Calendar

Jun
24
Tue
Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour Show with Dana Lyons @ Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse (upstairs Sanctuary)
Jun 24 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am

Come to the Moscow Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour Show with Dana Lyons, and learn about the proposed and ongoing oil trains that the oil industry plans to send through Northwest towns for export through the Salish Sea. Explore how our region is organizing to stop these oil trains and how you can help, while enjoying some great tunes and a lovely Solstice gathering!  Please join Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists, friends, family, and allies at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, 420 East Second Street in Moscow, Idaho, at 7 pm on Monday, June 23, for an inspiring concert and an informative talk by Dana Lyons, with potluck snacks, beer, and wine.  Show hosts suggest $10 to $20 donations for fundraising admission, but will not turn anyone away for lack of funds.  For further information about the oil train issue and this tour event, visit WIRT website and facebook pages at WildIdahoRisingTide.org and Facebook.com/WildIdaho.RisingTide or contact WIRT at wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com or 208-301-8039.

 

The Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour is making stops in Port Angeles, Everett, Vancouver, and Olympia, Washington, on June 6, 7, 12, and 14, and in Portland, Oregon, on June 13.  Dana and Matt will offer an upcoming show sponsored by Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper (208-597-7188, LakePendOreilleWaterkeeper.org) at 7 pm on Tuesday, June 24, at Farmin Park on Oak Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues in Sandpoint, Idaho.  Spokane Riverkeeper (bart@cforjustice.org) will also host a performance at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 25, on the Saranac Building roof at 35 West Main Avenue in Spokane, Washington.  Missoula and Helena, Montana, comrades have scheduled tentative shows respectively on Thursday and Monday, June 26 and 30.  To find out more about ForestEthics campaigns, eco-performer Dana Lyons and his music and merchandise, and Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour updates, browse the following website links.

 

 

ForestEthics

http://www.forestethics.org/crude-by-rail-dangers

 

Dana Lyons

http://www.cowswithguns.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/cowswithgunsguy

https://myspace.com/danalyons

https://www.facebook.com/DanaLyons

https://twitter.com/danalyons

 

 

Aug
13
Wed
Fight or Flight Northern Rockies Tour @ The Attic (up the back stairs)
Aug 13 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am

Fight or Flight Northern Rockies Tour stop and direct action training workshop co-sponsored by The Bunny Alliance, Earth First! Journal, Resistance Ecology, and WIRT at the Attic, up the back stairs of 314 East Second Street in Moscow

Oct
11
Sat
Global Frackdown, Boise Farmers Market @ Boise Farmers Market
Oct 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Saturday, October 11, 11 am MDT: Global Frackdown, Boise Farmers Market at Eleventh and Front Streets, through Capital City Public Market, to the Idaho Capitol steps on Jefferson Street, Boise, Idaho

 

In conjunction with the third Global Frackdown worldwide day of action on October 11, concerned citizens and climate activists are staging another public demonstration calling for a ban on looming fracking and all toxic oil and gas practices in Idaho and around the Earth.  WIRT, Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction (IRAGE), and other groups will march with protest signs, banners, and chants, through farmers markets to the Idaho Capitol and rally on its steps, to publicly oppose fracking and fossil fuels that poison people and the planet and to demand a future powered by clean, renewable energy.

 

 

http://www.globalfrackdown.org/

Oct
14
Tue
Statewide Protest: State Oil & Gas Lease Auction @ IDL
Oct 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14 and 15, 12 noon and 8:30 am: Statewide protests at 12 noon local time on Tuesday at Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) offices and state oil and gas lease auction resistance on 8:30 am MDT on Wednesday at IDL, 300 North Sixth Street, Suite 103, Boise, Idaho

 

Like June 2013 demonstrations across Idaho and April 2014 protests and occupation of a state oil and gas lease auction, IRAGE, WIRT, and allies are encouraging statewide, grassroots convergences at Idaho Department of Lands offices on Tuesday, October 14, and frontline displays of citizen disapproval at another state lands and minerals lease auction at the IDL office in Boise.

http://www.idl.idaho.gov/oil-gas/leasing/index.html

Oct
15
Wed
Statewide Protest: State Oil & Gas Lease Auction @ Idaho Department of Lands (IDL)
Oct 15 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14 and 15, 12 noon and 8:30 am: Statewide protests at 12 noon local time on Tuesday at Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) offices and state oil and gas lease auction resistance on 8:30 am MDT on Wednesday at IDL, 300 North Sixth Street, Suite 103, Boise, Idaho

 

Like June 2013 demonstrations across Idaho and April 2014 protests and occupation of a state oil and gas lease auction, IRAGE, WIRT, and allies are encouraging statewide, grassroots convergences at Idaho Department of Lands offices on Tuesday, October 14, and frontline displays of citizen disapproval at another state lands and minerals lease auction at the IDL office in Boise.

http://www.idl.idaho.gov/oil-gas/leasing/index.html

Oct
29
Wed
2014 Marine & Rail Oil Transportation Study: Public Meeting @ Double Tree Hotel by Hilton, Spokane
Oct 29 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am

Tuesday and Thursday, October 28 and 30, 6 to 8 pm: 2014 Marine and Rail Oil Transportation Study public meeting, Double Tree Hotel by Hilton, 322 North Spokane Falls Court, Spokane, Washington, on Tuesday, and at an unknown location in Lacey/Olympia on Thursday

 

Governor Inslee and Washington agency staff are conducting a study addressing the significant increases in oil transportation across the state, with hearings and comments that assess the risks and impacts of oil transportation to rail line and terminal communities and waterways.  Crucial opportunities for public participation can provide input, express concerns, and inform state responses to combined oil and coal train and ship traffic affecting environmental and public health and safety and regional livelihoods and economies.  Contact WIRT for Palouse carpool arrangements to Spokane.

 

 

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/OilMovement/2014MRstudy.html

Oct
31
Fri
2014 Marine & Rail Oil Transporation Study: Public Meeting @ Double Tree Inn by Hilton - Spokane
Oct 31 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am

Tuesday and Thursday, October 28 and 30, 6 to 8 pm: 2014 Marine and Rail Oil Transportation Study public meeting, Double Tree Hotel by Hilton, 322 North Spokane Falls Court, Spokane, Washington, on Tuesday, and at an unknown location in Lacey/Olympia on Thursday

 

Governor Inslee and Washington agency staff are conducting a study addressing the significant increases in oil transportation across the state, with hearings and comments that assess the risks and impacts of oil transportation to rail line and terminal communities and waterways.  Crucial opportunities for public participation can provide input, express concerns, and inform state responses to combined oil and coal train and ship traffic affecting environmental and public health and safety and regional livelihoods and economies.  Contact WIRT for Palouse carpool arrangements to Spokane.

 

 

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/OilMovement/2014MRstudy.html

Nov
17
Mon
Acoustic Folk Benefit Concert @ The Attic (up the back stairs)
Nov 17 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am

Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) is hosting a special fall benefit concert to open the year-end giving season and raise funds for strategic relocation and expansion of our anti-fossil fuels infrastructure, direct action campaign and operations in southwest Idaho.  Please join community supporters and WIRT activists at The Attic, up the back stairs of 314 East Second Street in Moscow, Idaho, from 6 to 9 pm on Sunday, November 16, for a social hour with refreshments and discussion of ongoing WIRT climate justice campaigns and an evening of rousing, acoustic, live folk and blues music at this intimate downtown venue.

 

At 7 pm, local husband-and-wife composers and musicians Joshua Yeidel and Sharon Cousins will open performances with their original, eclectic, multi-generational songs and lyrical messages of harmony and hope. After performing as solo street musicians in San Francisco, Sharon and Josh have been filling the Palouse community with tunes since their migration to the region in 1976, lately hailing from a ridge above Viola.  They have formed and collaborated with several, local, folk/rock bands over the years, including Sun-on-the-Mountain, Jasper, We Here Now, and Sagin’ Time, performing primarily at Inland Northwest festivals, concerts, and private parties, and producing and releasing a 2003 album, The Taste of Life Itself, with Sagin’ Time [1]. Through a revitalizing mixture of uniquely upbeat, inclusive, alternative music, these fellow WIRT members have been singing since they could talk and playing their primary, respective instruments, the guitar and flute, for more than 50 years.  Together, they offer concert listeners over a century of experience in the enlightening joy of rich, diverse music.

 

Tom Bennett of Salt Lake City will take the stage next.  A native of Villa Rica in the rural, north Georgia countryside, Tom is a true, relentless, traveling, folk/blues singer and activist [2, 3].  At age nine, he began playing the harmonica given to him by an old woman from West Virginia.  He has journeyed in nearly every U.S. state on buses, freight trains, and by hitchhiking, and has stayed with East Los Angeles gang members and at isolated, polygamist enclaves.  Always seeking adventures, Tom shares his stories while performing on resonator guitar, harmonica, tambourine, suitcase percussion, and vocals, which he often plays together in the style of a one-man-band busker, as demonstrated in his recent video rendition of Sharecropper’s Blues [4]. Along with founding a regular, folk-music showcase and a folk-centric record label, Sweet Salt Records, and releasing a debut album, The Man Who Shook the Trail of the Devil’s Hounds, this talented and inspiring musician likes doing shows that spread awareness of various issues [5].  He has performed at the Utah March against Monsanto and the Clean Air No Excuses rally at the Utah Capitol, and at other human rights and environmental events besides a recent, 20-plus-state, summer tour through the West Coast and Deep South.

 

For admission by free-will donation, WIRT welcomes everyone to come and hear Josh’s, Sharon’s, and Tom’s rowdy tales and gritty, soulful songs of authentic, Americana folk life and music, and to enjoy the opportunity for a rare WIRT convergence, before the dual college towns of Moscow and Pullman disperse for Thanksgiving-time vacations.  Please bring your resistance spirit and friends and your contributions of funds and additional beverages and/or snacks on Sunday evening, November 16, at 6 pm.  We hope to give some of the proceeds to these valiant, volunteer, visiting musical guests, who consider it “a great privilege and honor to do this show” for Wild Idaho Rising Tide.  Peruse the WIRT facebook and website pages for further information about this event and our campaigns, share this announcement, and print and widely post the attached, color, letter-sized flyer.  Thanks!

Dec
10
Wed
Third Annual Stand Up! Fight Back! Against Fossil Fuels in the Northwest! @ The Attic (up the back stairs)
Dec 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Moscow, Sandpoint, and Spokane activists of Spokane Rising Tide and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) enthusiastically invite regional community members eager to design and stage public education events and protests to the third annual Stand Up! Fight Back! Against Fossil Fuels in the Northwest! information sharing, brainstorming, and strategizing sessions [1, 2]. Opponents of coal, fracked natural gas and oil, and tar sands extraction and transportation projects are converging from northern Idaho and eastern Washington for these urgent planning gatherings. Like Missoula comrades of Indian Peoples Action, Blues Skies Campaign, and several other groups, who have been meeting since November 19, participants could talk about campaign strategies, creative tactics, and practical arrangements for upcoming training workshops, panel discussions, and direct actions [3]. The Missoula potluck convergence shared “thoughtful dialogue about stopping TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline and all other forms of extraction,…forming an allegiance among local eco-warriors.” More information at: Wild Idaho Rising Tide.

Jan
20
Tue
Climate Change Class, Pullman Parks and Rec @ Pullman Parks and Rec.
Jan 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

(Tuesdays throughFeb 24):, [http://www.pullman-wa.gov/docman/doc_download/4054-pdf-pullman-parks-recreation-brochure-winter-spring-2015] [p. 22], Contact Pat Rathmann if  you have questions she has been in touch with Pete Haug, instructor.

Jan
27
Tue
Climate Change Class, Pullman Parks and Rec @ Pullman Parks and Rec.
Jan 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

(Tuesdays throughFeb 24):, [http://www.pullman-wa.gov/docman/doc_download/4054-pdf-pullman-parks-recreation-brochure-winter-spring-2015] [p. 22], Contact Pat Rathmann if  you have questions she has been in touch with Pete Haug, instructor.

Feb
3
Tue
Climate Change Class, Pullman Parks and Rec @ Pullman Parks and Rec.
Feb 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

(Tuesdays throughFeb 24):, [http://www.pullman-wa.gov/docman/doc_download/4054-pdf-pullman-parks-recreation-brochure-winter-spring-2015] [p. 22], Contact Pat Rathmann if  you have questions she has been in touch with Pete Haug, instructor.

Feb
10
Tue
Climate Change Class, Pullman Parks and Rec @ Pullman Parks and Rec.
Feb 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

(Tuesdays throughFeb 24):, [http://www.pullman-wa.gov/docman/doc_download/4054-pdf-pullman-parks-recreation-brochure-winter-spring-2015] [p. 22], Contact Pat Rathmann if  you have questions she has been in touch with Pete Haug, instructor.

Feb
17
Tue
Climate Change Class, Pullman Parks and Rec @ Pullman Parks and Rec.
Feb 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

(Tuesdays throughFeb 24):, [http://www.pullman-wa.gov/docman/doc_download/4054-pdf-pullman-parks-recreation-brochure-winter-spring-2015] [p. 22], Contact Pat Rathmann if  you have questions she has been in touch with Pete Haug, instructor.

Mar
6
Wed
Sand Point Second Bridge Presentation
Mar 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Sand Point Second Bridge Presentation by Helen Yost Fiske Room 1912 Center.