Ice reclaims the land

Ice reclaims the land

by | Dec 18, 2021 | Art

Dawn breaks over the small creek The night’s hard ice sparkles on every stone Light floods the land Fifty pronghorn crest the low rise to the east Making their seasonal migration The sun sweeps a wide, low arc across the firmament The cold stillness so crisp and...
As Tradition Goes Up in Smoke

As Tradition Goes Up in Smoke

by | Dec 15, 2021 | Art

As Tradition Goes Up in Smoke by Will Falk When the frost of ancestral protection vanishes with rising temperatures and minds grow soft with amnesia, they come in heavy trucks to mine memories and steal stories. Glaciers remain, for now, wavering, with teardrops...
Update from Thacker Pass

Update from Thacker Pass

by | 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...
Legal Update

Legal Update

by | 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...
An Astonishing Amount of Lead

An Astonishing Amount of Lead

by | 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,...