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Spokane Democracy School

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Please do not miss the Spokane Democracy School on Friday evening, April 6, and Saturday, April 7, described in the following message from Kai Huschke, who taught the Moscow Democracy School Workshop on March 23 and 24.  A video and website of its Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund instructors also reveal the crucial value of these sessions that empower citizens to institute their rights over corporate privilege.  Several Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists who participated in the Moscow workshop and are preparing to launch a Latah County community bill of rights will carpool to Spokane for the weekend training, departing Moscow on Friday, April 6, at 3 pm or earlier.  If you plan to attend the Spokane Democracy School, please contact Kai at kai@celdf.org, to reserve your spot, and WIRT at wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com or 208-301-8039, to arrange Moscow carpools and Spokane lodging.  (Also listen to Kai on the March 29 and upcoming podcast of Democracy Matters. Continue reading →

Climate Justice Forum: Alma Hasse & Tina Fisher 4-2-12

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On the Monday evening, April 2, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted online and on-the-air by Wild Idaho Rising Tide organizers between 7:30 and 9 pm Pacific time, we talked again with anti-fracking activists Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher of Payette County, Idaho.  They discussed resident initiatives to counter emerging natural gas exploitation recently facilitated by industry bills and state rules enacted by the Idaho legislature and governor.  Alma also described the conflicts of interest and disregard of constituents’ concerns among myriad state legislators, agency personnel, and county officials.  Listen to an excerpt of our conversation, Little Regulation of Payette County Fracking Near Homes Expected, between 20:50 and 13:29 on the Tuesday, April 3, KRFP Radio Free Moscow Evening Report, Climate Change.  WIRT intends to edit the sound quality of all of the Climate Justice Forums and post links to each broadcast on our website.

First Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide

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All are welcome at the First Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), a Moscow group whose exuberant activism confronts the root causes of climate change.  On Saturday, March 31, WIRT’s one-year anniversary, revel in a benefit concert by Jeanne McHale and Corn Mash along with a potluck, beer and wine, and a slide show and videos to savor successes.  Participate in a parade through downtown with the Moscow Volunteer Peace Band, gathering by 7 pm in Friendship Square and joining the festivities at the 1912 Center Great Room at 412 East Third Street in Moscow, Idaho.  For $5 or greater voluntary admission/raffle donations, enjoy home-cooked food and no-host drinks provided by community members and businesses from 7 pm until midnight, politically-charged music by Jeanne McHale and friends between 7:30 and 8:30 pm, and the invigorating, danceable songs of Corn Mash from 9 pm to midnight.  For further information or to offer event support, contact wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com or 208-301-8039.

Thanks to a member’s donation of 40 off-white, large T-shirts, WIRT will offer the displayed limited edition, collectors’ item design at our First Annual Celebration on Saturday, March 31.  We have reserved complimentary shirts for each of the 12 arrestees and the rest for purchase by Moscow area protesters, to be worn as honorable badges of intense, shared courage and history.  After vigilant activists deservedly receive the originals, we may print a second batch of megaload protest or organizational logo T-shirts, so please contact WIRT soon to request some of these $20 shirts.

Climate Justice Forum: Dirty Energy Activists 3-26-12

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The Monday, March 26, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) will feature local activists talking about Moscow and Spokane Democracy Schools led by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, resulting initiatives, and YOUR insights on dirty energy resistance in Moscow and beyond.  Please call 208-892-9200 between 7:30 and 9:00 pm PDT, as we also cover news about recent tar sands protests in Cushing, Oklahoma, and Vancouver, British Columbia, and upcoming actions in Spokane, Helena, and elsewhere.  Listen to the show online at KRFP Radio Free Moscow or at 92.5 FM and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!

Climate Justice Forum: Lowell Chandler & Jace Bylenga 3-19-12

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On the Monday, March 19, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists will talk with Lowell Chandler of the Blue Skies group in Missoula, Montana, and Jace Bylenga of Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper in Sandpoint, Idaho, about the impacts of coal trains bound for Asian export at West Coast ports on the residents, land, water, and air along the tracks as well as ongoing citizen initiatives to stop proposed increases in train traffic. Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow at 92.5 FM or online between 7:30 and 9 pm Pacific time and sponsor WIRT as you Adopt a DJ for only $10 per month.

Moscow Democracy School Workshop

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Without public consent, how can officials “permit” industrial processes and pollution that destroy pristine land, clean water, and shared infrastructure?  Democracy Schools offered by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) examine how the American constitution has been reinterpreted and laws enacted to shift power from real people to “corporate persons.”  Learn why large businesses have gained and seemingly possess more civil rights than the communities they overrule and impact, which often lack the authority to reject unfavorable development projects.  Discover how people from Maine to Washington are working through their municipal governments to legally enforce economic and environmental sustainability.  Explore next steps for passing city or county laws to expand protections for people and places, lives and livelihoods.

Organizer Kai Huschke of CELDF in Spokane will lead the Moscow Democracy School Workshop discussing remedies to state and federal government enforcement of corporate rights to extract natural and financial resources from citizens and communities in Idaho and across the country.  Please RSVP and register to participate in this timely, pro-active seminar held in the 1912 Center Fiske Room at 412 East Third Street in Moscow between 6:00 and 8:30 pm on Friday, March 23, and from 9 am until noon on Saturday, March 24.  To cover presenter work, travel, venue, and materials costs, we are requesting a $15 registration donation upon arrival for the entire two-day-minimum session.  Similar to workshops provided in Bellingham, Washington, where an anti-coal export train initiative has emerged, and in Washington County, Idaho, where strong natural gas facility regulations have developed, further descriptions and the Two-Day Democracy School Agenda for the Moscow Democracy School Workshop are available on the Wild Idaho Rising Tide and CELDF websites.  Kai encourages participants who would like to further lead the campaigns that arise from the Moscow workshop to attend the more comprehensive Democracy School in Spokane on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7.

Climate Justice Forum: Brent Rowley & Ellie Smith 3-12-12

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On the Monday, March 12, Climate Justice Forum hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide between 7:30 and 9:00 pm PDT on KRFP Radio Free Moscow, we will feature Brent Rowley of Northern Rockies Rising Tide talking about regional activism against the tar sands as well as Moscow-visiting Australian activist Ellie Smith speaking about coal extraction in her country and Appalachian mountain top removal opposed by Mountain Justice.  Hear about other regional dirty energy projects and resistance, too, at 92.5 FM or online!

Climate Justice Forum: Pat Monger, Jeanne McHale, & Emily Stock 3-5-12

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On the March 5 broadcast of Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s Climate Justice Forum radio program, we will feature activists Pat Monger and Jeanne McHale, who linked arms and sat with Cass Davis and Jim Prall, whom police arrested for blocking megaloads of a tar sands upgrader plant traversing Washington Street in Moscow on Sunday, March 4.  We will also talk with Emily Stock of Canyon Country Rising Tide in Moab, Utah, about resistance to already permitted tar sands mining and processing projects near Arches and Canyonlands national parks.  Please listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow at 92.5 FM or online, between 7:30 and 9 pm PST every Monday, as we cover news about regional and national dirty energy projects and associated grassroots resistance.

Idaho Fracking Forum Recording: Part 2

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KRFP Radio Free Moscow recently posted the second part of the Idaho Fracking Forum recorded on February 11 at the Hamilton Indoor Recreation Center in Moscow.  Sponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition, Palouse Group Sierra Club, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide, the public discussion addressed the policy and science of newly emerging natural gas industry practices in Idaho.  Panel speakers included southern Idaho anti-fracking activists Liz Amason and Amanda Buchanan, University of Idaho hydrogeologist Jerry Fairley, Kai Huschke of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, and Idaho Representative Tom Trail of Moscow.  State Senator Dan Schmidt of Moscow and several visiting and resident audience members also contributed to the conversation.  Please see Idaho Fracking Forum for more information about the forum and listen to Idaho Fracking Forum Part 2.

Climate Justice Forum: John Wolverton & Kyla Wiens 2-27-12

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This Monday, February 27, Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s weekly broadcast and audio-streamed Climate Justice Forum radio program will host John Wolverton of the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club and Kyla Wiens of the Montana Environmental Information Center in a conversation about their court case with Missoula County and the National Wildlife Federation, the repercussions of Judge Dayton’s decision, and the future of our regional resistance to tar sands heavy hauls by several companies.  Please listen between 7:30 and 9 pm PST every Monday to KRFP Radio Free Moscow, as we cover regional and national dirty energy news and grassroots resistance.