Community Resource Center in Kellogg, Idaho, will talk about tomorrow’s May Day protest against the Environmental Protection Agency’s deposit in a flooded Cataldo wetland of Superfund Site soils contaminated with lead and heavy metals.  We will also broadcast the entire April 15 Hanford Rally speech of nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott and discuss upcoming Rising Tide and Occupy protests in Spokane and Chicago.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow online or at 92.5 FM between 7:30 and 9 pm PDT and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, April 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide activists Allie Pfeiffer, Ellen Roskovich, and Jacki Vorhees will talk about dirty energy development impacts on Native Americans and rural residents in the Bakken oil shale fields in Montana and North Dakota and along the Northern Gateway pipeline in British Columbia. We will also discuss tar sands megaload traffic in Washington and protester awards and criticism in Idaho. Listen online or at 92.5 FM to KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:00 pm and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, April 9, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists will host Brad Read of Envision Spokane, who taught the Spokane Democracy School last weekend and has organized a city-wide coalition supporting 2009 and 2011 ballot initiatives instituting a community bill of rights.  Cass Davis will read and talk about the statements that he and Jim Prall presented at their Friday sentencing for disturbing the peace of megaload traffic through Moscow, Idaho.  Also hear a review of dirty energy projects and resistance by listening to KRFP Radio Free Moscow online or at 92.5 FM between 7:30 and 9:00 pm PDT and support progressive, volunteer radio by adopting WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On the Monday evening, April 2, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted online and on-the-air by Wild Idaho Rising Tide organizers between 7:30 and 9 pm Pacific time, we talked again with anti-fracking activists Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher of Payette County, Idaho.  They discussed resident initiatives to counter emerging natural gas exploitation recently facilitated by industry bills and state rules enacted by the Idaho legislature and governor.  Alma also described the conflicts of interest and disregard of constituents’ concerns among myriad state legislators, agency personnel, and county officials.  Listen to an excerpt of our conversation, Little Regulation of Payette County Fracking Near Homes Expected, between 20:50 and 13:29 on the Tuesday, April 3, KRFP Radio Free Moscow Evening Report, Climate Change.  WIRT intends to edit the sound quality of all of the Climate Justice Forums and post links to each broadcast on our website.

The Monday, March 26, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) will feature local activists talking about Moscow and Spokane Democracy Schools led by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, resulting initiatives, and YOUR insights on dirty energy resistance in Moscow and beyond.  Please call 208-892-9200 between 7:30 and 9:00 pm PDT, as we also cover news about recent tar sands protests in Cushing, Oklahoma, and Vancouver, British Columbia, and upcoming actions in Spokane, Helena, and elsewhere.  Listen to the show online at KRFP Radio Free Moscow or at 92.5 FM and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, March 19, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists will talk with Lowell Chandler of the Blue Skies group in Missoula, Montana, and Jace Bylenga of Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper in Sandpoint, Idaho, about the impacts of coal trains bound for Asian export at West Coast ports on the residents, land, water, and air along the tracks as well as ongoing citizen initiatives to stop proposed increases in train traffic. Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow at 92.5 FM or online between 7:30 and 9 pm Pacific time and sponsor WIRT as you Adopt a DJ for only $10 per month.

On the Monday, March 12, Climate Justice Forum hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide between 7:30 and 9:00 pm PDT on KRFP Radio Free Moscow, we will feature Brent Rowley of Northern Rockies Rising Tide talking about regional activism against the tar sands as well as Moscow-visiting Australian activist Ellie Smith speaking about coal extraction in her country and Appalachian mountain top removal opposed by Mountain Justice.  Hear about other regional dirty energy projects and resistance, too, at 92.5 FM or online!

On the March 5 broadcast of Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s Climate Justice Forum radio program, we will feature activists Pat Monger and Jeanne McHale, who linked arms and sat with Cass Davis and Jim Prall, whom police arrested for blocking megaloads of a tar sands upgrader plant traversing Washington Street in Moscow on Sunday, March 4.  We will also talk with Emily Stock of Canyon Country Rising Tide in Moab, Utah, about resistance to already permitted tar sands mining and processing projects near Arches and Canyonlands national parks.  Please listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow at 92.5 FM or online, between 7:30 and 9 pm PST every Monday, as we cover news about regional and national dirty energy projects and associated grassroots resistance.

This Monday, February 27, Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s weekly broadcast and audio-streamed Climate Justice Forum radio program will host John Wolverton of the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club and Kyla Wiens of the Montana Environmental Information Center in a conversation about their court case with Missoula County and the National Wildlife Federation, the repercussions of Judge Dayton’s decision, and the future of our regional resistance to tar sands heavy hauls by several companies.  Please listen between 7:30 and 9 pm PST every Monday to KRFP Radio Free Moscow, as we cover regional and national dirty energy news and grassroots resistance.

By adopting Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) as a DJ for only ten dollars per month, you could support the media outlet that has most accurately and continuously covered our work, KRFP Radio Free Moscow.  Please listen to WIRT’s Climate Justice Forum program every Monday at 7:30 pm PST.  This week, we will host Scott Parkin of Rising Tide North America, other radio guests, and news about regional dirty energy developments and resistance.