On the Monday, September 17, 2012, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) again welcomes Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, talking about the Global Frackdown! demonstration in Boise on Saturday, September 22, citizen concerns about impending natural gas fracking, injection wells, and associated facilities, and upcoming initiatives to ban these toxic practices.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, and later aired on KMEC in Ukiah, California, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news.  Listen to an edited recording of the September 17 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On the Monday, September 10, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide welcomes Pat Rathmann of the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition, discussing her participation and reflections on the third annual Tar Sands Healing Walk hosted by First Nations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on August 4.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and resistance to tar sands pipeline spills in Alberta, Keystone XL pipeline construction in Texas, solar panel farms and  hydraulic fracturing on Western public lands, and oil drilling in Arctic waters.

The Monday, September 3, Climate Justice Forum radio program, hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features Ron Seifert, a climate activist and spokesperson for Tar Sands Blockade, describing the background and participants in the campaign against TransCanada’s construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in Oklahoma and Texas.  Ron discusses current issue developments including a recent direct action training workshop (the Texas Keystone Convergence), landowner lawsuit, protest actions, and opportunities and expectations for resolution of the situation.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and resistance to tar sands facilities in Alberta and British Columbia, coal infrastructure in Florida and Washington, and seismic testing and permits for natural gas production in Idaho.  Listen to an edited recording of the September 3 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s (WIRT) Monday, August 20, Climate Justice Forum radio program, we welcome Crystal Lameman, a Beaver Lake Cree First Nation activist and the Peace River tar sands campaigner for the Indigenous Environmental Network in Alberta, talking about current indigenous lawsuits against the Canadian provincial and federal governments and efforts to restore Native treaty rights and stop Alberta tar sands exploitation.  Blue Skies Campaign organizer and spokesperson Lowell Chandler of Missoula, Montana, describes August 12 to 20 Coal Export Action protests and activities at the Montana Capitol and in Helena as well as recent issue updates.  Broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news.  Listen to an edited recording of the August 20 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

The Monday, August 13, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features local activists talking about participation in the Third Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk at Fort McMurray, Alberta, the Coal Export Action in Helena, Montana, a fracking  protest in New York state, and other dirty energy resistance in Moscow, Idaho, and beyond.  Listen to the show online at KRFP Radio Free Moscow or at 92.5 FM between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, as we cover news about climate activism and upcoming actions across the continent, and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On the Monday, August 6, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) hosts core WIRT activist extraordinaire Rob Briggs of Pullman, Washington, discussing climate change considerations and his August 2011 Washington DC arrest in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.  Originally broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers continent-wide climate activism news, as WIRT returns from the Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta.  Listen to an edited recording of the August 6 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On the Monday, July 30, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) welcomes Henia Belalia, director of Peaceful Uprising, and Ashley Sanders, local coordinator and national steering committee member of Move to Amend, both of Salt Lake City.  Henia and Ashley discuss demonstrations at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference, political prisoner recognition on the first anniversary of Tim DeChristopher’s incarceration, and Move to Amend’s Thursday Utah Supreme Court hearing about its city ballot resolution denouncing corporate personhood and monetary political influence.  Southwestern Idaho activists Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher also talk about their participation in last week’s Stop the Frack Attack lobbying and 5000-person protest in Washington DC as well as looming seismic testing and extraction of natural gas near Payette.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, as the show covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news, and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s (WIRT) Monday, July 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program, we gratefully talk with Jesse Cardinal, downriver coordinator for Keepers of the Athabasca in Alberta and co-organizer of the Third Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk at Fort McMurray, and Greg Mack, lead activist of Northern Rockies Earth First! in Moscow, Idaho.  Jesse discusses the August 4 spiritual journey and First Nations resistance to tar sands exploitation, and Greg recounts the first ever suspension of a hydraulic fracturing drilling operation in the U.S., in response to a July 8 EF! blockade in a Pennsylvania state forest.  Originally broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news.  Listen to an edited recording of the July 23 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.