by Will Falk | Apr 14, 2021 | Reflection
Thacker Pass remembers when the hairy, pale-skinned men came to round up her people and drag them away to the forts. The hoofbeats of cavalry warhorses thundered through the basin. Pistols popped and carbines cracked. Children and elders hid in the red shadows of the...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 14, 2021 | Press
Photo: Simona, Cain, and Mason are members of the Burns, Oregon Paiute Tribe – photo: Brian Bahouth for the Sierra Nevada Ally Four audio interviews from Thacker Pass last weekend, via Sierra Nevada Ally. Inelda Sam, Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe Dean...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 12, 2021 | Reflection
Spring has sprung at Thacker Pass! All photos by Sarah...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 11, 2021 | Press
Audio: an interview with tribal member Daranda Hinckey By Brian Bahouth -April 8, 2021 Daranda Hinckey is a Fort McDermitt tribal member who said she spent time researching the mine and the demand for lithium and decided to take direct action. “From an environmental...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
It’s often said that solar panels, wind turbines, and the lithium-ion batteries that store their energy and power electric vehicles will save the planet. What most people don’t know is that producing lithium has direct links to the Alberta Tar Sands (also known as the...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
Photograph of Thacker Pond by Max Wilbert Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water by Rebecca Wildbear Nearly a third of the world lacks safe drinking water, though I have rarely been without. In a red rock canyon in Utah, backpacking on a week-long wilderness training in...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Reflection
Photograph of wild onion by Max Wilbert By Trinity La Fey, March 25, 2021 When, concerned for our safety, my husband pressured me to either censor or disguise myself online, I replied, “You keep talking at me like I don’t know what kind of world this is and I am...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Press
Photograph of deer at Thacker Pass by Spenser Heaps for Deseret News. See the article for more of Spenser’s terrific photography. A proposed lithium mine in rural northern Nevada has created unlikely alliances as efforts to address climate change clash...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Press
Photograph: (left to right) Myron Smart, Will Falk, and Ian Bigley By Ian Bigley for Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada In late March of 2021, PLAN staff and supporters visited Thacker Pass where a land occupation protest is ongoing in opposition to a massive...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Press
Photograph of old-growth sagebrush at Thacker Pass at sunset by Sarah Gar By Sarah Gar | April 6, 2021 A recent Cornell University report links 40% of human deaths today to pollution, so why doesn’t this pandemic dominate the news cycle? Why don’t communities...
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