On the Monday, April 30, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide, Joann Muneta will describe the recent evolution and resulting situation of Moscow Farmers Market non-profit tabling policies. Shane Stancik of the Silver Valley Community Resource Center in Kellogg, Idaho, will talk about tomorrow’s May Day protest against the Environmental Protection Agency’s deposit in a flooded Cataldo wetland of Superfund Site soils contaminated with lead and heavy metals. We will also broadcast the entire April 15 Hanford Rally speech of nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott and discuss upcoming Rising Tide and Occupy protests in Spokane and Chicago. Listen to KRFP Radio Free Moscow online or at 92.5 FM between 7:30 and 9 pm PDT and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!
Category Archives: Events
Climate Justice Forum: Allie Pfeiffer, Ellen Roskovich, & Jacki Vorhees 4-23-12
On the Monday, April 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide activists Allie Pfeiffer, Ellen Roskovich, and Jacki Vorhees will talk about dirty energy development impacts on Native Americans and rural residents in the Bakken oil shale fields in Montana and North Dakota and along the Northern Gateway pipeline in British Columbia. We will also discuss tar sands megaload traffic in Washington and protester awards and criticism in Idaho. Listen online or at 92.5 FM to KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:00 pm and adopt WIRT as your KRFP DJ!
Chaney to Announce Earth Day Awards
Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney will announce the recipients of the 2012 Mayor’s Earth Day awards at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 16, during the City Council meeting. The awards recognize Moscow residents for activities conducive to environmental sustainability.
For information, contact Jen Pfiffner at jpfiffner@ci.moscow.id.us or 208-883-7123.
(The Moscow-Pullman Daily News)
Climate Justice Forum: Brad Read & Cass Davis 4-9-12
On the Monday, April 9, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists will host Brad Read of Envision Spokane, who taught the Spokane Democracy School last weekend and has organized a city-wide coalition supporting 2009 and 2011 ballot initiatives instituting a community bill of rights. Cass Davis will read and talk about the statements that he and Jim Prall presented at their Friday sentencing for disturbing the peace of megaload traffic through Moscow, Idaho. Also hear a review of dirty energy projects and resistance by listening to KRFP Radio Free Moscow online or at 92.5 FM between 7:30 and 9:00 pm PDT and support progressive, volunteer radio by adopting WIRT as your KRFP DJ!
Sentencing Hearing of March 4 Megaload Blockaders
On Friday, April 6, at 1:00 pm, Cass Davis and Jim Prall will offer statements that describe their reasons for protesting and blocking three transports of tar sands processing equipment that traversed Moscow, Idaho, late on Sunday evening, March 4, 2012. Idaho state and Moscow city police arrested, jailed, and charged Cass and Jim for disturbing the peace at the intersection of Fourth and Washington streets. Represented by Dana Johnson of the Northern Rockies Justice Center, both defendants have pled guilty to their misdemeanors and will personally present their motives during their sentencing hearing before Judge John Judge in the Latah County Courthouse. The officially recorded session is open to the public and reporters, but normal courtroom policy disallows recording devices such as cameras and camcorders. Please join community members and friends at 1:00 pm on Friday afternoon for this hearing at 522 South Adams Street in Moscow. Continue reading
Spokane Democracy School
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
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
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
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
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.
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