by Max Wilbert | Dec 2, 2021 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Media Phone: Bethany Sam RSIC Attorney Phone: Will Falk, Esq. Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu (People of Red Mountain): Daranda Hinkey Protect Thacker Pass Media Phone: Max Wilbert New Legal Claims Filed Against Thacker Pass...
by Elisabeth Robson | Nov 17, 2021 | Resistance Updates
The NDEP Air Quality Hearing for the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine is TOMORROW in Winnemucca. We hope to see many of you there to tell NDEP, the media, and the world that we stand against the Thacker Pass lithium mine. Please attend IN PERSON if you can, 6pm Thursday in...
by Max Wilbert | Nov 15, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
It’s been 10 months since I first arrived at Thacker Pass and began work to protect the land from a proposed open-pit lithium mine in earnest. Today I share this video reporting from the land and sharing reflections on where the movement to protect this place is...
by Will Falk | Nov 12, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Protect Thacker Pass has been receiving a lot of questions about whether Judge Miranda Du’s decision to deny Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and the People of Red Mountain’s Motion for Reconsideration of her order denying their Motion for Preliminary Injunction...
by Will Falk | Nov 10, 2021 | Reflection
“An Astonishing Amount of Lead” (when legal writing makes me weep) by Will Falk In the early morning hours of September 12, 1865, 18 white soldiers of Company E, 1st Nevada Cavalry, under the command of Captain Robert C. Payne and Lieutenant Littlefield,...
by Elisabeth Robson | Nov 7, 2021 | Project updates
By Cayte Bosler, for Inside Climate News November 7, 2021 Deep below the tangled roots of the old-growth sagebrush of Thacker Pass, in an extinct super-volcano, lies one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—a key element for the transition to clean energy. But...
by Elisabeth Robson | Nov 5, 2021 | Reflection
Cars require roads. After all, what use is a car without a road to drive it on? Whether a car uses fossil fuels or is electric, all cars require roads. Roads are terrible for the environment. Aside from fragmenting habitat and creating an influx of pollutants into...
by Max Wilbert | Nov 4, 2021 | Resistance Updates, Training
For now, the pending archeological dig (desecration) has been postponed as the tribal governments opposed to the mine have managed to force the BLM to delay. Will Falk and the other lawyers working on the case are deep in the thick of things. They are writing dozens...
by Elisabeth Robson | Oct 24, 2021 | Art
Thacker Pass land protector Alex C. Eisenberg created these pieces after she returned from the Protect Thacker Pass camp, and they are published along with several others in Pangyrus Magazine. Thank you Alex, and thank you Pangyrus for publishing these wonderful...
by Elisabeth Robson | Oct 18, 2021 | Interview, Reflection
Here are some excerpts from a recent interview with Max Wilbert, featuring photos by Max. Thank you Max for speaking so eloquently on behalf of the land and the wild beings at Thacker Pass....
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