by Protect Thacker Pass | Aug 23, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Media coverage regarding the July 21st Thacker Pass mine-related injunction hearing seems to misunderstand the current status and implications of the ongoing legal battles over Thacker Pass, or “Peehee Mu’huh.” Contrary to these media...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Aug 5, 2021 | Press, Reflection
The history of the industrial era is one of colonization and extraction. This continues today, as we who work to protect the land know well. The film In the name of lithium is a documentary about the struggle of Argentine indigenous communities to prevent their salt...
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 Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 26, 2021 | Press Releases
July 26, 2021 Contact:Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Chairman Arlan MelendezWilliam 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 Colony and a group of...
by Protect Thacker Pass | 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 Protect Thacker Pass | 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 Protect Thacker Pass | 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 Protect Thacker Pass | 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. Yesterday, a judge in the federal court in Reno heard arguments on a preliminary injunction motion filed against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 14, 2021 | Resistance Updates
This episode of Muse Ecology is a terrific podcast with interviews with supporters of Protect Thacker Pass. In this episode in the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series, we hear diverse voices from the resistance to the proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in...
by Protect Thacker Pass | 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”...
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