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.

On the Monday, July 16, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists talk with Gary Macfarlane, anti-megaload ally and ecosystem defense director of the Moscow, Idaho-based wildland/wildlife conservation organization Friends of the Clearwater.  Gary discusses the history and trajectory of ongoing regional endeavors in state and federal courts to bar Alberta tar sands equipment transports in the wild and scenic river corridor along Highway 12 in Idaho and on Montana rural roads.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow live at 92.5 FM or online every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT for regional and continent-wide climate activism news and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

On the Monday, July 9, 2012, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists heartily welcome Leah Marsters, a clean energy associate with Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG), who championed with a half-dozen conservation organizations the first statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) by natural gas companies.  Leah discusses the background and evolution of this successful campaign and the influence of the groundbreaking Vermont law on fracking restrictions in other jurisdictions.  The show, originally broadcast between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online at KRFP Radio Free Moscow, also covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news.  Listen to an edited recording of the July 9 Climate Justice Forum posted in Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

The Monday, July 2, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features WIRT activist Zach Johnson, arrested by Moscow and Idaho State Police for riding his bicycle a few feet into Main Street on October 6 during the Bikes Not Bitumen critical mass anti-megaload protest.  We discuss his experiences during eight months of Moscow demonstrations and subsequent legal proceedings as well as the recent Moscow City Council decision to authorize expenditures of megaload hauler Mammoet’s reimbursements for Moscow police officer overtime on riot gear.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow live at 92.5 FM or online every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT for regional and continent-wide climate activism news and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.  Radio4All hosts an edited recording of the July 2 Climate Justice Forum.

On the Monday, June 25, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) enthusiastically welcomes Eriel Deranger, the Edmonton-based communications coordinator for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations.  Eriel discusses the Third Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray on August 4 and the impacts of Alberta tar sands operations on indigenous land and health.  We also talk about ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil’s recent decision to withdraw its permit applications to use Highway 12 and Montana rural roads for its tar sands equipment transports to Alberta.  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 June 25 Climate Justice Forum at Radio4All and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ.

Within opening and closing regional and national climate activism news, the Monday, June 18, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) will feature a recorded Alternative Radio talk by Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Canada’s Mordor, previously broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow on Sunday, June 3.  Listen to KRFP every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT and adopt WIRT as your DJ.

The Monday, June 11, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) will cover a half-hour of regional and national climate activism news followed by a recording of coal export issue presentations offered by Missoula and Portland participants in the Northwest Extraction Resistance Workshop last weekend, June 8 and 9, in Spokane.  Workshop trainer Bill Moyer of Backbone Campaign will join us by phone at 8:30 pm, to describe his organization’s artful and theatrical demonstrations and props.  Terry Hill of Occupy Spokane will talk at 9 pm about Spokane anti-megaload protests and the Lilac City’s occupy movement and clubhouse.  Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow online or at 92.5 FM between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT every Monday and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

On Monday, June 4, the Climate Justice Forum program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) will feature Sharon Cousins of Viola, a founding leader of our collective that confronts climate change through direct action.  Sharon will discuss clean and sustainable alternatives to dirty energy enterprises like tar sands, coal, and natural gas extraction.  She will also talk about the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and how citizens can actively influence energy and environmental conundrums for the sake of future life on Earth.  Please adopt WIRT as your DJ, as we also cover other climate activism news between 7:30 and 9 pm PDT, live at 92.5 FM and online at KRFP Radio Free Moscow.