The Wednesday, December 13, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a December 5 media conference held by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, discussing the destructive, controversial, Thacker Pass lithium mine and ongoing challenges by indigenous nations and allies across Nevada.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on Native advocate Jacob Johns of Spokane talking about global Indigenous Wisdom Keepers at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 28, two months after he was shot by a counter protester at a New Mexico prayer vigil, the first of three Alberta tar sands megaload transports and resulting electricity outages and protests in Montana and the Northwest, and a recent week of regional, torrential rain, snow melt, and floods.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, December 6, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a December 5 media conference held by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, discussing the destructive, controversial, Thacker Pass lithium mine and ongoing challenges by indigenous nations and allies across Nevada.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on Congressional legislation proposing billions of dollars of military aid to the right-wing extremist Israeli government perpetuating genocide of Palestinians, Montreal railway track blockades calling for an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza, and megaload transports causing electricity outages in southwestern Montana.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, November 29, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a media conference held by Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Columbia Riverkeeper attorney Audrey Leonard, talking about petitions for rehearing filed by West Coast states and a Northwest coalition, challenging federal approval of the GTN Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on the deadly international and Zionist dynamics of settler colonialism and resistance, double-long coal trains and Navajo mine-forced coal shipments crossing north Idaho and Washington, an elder blockade of Atlanta cop training center construction, and an extended public comment period on a court-ordered environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline opposition to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, November 22, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Will Wiltschko of the California Trade Justice Coalition and Scott Parkin of Green and Red Podcast talking about the week of protests organized by diverse movements against the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit convened by corporate billionaires and government leaders in the San Francisco Bay area last week.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on Israel environmental apartheid of Palestine lives, land, water, natural gas, and other resources and global solidarity with Palestinian resistance, Indigenous perspectives and rejection of the American Thanksgiving celebration, and a Northwest coalition legal challenge of federal approval of the GTN Xpress fracked methane pipeline expansion.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, November 15, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a Moscow, Idaho, march and rally opposing GTN Xpress fracked gas pipeline expansion, as part of multiple inland Northwest protests responding to federal approval of this TC Energy proposal.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a possibly radioactive, north Idaho train, illegal, toxic, unregulated emissions from southern Idaho oil and gas facilities, an Oregon liquefied natural gas truck tanker fire and burned driver, and the health consequences of extracting, transporting, and burning methane gas.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, November 8, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Columbia Riverkeeper attorney Audrey Leonard talking about the dangers of TC Energy’s proposed GTN Xpress fracked gas pipeline expansion and Northwest opposition actions and opportunities.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a Spokane community safety vigil and multiple inland Northwest protests responding to federal approval of GTN Xpress and an upcoming Spokane presentation to support an indigenous delegation to the COP28 climate talks, including shot Spokane activist and artist Jacob Johns.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community and tribal members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a Spokane candle light vigil, Seattle Times editorial, and multi-city inland Northwest protests opposing federal approval of GTN Xpress, updates from Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns shot in New Mexico, Wet’suwet’en land defender trials resulting from Coastal GasLink pipeline resistance in British Columbia, an upcoming mass action to halt construction of an Atlanta cop training facility, and a public comment period and North Dakota hearings on a court-ordered environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline opposition to fossil fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community and tribal members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion. We also share news, music, and reflections on recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of GTN Xpress, Spokane and Idaho news coverage, upcoming legal challenges, and inland Northwest protests of the FERC decision, updates and a benefit for Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns shot in New Mexico, and a Sunrise Movement explanation of the American Climate Corps. Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

The Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on a shooter sentencing hearing, press conference, and benefit art show for Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns wounded in New Mexico, the recent annular and upcoming solar eclipses, a deadly Colorado bridge coal train derailment and prolonged interstate closure, an excavator rupture and explosion of an Idaho gas pipeline proposed for reversal, and a looming federal decision and week of inland Northwest protests of GTN Xpress.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, October 11, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, videos, and reflections on Indigenous Peoples Day, the shooting of Spokane climate activist Jacob Johns at a peaceful New Mexico prayer gathering, calls by his family and Native community leaders for justice, unity, and federal hate crime charges, conservative representative and news demands for, and upcoming regional protests against, Northwest gas pipeline expansion, blockades of Appalachian pipeline construction and north Idaho park trees removal, and nuclear submarine and weapons facilities in a recently active Washington earthquake and tsunami zone.  Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →