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 →

The Wednesday, May 24, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on departed core WIRT organizer Herb Goodwin and recent outreach events and conversations, updates on massive deforestation schemes, railroad and creek bridge replacements, and a double-long coal export train around Lake Pend Oreille, a missing Wyoming train shipment of explosive chemicals, increased train derailment disasters and rail worker safety concerns in Washington state, ongoing indigenous tipi blockades of Nevada lithium mine construction, Alberta wildfires threatening gas and tar sands extraction sites and prices, and a Washington D.C. protest of federal regulators dominated by coal baron Joe Manchin.  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 17, 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. Army Corps of Engineers letter refuting flawed Idaho Transportation Department permit applications to destroy wetlands along a Highway 95 re-route near Moscow, a Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition co-founder memorial, Farmers Market outreach, an Idaho fact sheet, an editorial article, and a Washington D.C. protest of Northwest gas pipeline expansion, a Portland forum on the Zenith oil-by-rail terminal and nearby tank farms, a sabotaged Tacoma oil train derailment, a pre-Mother’s Day demonstration at a U.S. Navy nuclear missile submarine base in Washington, a second indigenous-led prayer blockade of Nevada lithium mine construction, the oil and gas industry carbon capture and storage scam, and four protests at fossil fuels-funding banks and a White House correspondents dinner.  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 10, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion, testifying at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition.  We also share news, music, and reflections on BNSF rail bridge and track construction and resulting harms to Sandpoint and Spokane area environments and economies, a Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition lawsuit settlement and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers letter refuting flawed Idaho Transportation Department attempts to realign Highway 95 near Moscow, and secret information about GTN Xpress contracts with gas supply companies sent to federal regulators ahead of a possible May 18 proposal decision.  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 3, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features 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, music, and reflections on a Maine derailment cleanup that spilled fuel, California first-in-nation diesel locomotive emissions rules, federal rejection of a liquefied natural gas train permit, and opportunities to support and participate in allied fundraising and events like Idaho Gives, the fiftieth annual Moscow Renaissance Fair, and a First Nation healing center spring work camp.  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, April 26, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on an Earth Day screening of a Northwest wildfire film in Newport and excessive north Idaho coal and oil trains, U.S. railroads’ comparably high derailment and fatality rates, an unknown, century-old, sunken train in Lake Pend Oreille, an injurious train crash and forest fire in Maine, Spokane faith leaders and Oregon youth climate strike protests of Northwest fracked gas pipeline expansion and a Portland fossil fuels hub, falling U.S. natural gas production and demand, a Native elders blockade of Nevada lithium mine construction, Canadian actions to abolish a police and industry response group, and First Nation spring resistance camp opportunities 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 →

The Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features faith and climate leaders talking about Northwest fracked gas pipeline expansion and its resistance at the April 12 Spokane Community GTN Xpress Teach-In.  We also share news, music, and reflections on anti-oil train graffiti and upcoming Earth Day gatherings in north Idaho and Washington, supporting and opposing views on Lake Pend Oreille deforestation collaboration, an Idaho town hall meeting on recently legislated state oil and gas rules, and a postponed federal decision and faith organizations letter requesting regulator rejection 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, April 12, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the first 2023 north Idaho thunder, gratitude for twelfth WIRT anniversary celebration performers and participants, an upcoming Spokane teach-in and demonstration against Northwest gas pipeline expansion, a southern Idaho town hall about recently legislated oil and gas rules changes, protests opposing bank financing of British Columbia pipeline construction across Canada and at an annual shareholder meeting excluding indigenous land defenders, derailments and their aftermath in the Swinomish reservation and western Montana, oil and hazardous materials train resistance in Washington and Colorado, and a federal government lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over the February Ohio train wreck.  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 →