The Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 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) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a Spokane candle light vigil, Seattle Times editorial, and multi-city inland Northwest protests opposing federal approval of GTN Xpress, updates from Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns shot in New Mexico, Wet’suwet’en land defender trials resulting from Coastal GasLink pipeline resistance in British Columbia, an upcoming mass action to halt construction of an Atlanta cop training facility, and a public comment period and North Dakota hearings on a court-ordered environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline.  Broadcast for eleven 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 opposition 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, October 25, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 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) pipeline expansion. We also share news, music, and reflections on recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of GTN Xpress, Spokane and Idaho news coverage, upcoming legal challenges, and inland Northwest protests of the FERC decision, updates and a benefit for Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns shot in New Mexico, and a Sunrise Movement explanation of the American Climate Corps. Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on a shooter sentencing hearing, press conference, and benefit art show for Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns wounded in New Mexico, the recent annular and upcoming solar eclipses, a deadly Colorado bridge coal train derailment and prolonged interstate closure, an excavator rupture and explosion of an Idaho gas pipeline proposed for reversal, and a looming federal decision and week of inland Northwest protests of GTN Xpress.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, October 11, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, videos, and reflections on Indigenous Peoples Day, the shooting of Spokane climate activist Jacob Johns at a peaceful New Mexico prayer gathering, calls by his family and Native community leaders for justice, unity, and federal hate crime charges, conservative representative and news demands for, and upcoming regional protests against, Northwest gas pipeline expansion, blockades of Appalachian pipeline construction and north Idaho park trees removal, and nuclear submarine and weapons facilities in a recently active Washington earthquake and tsunami zone.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, October 4, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Breach Collective staff attorney Nick Caleb talking about private Portland commissioners collusion with Zenith Energy oil train terminal officials, to secure a previously rejected city operating permit.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on a second federal approval of state wetland destruction permits that renew Idaho highway realignment construction and the counter-protester shooting of Spokane indigenous and climate activist Jacob Johns at a peaceful New Mexico demonstration.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, September 27, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Breach Collective staff attorney Nick Caleb talking about private Portland commissioners collusion with Zenith Energy oil train terminal officials, to secure a previously rejected city operating permit.  We also share news, music, and reflections on the September full Harvest Moon, massive groundwater pumping shifting Earth’s wobble, Idaho chapter and volunteer recipients of national Sierra Club awards, a Columbia River basin nuclear waste train, Montana bridge derailment contamination of Yellowstone River fish, Northwest communities and utility companies concerns about GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion, a New York City federal bank blockade challenging fossil fuels funding, and countrywide autumn talks before a large November action to block Atlanta cop  training center construction.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, September 20, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features railroad workers and trackside environmental justice organizers advocating for U.S. rail system nationalization and electrification during a Freight Rail in the Public Interest webinar.  We also share news, music, and reflections on the September Equinox, north Idaho oil trains and a possible rail bridge construction crane leak into Lake Pend Oreille, West Coast U.S. Senators delay of a GTN Xpress pipeline decision, Northwest student climate strikes and New York City protests to end fossil fuels and a gas pipeline expansion, support local renewable energy, and declare a climate emergency, and a United Nations summit on sustainable development goals.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, September 13, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features railroad workers and trackside environmental justice organizers advocating for U.S. rail system nationalization and electrification during a Freight Rail in the Public Interest webinar.  We also share news, music, and reflections on Northwest coalition, tribal, and government opposition to GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion, a Cop City construction blockade and protest in Atlanta, oil industry relinquishment of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas exploration blocks, and new federal protections and cancelled drilling leases of Alaska arctic lands.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, September 6, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Nobel laureate Al Gore talking about global solutions and fossil fuel industry political and financial obstacles to the environmental and climate crisis.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on an Oregon oil ship blockade and Portland city government compromises enabling the Zenith Energy oil train terminal, inland Northwest gas pipeline expansion eastbound profits and protests, a British Columbia medical community call for a moratorium on methane gas development causing increased wildfires and illness, state of California endorsement of a fossil fuels non-proliferation treaty, and federal agency suspension of a Trump administration rule allowing liquefied natural gas rail transport.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel 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, August 30, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on unaddressed toxic emissions from southwest Idaho gas facilities, the one-year anniversary of suspended wetland damage permits for an Idaho highway expansion, a Spokane totem pole journey stop and blessing honoring Leonard Peltier, north Idaho rain relief from regional wildfires and a filed objection to a winter recreation vehicle forest plan, eastern Idaho meetings on potential nuclear waste storage, coastal dangers and Seattle protests of Japan release of Fukushima radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean, Washington rules to protect refinery workers and communities, New York City and nationwide climate marches to end fossil fuels, and a proposed sulfide mine and water protector trials around the Minnesota Line 3 tar sands pipeline.  Broadcast for eleven 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 fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →