The Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features news about a Highway 12 megaload mediation settlement and inconsistent state rules moving through the Idaho House, Idaho Legislature considerations of oil and gas rules and a climate change hearing, and a City of Hoquiam permit, Washington Department of Ecology report, and Swinomish Tribe and Spokane lawsuits addressing Washington oil trains and terminals. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
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Climate Justice Forum: Five-Year Anniversary Celebration Re-Air of Interviews with Alma Hasse & Brooklyn Baptiste 1-25-17
The Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, celebrates five years of covering continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects by re-airing two interviews with activists in Idaho. Alma Hasse of Citizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability has actively opposed oil and gas development in Payette County, Idaho, for six years and accomplished a week-long, wrongfully-jailed hunger strike refuting local government conflicts of interest in October 2014. Brooklyn Baptiste, former Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee member, led and participated in four-night blockades of Alberta tar sands megaloads on U.S. Highway 12 through the reservation and treaty lands in August 2013. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show thanks the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Idaho Oil & Gas Forced Pooling Hearing, Regional Trump Inauguration Protests, Court Blocking of Grays Harbor Oil Terminal, Dakota Access Pipeline Lawsuit, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson Hearings 1-18-17
The Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features updates on the December 14 hearing on applications forcing Fruitland, Idaho property owners to lease their oil and gas, information about upcoming, regional marches protesting the Trump presidential inauguration, and news about Standing Rock Sioux and allied opposition of the Dakota Access pipeline, a Washington Supreme Court decision blocking the last, proposed, Grays Harbor oil train terminal, and Congressional hearings on the Trump nomination of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as U.S. Secretary of State. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Dakota Access, Trans-Pecos, & Sabal Trail Pipeline Resistance, Nez Perce Tribe Rejection of Wells Fargo, Pre-Legislative Idaho Oil & Gas Talks, Columbia Gorge Rail Expansion Lawsuit 1-11-17
The Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features an Al Jazeera report on Standing Rock Sioux and other indigenous opposition to fossil fuel extraction and transportation, and news about Nez Perce Tribe rejection of Wells Fargo business ties, pre-legislative session discussions of Idaho oil and gas development, a Union Pacific lawsuit over locally blocked Columbia River Gorge rail expansion, and updates on indigenous and allied resistance camps and campaigns against the Trans-Pecos pipeline in Texas and the Sabal Trail pipeline in Florida. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Move Your Money Out Demonstration in Sandpoint, Last Northwest Coal Terminal Rejection, Idaho & Washington Train Derailments, Dakota Access Pipeline Investor & Court Decisions, Alberta Tar Sands Health Impacts & Developer Transition 1-4-17
The Wednesday, January 4, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features a livestream recording of the Move Your Money Out demonstration in Sandpoint, Idaho, against Wells Fargo and US Bank pipeline funding, and news about Washington state agency rejection of the last proposed Northwest coal export terminal, train derailments near Boise, Idaho, and Vancouver, Washington, Dakota Access pipeline investor reticence and a declined construction injunction, and Alberta tar sands health impacts and a developer transition to wind farms. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Thunderstorm Blizzard, Firewood Drive, & Move Your Money Protests, Fukushima Radiation in West Coast Fish 12-28-16
The Wednesday, December 28, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features updates on the Christmas thunderstorm blizzard at the Dakota Access pipeline resistance camps and information about a regional Standing Rock firewood drive and Move Your Money protests of Wells Fargo and US Bank pipeline funding, a Greenpeace direct action camp in Florida, Fukushima radiation contamination of West Coast fish, and a tar sands pipeline valve turner call to climate activism. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Winter Solstice Celebration, Dakota Access Pipeline Resisters & Trials, Sabal Trail Pipeline Opposition, Payette County Forced Pooling Hearing, Russian Arctic Oil & Trump’s Election, & U.S. & Canadian Bans of Arctic & Atlantic Drilling 12-21-16
The Wednesday, December 21, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features information about Winter Solstice and its celebration in Sandpoint and news about Dakota Access pipeline resisters and court outcomes in North Dakota, Sabal Trail pipeline opposition in Florida, an oil and gas forced pooling hearing in Boise, potential oil and gas development in the Russian Arctic, and U.S. and Canadian bans of fossil fuel drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Energy Crossroads Community Forum, Dakota Access Pipeline Court Outcomes, Payette County Forced Pooling Protest & Hearing, BNSF Grant to Bonner County Emergency Responders 12-14-16
The Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features a recording of the Energy Crossroads Community Forum, held by Northwest groups on November 30 in Spokane, and news about Dakota Access pipeline court outcomes and resistance in North Dakota, a hearing on Texas oil and gas company applications to force pool the fossil fuel resources of 157 Payette County property owners in Boise, and a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway grant to Bonner County Emergency Medical Services in Sandpoint. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Al Chidester on Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance, Tar Sands Pipeline Valve Turners at Moscow Forum, Idaho Oil & Gas Forced Pooling Meeting & Protest, & Canadian Approval of Tar Sands Pipelines 12-7-16
The Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, welcomes KRFP board chair and WIRT core activist Al Chidester talking about Dakota Access pipeline resistance, and airs excerpts from a December 4, Moscow forum on civil disobedience led by four tar sands pipeline valve turners. We also share news about a Payette County meeting and upcoming Boise protest opposing Alta Mesa applications to force pool the oil and gas resources of 157 Idahoans, and about Canadian approval of two pipelines bringing one million barrels of tar sands per day into the U.S. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide fossil fuel resistance and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Moscow & Sandpoint Host Tar Sands Pipeline Valve Turners
Tar Sands Pipeline Valve Turners: Civil Disobedience
Featuring Leonard Higgins in person and Emily Johnston, Michael Foster, and Ken Ward via Skype
Saturday, December 3, 12 pm to 2 pm, in Eichardt’s Pub upstairs room, 212 Cedar Street, Sandpoint, Idaho
Sunday, December 4, 12 pm to 2 pm, in the 1912 Center Fiske Room, 412 E. Third Street, Moscow, Idaho
Public forums and fundraisers co-hosted by #ShutItDown – Climate Direct Action and Wild Idaho Rising Tide
$10 suggested donation for the #ShutItDown legal defense fund
All ages of participants and free admission are welcome.
On October 11, 2016, five brave climate organizers successfully closed the manual, emergency valves of five pipelines carrying oil from the Canadian tar sands into the northern United States [1, 2]. Their unprecedented acts of nonviolent direct action to avert climate cataclysm shut down 15 percent of U.S. crude oil imports for nearly a day.
Emily Johnston, age 50, and retired attorney Annette Klapstein, 64, each interrupted Enbridge’s Lines 4 and 67 pipelines in Leonard, Minnesota. Michael Foster, 52, shut down TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota. Leonard Higgins, 64, who locked down to a tar sands megaload in Umatilla in December 2013, halted the flow of Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline at Coal Banks Landing near Great Falls, Montana. Ken Ward, 59, a Climate Disobedience Center and #ShutItDown co-founder, stopped Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline in Anacortes, Washington. Continue reading
