The Wednesday, July 26, 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 and reflections on a TC Energy pipeline explosion and fire in Virginia, GTN Xpress contradictions with West Coast state emissions reduction laws, and actions in Portland and Washington, D.C. opposing July 27 GTN Xpress approval and protesting corroded Mountain Valley pipeline construction.  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, July 19, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features some lead 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, interviews, and reflections on Boise, Idaho, goals for reduced carbon emissions, a weeks-long, southern U.S., climate crisis heat dome, a Union Pacific Railroad push for one-person crews with support trucks, a proposed federal rule requiring hazmat information provision to fire and first responders, delayed town reconstruction, lawsuits, and unreleased reports on a suspected train-caused, British Columbia wildfire, and Canadian government failure to respond to First Nation claims of human rights violations.  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, July 12, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on current and contested Highway 95 construction on Paradise Ridge, recent Stop Oil Trains actions and workshop information, and possible BNSF railroad expansion release of lead into Lake Pend Oreille and obstruction of Amtrak passenger train stops in north Idaho, protests and an appeals court order temporarily halting Mountain Valley pipeline installation, historically highest global temperatures in early July, and decades of disinformation and denial of climate scientists’ warnings by oil and gas companies and the U.S. government.  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, July 5, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the July full supermoon, indigenous resistance, black revolts, and U.S. government counterinsurgency starting with the Declaration of Independence, federal agency killing of park-dwelling Canada geese before July 4 events and training and actions against oil trains and infrastructure in north Idaho, a terminated regional railroad lease, bridge collapse, and asphalt binder spill from a Yellowstone River derailment in Montana, central Oregon opposition to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, coalition resistance to international trade agreement attacks on climate policies, and greater radioactive waste generated by Idaho-tested small modular reactors than by traditional nuclear plants.  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, July 5, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the July full supermoon, indigenous resistance, black revolts, and U.S. government counterinsurgency starting with the Declaration of Independence, federal agency killing of park-dwelling Canada geese before July 4 events and training and actions against oil trains and infrastructure in north Idaho, a terminated regional railroad lease, bridge collapse, and asphalt binder spill from a Yellowstone River derailment in Montana, central Oregon opposition to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, coalition resistance to international trade agreement attacks on climate policies, and greater radioactive waste generated by Idaho-tested small modular reactors than by traditional nuclear plants.  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, June 28, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, recordings, and reflections on an Oregon and Idaho mystery megaload, conservation and climate group challenges of proposed north Idaho lakeside logging and burning, oil trains, and railroad expansion project communication towers, a Montana hazardous materials derailment and removal on a collapsed Yellowstone River bridge and science-devoid state defense during a youth climate trial, a federal agency decision mandating more coal train shipments from a Navajo-owned Montana mine, an Oregon county lawsuit against fossil fuel companies and enablers of deadly heatwaves, western U.S. opposition to nuclear waste transports, British Columbia wildfires around fracked oil and gas wells, and Australia train blockades by anti-coal advocates.  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, June 21, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, poetry, and reflections on deceased peace and anti-nuclear activist and government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, June Solstice dynamics, a court case challenging massive north Idaho lakeside forest clearcuts and burning, Oregon governor and growing Northwest opposition to GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion, a Nevada lithium mine lawsuit against non-violent tribal and allied protesters, updates from indigenous resisters of a British Columbia gas pipeline, and a Portland rally demanding a halt of Zenith Energy oil trains and riverside tanks.  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, June 14, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, interviews, and reflections on Canadian wildfire evacuations and smoke impacts on indigenous and distant communities, a north Idaho train fire on a lake bridge, railroad construction site visit, and proposed train communications towers, the longest postponed federal decision on a dangerous Northwest gas pipeline expansion, an upcoming protest of a British Columbia tar sands pipeline enlargement, a police raid of an indigenous prayer camp opposing a Nevada lithium mine, a constitutional trial by youth denouncing Montana climate policies, and the End the Era of Fossil Fuels week of actions across the Northwest and U.S.  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, June 7, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Daniel Goldhaber, director of the environmental and climate crisis action film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, talking about the necessity and urgency of risky direct actions against the oil and gas industry.  We also share news, music, and reflections on upcoming demonstrations across the Northwest and U.S., urging President Biden to end the fossil fuels era, Atlanta City Council funding approval of Cop City and arrests of a legal support team defending protesters, a national debt limit bill that capitulates on climate and environmental protections, and investments in renewable energy overtaking fossil fuels funding for the first time in 2023.  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, May 31, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakens Clean Water Act wetlands protections, the End the Era of Fossil Fuels national week of actions, a Montana youth climate court case against state government, opposition to a Montana gravel mine and asphalt plant on the Flathead reservation, national debt ceiling compromise legislation that approves all Mountain Valley gas pipeline permits, Alberta wildfires, evacuations, and Kearl tar sands tailings pond leaks impacting indigenous communities, and Coastal GasLink pipeline sediment spills into First Nations waters in British Columbia.  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 →