by Elisabeth Robson | Aug 5, 2022 | Reflection
Car tires and brakes are major sources of pollutants that are poisoning fish and littering the ocean with microplastics, and EVs will only make this problem worse. Car tires contain 6PPD-quinone, a toxic chemical used to help stop car tires from breaking down. This...
by Will Falk | Jul 14, 2022 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
THACKER PASS UPDATE/REFLECTIONS by Will Falk This past week, we got through most of the remaining court deadlines (at least for the next few weeks) in the two Thacker Pass cases we’re involved in. The first case is the lawsuit we filed on behalf of the Reno-Sparks...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 12, 2022 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) recently passed two resolutions related to Thacker Pass: ANC-22-007: Supporting Indigenous Safety through Opposing Man-Camps for Thacker Pass and ANC-22-013: Supporting the Continued Protection of Northern Paiute and...
by Max Wilbert | Jun 9, 2022 | Reflection
Land of green sage and blueberry skies I have loved you in every season From blizzards to heat waves Watching your lizards in the sun sage-grouse dancing in your folds Pronghorn stepping gently across your skin Cougar tracks high on your mountainsides Newly hatched...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jun 8, 2022 | Resistance Updates
We face off against the BLM in Court TOMORROW (June 9, 2022). Here’s how to listen. Tomorrow at 10am Pacific Time (1pm Eastern), Judge Du of United States District Court District of Nevada will hold brief hearing for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Reno...
by Max Wilbert | May 14, 2022 | Reflection
Tomorrow marks 16 months since I set up camp to Protect Thacker Pass with my friend Will Falk, the only man crazy enough to join me on a mile-high mountainside in the dead of winter to protect a wild and beautiful land from an open-pit lithium mine. Since then,...
by Elisabeth Robson | May 5, 2022 | Reflection
It’s Not Just Thacker Pass. The Entire Region is on the Chopping Block. by Elisabeth Robson In their June 2021 Fact Sheet about the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project, Lithium Americas includes a two page document about biodiversity at Thacker Pass and claim they have...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 18, 2022 | Press Releases
Reposted from the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “A Violation of Native American Rights”: Archeological Procedures Begin at Thacker PassAncestors and Sacred Sites in the Firing Line For more information, please contact Reno-Sparks Indian...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 15, 2022 | Press, Reflection
From “Drill, Baby, Drill” to “Mine, Baby, Mine” President Biden and the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Planet Earth by Max Wilbert and Elisabeth Robson / April 15th, 2022 Published in Dissident Voice, April 15, 2022 In 2015, former President Barack Obama said “If we’re...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 13, 2022 | Art, Reflection
by Travis London (Deep Green Arts) by Alex Eisenberg by Elisabeth Robson Thank you so much to everyone who submitted art and poetry for the Last Dance of the Sage Grouse. We were privileged to witness the sage grouse at their lek for the second time since we founded...
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