by Max Wilbert | Jan 29, 2021 | Reflection
January 28, 2021 RE: Enforcement of 14-Day Camping Limit Against Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Protestors Ms. McCullough, Officer Briscoe, Officer Parnell and other relevant Bureau of Land Management Staff: The Protect Thacker Pass Occupation is a protest of...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 28, 2021 | Reflection
by Max Wilbert, Jan 28, 2021 I have heard it said that one of humans most impressive traits is our ability to delude ourselves. Nowhere is this more clear than here at Thacker Pass. Fourteen days ago, my friend Will Falk and I set up a protest camp here to stop...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 28, 2021 | Interview
Activists aiming to stop Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass open-pit lithium mine – what would be the United States’ largest lithium mine, supplying up to 25% of the world’s lithium – launched a permanent protest encampment hours after the Bureau of Land Management...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 27, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
The first time I came to Thacker Pass, I walked up the old dirt road heading back towards the canyons of the Montana Mountains. Eventually, I came to a gate along a barbed-wire fence, and I saw one of the biggest, oldest sagebrush bushes I have ever seen. She is tall,...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 25, 2021 | Resistance Updates
On January 15th, my friend Will Falk and myself launched a protest occupation of the proposed lithium mine site at Thacker Pass, Nevada. We have set up tents, protest signs, and weathered more than a week of winter weather to oppose lithium mining, which would destroy...
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