by Max Wilbert | Jul 27, 2021 | Reflection
The great poet and playwright James Baldwin wrote in 1953 that “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.” Perhaps never has this been truer than in this era of converging ecological crises: global warming, biodiversity collapse,...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 26, 2021 | Press Releases
July 26, 2021 Contact: Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Chairman Arlan Melendez People of Red Mountain William Falk, Esq. Protect Thacker Pass FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RENO, NV — In yet another blow to Lithium Americas’ troubled Thacker Pass lithium mine, the Reno-Sparks Indian...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 23, 2021 | Reflection
The plan to “electrify everything” that is rapidly taking over all economic and policy planning around the world means that mining for metals and minerals will increase dramatically to supply demand for technologies like EVs and so much more. Take a look...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 23, 2021 | Press
By Daniel Rothberg for The Nevada Independent July 22, 2021 In front of a federal courthouse in downtown Reno on Wednesday morning, more than 50 people from Indigenous groups across the state gathered in a peaceful protest against the proposed Thacker Pass lithium...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 22, 2021 | Press
by Evan Halper for the LA Times July 21, 2021 A mining permit pushed through in the last week of the Trump administration allows the Canadian company Lithium Americas Corp. to produce enough lithium carbonate annually to supply nearly a million electric car batteries....
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 22, 2021 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
In a video from Thacker Pass this morning, Max describes the status of the legal efforts to Protect Thacker Pass / Peehee Mu’huh. Yesterday, a judge in the federal court in Reno heard arguments on a preliminary injunction motion filed against the Bureau of Land...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 14, 2021 | Resistance Updates
This episode of Muse Ecology is a terrific podcast with interviews with members of the People of Red Mountain, local community members, campers at Thacker Pass, and other supporters of Protect Thacker Pass. In this episode in the Water, Life, Climate, and...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 13, 2021 | Resistance Updates
The National Congress of American Indians Resolution #AK-21-027 The resolution “Supporting the Protection of Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone Ancestors and Cultural Lands at the Thacker Pass in Nevada and Protection of Eagles by Limiting Take Permits”...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 12, 2021 | Resistance Updates
On June 25-27, 2021, the People of Red Mountain led a Prayer Run from Steens Mountain, OR to Peehee Mu’huh / Thacker Pass. This is a video of that event. The run was 143 miles and connected the homelands of the Northern Paiute at Steens Mountain to the...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 12, 2021 | Art, Resistance Updates
Like the US, the EU is in a mad rush to replace gas-powered vehicles with EVs. The EU currently imports most of its lithium from Chile, the US and Russia, but like the US wants to develop its own supply chain so it’s less dependent on imports. As a result there...
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