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Climate Justice Forum: Herb Goodwin on Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Support & Arrest, Idaho Transportation Board Rules for Highway 12 Megaloads, Olympia Stand Blockade of Bakken Fracking Sand Train, Missouri River Pipeline Drilling & Police Brutality, & Upcoming, Inland Northwest Events 11-23-16

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The Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features an interview with Bellingham-based, core WIRT activist Herb Goodwin about his participation and arrest at Dakota Access pipeline resistance camps and actions.  We also share news about Idaho Transportation Board-approved rules for Highway 12 megaloads, the week-long blockade of a Bakken fracking sand train from the Port of Olympia, Missouri River tunnel drilling and police brutality along the Dakota Access pipeline route, and upcoming, inland Northwest presentations, forums, and solidarity actions.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, live 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: Coal Train Pollution Settlement, Lewiston Oversize Loads, Grays Harbor Oil Terminal Deadline, Bellingham & Olympia Rail Blockades, Halted DAPL Construction 11-16-16

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The Wednesday, November 16, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide features news about a federal court settlement on coal train pollution of Washington waterways, proposed Idaho Transportation Department rules for Highway 12 megaloads, Clearwater Paper oversize loads moving from the Port of Lewiston, last public chances to stop a Grays Harbor oil-by-rail terminal, Bellingham and Olympia rail blockades of fossil fuel trains, and anti-Dakota Access pipeline solidarity actions and halted construction near the Missouri River.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, live 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. ~Helen

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Climate Justice Forum: Megaload-Built Tar Sands Mine Closures, Grays Harbor Oil Terminal, BNSF Coal Train Dust Trial, NoDAPL Solidarity Actions 11-9-16

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The Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide features news about the closure or abandonment of two Alberta tar sands extraction operations built by Northwest megaloads, the last opportunities for public input on a Grays Harbor oil-by-rail terminal, a federal court trial of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway polluting Northwest waterways with coal dust and particles, and upcoming solidarity actions demanding a halt of Dakota Access pipeline construction under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Reservation.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PST, live 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: Public Input on NW Coal & Oil Terminal Proposals, Federal Court Ruling on Coal Dust in NW Waterways, Militarized Assaults on Standing Rock Water Protectors 11-2-16

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The Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide features updates on the last opportunities for public input on Northwest coal and oil terminal proposals, a federal court ruling that coal dust and particles pollute Northwest waterways, militarized assaults and arrests of Standing Rock Lakota and allied water protectors in the path of Dakota Access pipeline construction, and other regional fossil fuel resistance topics.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism 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: Larry Hildes on Dropped Coal Train Blockade Charges, Ziggy Siegfried on 140 NoDAPL Arrests, Additional Northwest Coal Trains, & Idaho Oil and Gas Lease Auction Protest 10-26-16

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The Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide features a conversation with attorney Larry Hildes about dismissed charges by the City of Bellingham and Whatcom County against three Chuckanut Bay, Washington coal train blockaders, and an interview with Spokane climate and environmental activist Ziggy Siegfried, who observed the 140 arrests of Standing Rock Lakota and allied water protectors near the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota last Saturday.  We also discuss the current rail transport diversion of 11 additional, weekly, Northwest coal trains from the dropped Boardman, Oregon terminal proposal to a Vancouver, B.C. coal export facility, and the Third Idaho Oil and Gas Lease Auction Protest at the Idaho Department of Lands in Boise.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

Red Power Energy Screening & Discussion

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Red Power Energy Screening & Discussion

7 pm, Thursday, October 27

Little Panida Theater

300 North First Avenue, Sandpoint, Idaho

Support for Standing Rock Sioux legal defense fund

Discussion with Kalispel Tribe members & canoeists

Suggested $5 or more admission donation

Across the American West, indigenous tribes are grappling with the dilemma of balancing development of energy resources on their ancestral homelands with sustaining their traditional beliefs of respect and care for the Earth. Previously the victims of environmental degradation and federal mismanagement, Native people are in the midst of an extraordinary resurgence within the current, controversial, energy and climate change debate.  Many tribes are challenging long-held stereotypes, asserting their sovereign rights to control their lands, and implementing strategies to develop their natural and mineral resources without further disrupting their environment.  As microcosms of conflicts between progress and tradition, between the material needs of today and the potentially negative consequences of tomorrow, American Indian reservations hold ten percent of potential renewable energy, 20 percent of known oil and gas reserves, and 30 percent of the coal reserves in the United States west of the Mississippi River.  As demands for energy increase, so does the pursuit of untapped resources, both below and above the ground.

Among Washington coastal tribes, the Lummi Nation has victoriously opposed the massive Gateway Pacific coal train and export terminal at Cherry Point, while the Swinomish Indian tribal community has successfully resisted a Shell oil-by-rail unloading facility at an Anacortes refinery. Both tribes have effectively stopped proposed fossil fuel projects through legal challenges protecting their treaty rights and with supportive community participation in public processes, rallies, marches, rail blockades, and intertribal networking.  But the litigation and direct actions of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies continue, through efforts to protect their water and land for future generations from Dakota Access pipeline construction and operation impacts.  Tunneling from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois, this Bakken oil pipeline would cross under the Missouri River upstream of their reservation in North Dakota, polluting their drinking water sources and threatening their burial grounds and sacred sites.  Symbolizing the ongoing Native struggle between tradition and progress, this fossil fuel project has galvanized thousands of Indians from over 200 tribes to gather with the Standing Rock Sioux in peaceful and prayerful resistance along the pipeline route near the Cannonball River.

Sponsored by the Idaho Mythweaver and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), a public screening of the new documentary Red Power Energy and an indigenous-led discussion of Dakota Access pipeline opposition together serve as a fundraiser for the Standing Rock Sioux legal defense fund, with suggested theater admission donations of $5 or more.  Immediately after the one-hour film, showing at 7 pm on Thursday, October 27, at the Little Panida Theater (300 North First Avenue, Sandpoint, Idaho), members of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians will speak about their participation in the Standing Rock convergence and in a multi-tribal protest where they paddled their traditional dugout canoe on the Missouri River from Bismarck, North Dakota, to the Cannonball River confluence. Continue reading →

Climate Justice Forum: Nez Perce Activist Gary Dorr Presentation & Dakota Access Pipeline Resister Interviews 10-19-16

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The Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide features an October 18 talk by Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) activist and General Council Chairman Gary Dorr about Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline resistance, Highway 12 megaload opposition, and other indigenous environmental issues.  We also share interviews with frontline tribal activists protecting waters and lands from the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, including Debra Gonette, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, and Kelly Love.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism 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: Blockade of Five Tar Sands Pipelines, ITD Highway 12 Megaload Rules, Upcoming Oil & Gas Lease Auction Protest, Abandoned Shell Oil-by-Rail Facility Proposal 10-12-16

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The Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) shares news about a blockade of all five western U.S. tar sands pipelines, the comment deadline for proposed Idaho Transportation Department rules on Highway 12 megaloads, an upcoming, fifth, oil and gas lease auction protest in Boise, Shell’s abandonment of an Anacortes oil-by-rail offloading facility proposal, and Sandpoint events supporting Standing Rock tribal and allied Dakota Access Pipeline resistance.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.

Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition Benefit Concert with Tom Neilson

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Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition Benefit Concert with Tom Neilson

7 pm, Saturday, October 8

Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse,

420 East Second Street, Moscow, Idaho

$10 suggested admission donation

Several north Idaho groups are co-hosting the Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition Benefit Concert, offered by singer-songwriter and long-time activist Tom Neilson, in Moscow on Saturday, October 8. Dubbed the Jon Stewart of folk music, Tom offers inspiration through his music to effect change [1].  He has performed his award-winning songs of humor and compassion in 21 countries on five continents.  His songs about historical and current events reflect his travels, intertwined with his farm roots and his fervent commitment to social justice.  Audiences celebrate Tom’s lyrics for their political astuteness, sophistication, and wit.

Concert co-sponsors Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESC) and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcome everyone to participate in this community event providing a gathering place for people supporting the legal expenses of the Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition (PRDC), of which PESC and WIRT are grassroots, allied, member organizations. On August 18, PRDC filed a legal complaint against the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) and the Federal Highway Administration in U.S. District Court for Idaho, challenging their environmental impact statement and record of decision issued for reconstructing, relocating, and expanding 6.5 miles of U.S. Highway 95 immediately south of Moscow [2-6].

Protecting nearby Paradise Ridge from inappropriate highway realignment since 2003, PRDC is disputing these agencies’ studies and selection of E-2, the easternmost of three proposed Highway 95 routes. ITD’s stubborn commitment to building the controversial E-2 route over the shoulder of Paradise Ridge threatens some of the best remnants of the estimated less than one percent of remaining, native, Palouse Prairie vegetation with weed invasion, wetland and prime farmland destruction, and wildlife habitat reduction.  The higher, 2,800- to 3,000-foot elevation of E-2 would subject highway travelers to more accidents during inclement and winter weather conditions, when 57 percent of mishaps on the current highway section occur, and would also risk more big game collisions closer to their habitat.

For this Saturday, October 8 opportunity for the Moscow-Pullman and greater Palouse community to support PRDC, the doors open at 6:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, 420 East Second Street in Moscow, Idaho. Activist musician Tom Neilson begins his performance at 7 pm, for $10 suggested admission donations.  See the enclosed descriptions of Tom Neilson’s background and Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition concerns, and peruse the websites and facebook pages of Tom, PRDC, PESC, and WIRT, for further information about these endeavors [1-5].

Please print and post the linked, color, letter-sized, PDF version of the Tom Neilson Moscow Concert Flyer (tom-neilson-moscow-concert-flyer), invite your friends and family through the email messages and website and facebook links about this event, participate in this Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition Benefit Concert, and enjoy the rousing music of Tom Neilson! Continue reading →

Climate Justice Forum: Second Spokane Fossil Fuel Train Blockade, Highway 12 Megaload Rules Hearings, Upcoming Benefit Concerts & State Oil & Gas Lease Auction Protest, & 200 Iowa Arrests of Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters 10-5-16

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The Wednesday, October 5, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by regional climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) shares news about a second Spokane blockade of BNSF oil trains by Veterans for Peace and Direct Action Spokane, statewide hearings on proposed Idaho Transportation Department rules for Highway 12 megaloads, upcoming benefit concerts and a state oil and gas lease auction protest, Spokane City Council support of the Standing Rock tribal and allied Dakota Access Pipeline resistance, and almost 200 arrests and attempted camp eviction of activists in Iowa stopping Dakota Access Pipeline construction under the Mississippi River.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.