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Climate Justice Forum: Port of Vancouver Oil Terminal Lease, Youth Climate Change Lawsuit, & Earth Week Events 4-13-16

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The Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) discusses the Port of Vancouver Commission hearing on a Tesoro Savage oil terminal lease amendment, a federal court decision allowing a climate change lawsuit brought by 21 youths to proceed, and upcoming Earth Week events including a WIRT Sandpoint office-warming party, Earth Day Spokane 2016, and a panel discussion about civil disobedience against coal and oil trains.  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.

April 13-14: Bill McKibben at WSU, May 13-15: Anacortes Break Free Action!

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April 13-14: Bill McKibben at WSU

Climate movement leader, educator, and author Bill McKibben is speaking twice for Humanities Week at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman [1]. In the wake of well-attended screenings and panel discussions of the global climate activism documentary This Changes Everything in Moscow and Sandpoint in late March, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and regional allies anticipate that McKibben can further mobilize inland Northwest residents to participate in the 350.org-initiated Break Free from Fossil Fuels mass action in Anacortes, Washington, in mid-May [2]. WIRT is calling on you and all volunteers to assist with distributing the attached quarter-sheet flyers outside both WSU events, to recruit more involvement in the already hundreds-strong Break Free Pacific Northwest demonstration of fossil fuel resistance: Please contact WIRT if you can help.

April 13: Humanities Week keynote address: ‘The Human Element in Nature: From Harm to Hope’ at 5:30 pm on Wednesday in the CUB senior ballroom

April 14: Foley Institute Coffee and Politics talk: ‘Report from the Front Lines of Climate Change’ at noon on Thursday in Bryan Hall 308

May 13-15: Anacortes Break Free Action

“We are in a kind of climate emergency now,” struggling to stay below 1.5°C of warming, to avoid radical climate destabilization [3]. No current policies keep us anywhere near this goal: We are barreling towards double that temperature, leaving us with a broken world. This has to change, and we have to lead: We have to Break Free from Fossil Fuels! [4] This global climate movement initiative aims to shut down the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects and support the most ambitious climate solutions.

In the Northwest, we are breaking free by taking on the region’s biggest carbon bomb: the Shell and Tesoro refineries at March Point in northern Washington. Combined, these facilities refine 47 percent of all the gasoline and diesel consumed in the region, and produce the largest, unaddressed point source of carbon pollution in the Northwest. They are an integral part of the system that we must change – within years, not decades.

Join us for regional mobilization and a mass action outside these refineries on May 13, 14, and 15, to demand that we Break Free from Big Oil and speed up a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy. By land and by sea, we will stage creative and inspirational sit-ins, blockades, and kayaktivism. For people who prefer to not engage in civil disobedience, support roles and general opportunities for participation are essential to this action. WIRT and allied carpoolers, caravaners, and protesters risking arrest or not are traveling from Missoula, Moscow/Pullman, Sandpoint, and Spokane to Anacortes for this Break Free Pacific Northwest mass action. Continue reading →

Climate Justice Forum: Henry Willard, Jeanne McHale, & Eric Molina 3-30-16

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The Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes in the KRFP studio Henry Willard and core WIRT activist Jeanne McHale, of the Moscow blues-based rock and roll band Henry C and the Willards, and Eric Molina of the Pullman seven-piece, reggae/ska band Landrace, composed of Washington State University jazz students.  Both bands and nationally acclaimed folk musician Ivy Ross Ricci are playing a benefit concert for the Fifth Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide this Saturday, April 2, between 7 pm and 12 midnight in the 1912 Center Great Room in Moscow.  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.

Fifth Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide

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April 2 anniversary concert benefits climate activist collective

Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) is celebrating its March 31 fifth anniversary as a dedicated, regional, climate activist collective that confronts the root causes and perpetrators of climate change through direct actions and locally organized solutions. We invite and welcome everyone to share this milestone at the Fifth Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide, a benefit concert provided by three bands along with WIRT-hosted potluck dinner and desert, beer and wine for purchase, dozens of silent auction items donated by community members and businesses, and a background slide show of WIRT demonstrations and initiatives.  This yearly fundraising party offers some radical revelry for participants supporting relentless, volunteer WIRT activism among and in solidarity with frontline communities of fossil fuel resistance and an international, grassroots network of activists.

WIRT’s amazing members, friends, and allies eagerly anticipate a lively musical and social gathering between 7 pm and 12 midnight on Saturday, April 2, in the 1912 Center Great Room at 412 East Third Street in Moscow, Idaho. For $5 or greater voluntary admission donations, with no one turned away, please join dirty energy resisters for a well-deserved, reinvigorating, wild evening full of shared camaraderie, spirited conversation, exuberant dancing, good food and drink, and live music played by these remarkable visiting and resident songwriters and performers: Continue reading →

This Changes Everything Screenings & Panel Discussions in Moscow & Sandpoint

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Several grassroots, northern Idaho groups are co-hosting screenings and panel discussions of This Changes Everything at 7 pm on Tuesday evening, March 29, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 South Main Street in Moscow, and at 7 pm on the following evening, Wednesday, March 30, in the Little Panida Theater, 300 North First Avenue in Sandpoint [1, 2].  Inspired by Naomi Klein’s fourth, September 2014, internationally bestselling, non-fiction book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus the Climate, this independent, environmental documentary directed by Avi Lewis asks, “What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world?”

The provocative, compelling, 2015 film aims to empower, not scare, moviegoers into answering its call to action. Accessible to even the most climate change-fatigued viewers, This Changes Everything refreshes and inspires, as it reflects on the kinds of relationships and lives we have and envision, and why the climate crisis is at the center of it all.

Filmed over 211 days in nine countries and five continents during four years, This Changes Everything explores and re-imagines the epic, vast challenge of climate change.  It presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the frontlines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta tar sands, from the coast of south India to Beijing and beyond.  Naomi Klein’s narration interweaves these stories of struggle: “I’ve spent six years wandering through the wreckage caused by the carbon in the air, and the economic system that put it there.” Continue reading →

Climate Justice Forum: Idaho Oil & Gas Industry Meltdown, Sanders Rallies & Wins, Northwest Break Free Events 3-23-16

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The Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) discusses Idaho oil and gas legislation, resistance, and industry melt-down, Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign rallies and victories in Idaho, Utah, and Spokane, the fifth annual WIRT celebration, and upcoming documentaries, workshops, and demonstrations supporting a massive Northwest Break Free direct action in Anacortes, Washington, this May.  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: Jordan Cove LNG Port, Pacific Connector Pipeline, Otter Creek Coal Mine, & Atlantic Oil Drilling Stopped! 3-16-16

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The Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) discusses Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denial of the Pacific Connector pipeline across southern Oregon and the associated Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas export terminal in Coos Bay, Arch Coal withdrawal of its applications to mine Powder River Basin coal at Otter Creek, Montana, the Obama administration ban of drilling on the Atlantic U.S. coast, Idaho citizen resistance to Senate Bill 1339 approval by Governor Otter, and the Northwest Break Free mass action in Anacortes, Washington, this May.  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: Matthew Fuller, Presidential Candidate Energy Positions, & Idaho Senate Bill 1339 3-9-16

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The Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features an interview with Matthew Fuller, who occupied the anchor chain of a Shell Arctic drilling support ship with Chiara D’Angelo during Memorial Day weekend 2015.  Matthew talks about his blockade experience and associated Coast Guard hearings using the climate change necessity defense. The show also discusses and airs footage of Democrat presidential candidate positions on dirty energy and Idaho oil and gas Senate Bill 1339 and its public resistance. 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 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: Idaho Oil & Gas Bill & Protest, Shell Arctic Drilling Blockader Hearings 3-2-16

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The Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) discusses upcoming, regional, climate activism opportunities, Idaho oil and gas Senate Bill 1339 and resistance to its restricted public participation processes, and Coast Guard hearings employing the climate change necessity defense of Shell Arctic drilling ship blockaders.  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 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: Idaho Senate Oil & Gas Bill Hearing & Protest 2-24-16

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The Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) discusses southwest Idaho oil and gas legislation and a subsequent protest and rejected fossil fuel infrastructure on the Columbia River, and airs excerpts of oral testimony during a recent committee hearing on Idaho Senate Bill 1339 that would limit the public participation processes of oil and gas development proposals.  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 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.