The Wednesday, January 5, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Dan Serres of Columbia Riverkeeper talking with Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein, about attempts to build a Port Westward, Oregon, methanol refinery and other Northwest fossil fuels facilities.  We also share songs, news, and reflections on December West Coast military trains, a British Columbia (B.C.) court decision allowing railroad prosecution of track blockaders, Colorado climate crisis-fueled winter wildfires and a coal derailment, Minnesota Line 3 aquifer breaches and waterway pollution, B.C. First Nation and Chicago solidarity actions against a gas pipeline, police invasions, and bank funders, Spokane film screening and discussion of cross-continent indigenous organizing, and a collapsing Antarctic glacier and global deluge.  Broadcast for almost ten 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, December 29, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith talking about abrupt climate system mayhem and likely impending environmeistntal and economic crises.  We also share songs, news, and reflections on Swedish climate advocate Greta Thunberg’s encouragement of civil disobedience, Occupy Biden protests in Delaware demanding presidential climate action, Biden administration auctions of massive Gulf of Mexico oil and gas drilling leases and a promise to not ban crude oil exports, a Canadian decision to halt thermal coal exports by 2030, and a climate scientist’s perspective on the comet collision movie Don’t Look Up.  Broadcast for almost ten 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, December 22, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news and reflections on the moonlit Winter Solstice and its worldwide celebrations, Washington military and nuclear waste trains, federal prison sentences of railroad track saboteurs, and tribal and community group appeals of a LNG facility permit, 2021 Northwest victories over fossil fuel infrastructure proposals, a Montana abandoned vehicle and train collision and fatal Amtrak derailment employee lawsuit, a $1.5 million fine for a 2018 Iowa tar sands oil train spill, solidarity actions and indigenous eviction of British Columbia gas pipeline construction workers, Minnesota Line 3 and Gulf Coast demonstrations demanding environmental reviews, opposition to Nevada lithium mine displacement of Native homes, and a large northern California coastal earthquake.  Broadcast for almost ten 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, December 15, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, interviews, and reflections on U.S. extradition of Julian Assange from a London prison, Northwest double-long coal trains and India dust cover plans, Wet’suwet’en land and water defense and solidarity actions against British Columbia gas pipeline construction, investors, and raiding police, new indigenous legal claims against a proposed Nevada lithium mine, permitted test drilling for first Oregon lithium extraction, federal talks about Alberta tar sands tailings pond releases into the Athabasca River, and ongoing Navy fuel storage contamination of Hawaii drinking water.  Broadcast for almost ten 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, December 8, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaking at the 52nd anniversary commemoration of Alcatraz Island occupation by indigenous sovereignty activists.  We also share news and reflections on police raids and First Nation and solidarity resistance to British Columbia pipeline construction, requests to drop Minnesota Line 3 protester charges, an abandoned Oregon LNG export terminal and gas pipeline proposal, Washington board approval of a Tacoma LNG project, Virginia denial of a key pipeline compressor station permit, a third experimental nuclear reactor pursuing Idaho testing, and train wrecks and deaths in Idaho, Montana, Iowa, and Alberta.  Broadcast for almost ten 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 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, November 24, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news and reflections about the national indigenous Day of Mourning and Wampanoag tribe truth-sharing about Thanksgiving, U.S. Navy nuclear submarine waste trains on Northwest rails, suspension of liquefied natural gas railroad transport rules, a closed tar sands pipeline, its expansion, and a refinery in flooded British Columbia, commemoration of recently deceased radical attorney and activist Larry Hildes, air and water pollution permit hearings on a proposed Nevada lithium mine, a federal court decision on a Michigan Line 5 shutdown order, and First Nation gas pipeline blockades, police raids and arrests, and international solidarity demonstrations.  Broadcast for almost ten 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, November 17, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features a conversation between Emma Rae Lierley and Scott Parkin of Rainforest Action Network, about indigenous- and youth-led marches and empty world leader pledges to halt deforestation and climate crises at the United Nations COP26 “greenwash trade show” in Scotland.  We also share news and reflections about a rare extended lunar eclipse, a film screening and discussion about a youth climate lawsuit against the U.S. government, a Spokane train blockader’s dismissed charges and climate necessity defense trial, a barge-train collision and diesel and coal spill into the Mississippi River, British Columbia and Washington storm flooding, evacuations, and road and rail disruptions and derailments, and a First Nation eviction of gas pipeline construction crews.  Broadcast for almost ten 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, November 10, 2021, 500th Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features the Great Big Lesson for Climate and Nature, presented by youth and education groups live from the United Nations COP26 climate talks in Scotland.  We also share news and reflections about proposed north Idaho lakeside logging projects, Veterans for Peace acknowledgements of Armistice Day, a Spokane oil train blockader, and his upcoming climate necessity defense trial, indigenous blockades of a British Columbia gas pipeline river crossing, and coal and gas emissions surges to pre-pandemic levels.  Broadcast for almost ten 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. ~Helen

The Wednesday, November 3, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features excerpts from a recent Congressional hearing that questioned oil industry executives about their companies’ climate disinformation.  We also share news and reflections about a third riverside gas well drilled and lawsuit filed in southwest Idaho, comments against mobile nuclear micro-reactor tests in eastern Idaho, a U.S. nuclear submarine collision and cover-up in the South China Sea, First Nation blockades of British Columbia gas pipeline construction, and United Nations climate policy talks in Scotland.  Broadcast for nine 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 27, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news and reflections about police reports on water protector Myron Dewey’s fatal vehicle collision, a Spokane train blockader’s climate necessity defense trial, acid train cars derailed in California, a Washington railroad disrupter’s sentence, local First Nation responses to a town-destroying wildfire and investigation, a deadly 1961 nuclear plant explosion and proposed mobile micro-reactor tests in Idaho, and indigenous protests of British Columbia gas pipeline construction and President Biden climate policies in Washington D.C.  Broadcast for nine 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.