by Max Wilbert | Mar 13, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
The battle for Thacker Pass continues. Today a prayer run and walk began from the Yomba Shoshone Reservation. Over the next week, runners and walkers will cover 273 miles before arriving at the site of the proposed open-pit lithium mine and chemical gas processing...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 4, 2021 | Resistance Updates
For 50 days, the Protect Thacker Pass camp has stood here in the mountains of northern Nevada, on Northern Paiute territory, to defend the land against a strip mine. Lithium Americas, a Canadian corporation, means to blow up, bulldoze, or pave 5,700 acres of this...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 3, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Last night I talked with a native family from Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Reservation and one (of many) major concerns with the Thacker Pass mine is the “man camps” that often come with major construction activities and bring hundreds of workers from...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 28, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
On January 15th we setup a protest encampment here at Thacker Pass which has now stood forty six days. We are questioning the narrative of progress that is leading places like this to be destroyed. Transcript Max: Hey, everyone. It’s Max out here at Thacker...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 25, 2021 | Reflection
Forty days ago, my friend Will Falk and I launched a protest camp here at Thacker Pass. Situated between the Montana Mountains and Double H Mountains in northern Nevada, Thacker Pass is part of the “sagebrush ocean.” Big sagebrush plants, the keystone species here,...
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