by Protect Thacker Pass | 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...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 11, 2021 | Resistance Updates, Training
Join us July 24 & 25 for Direct Action Training at Thacker Pass. Training is incredibly important for our movements to become as effective as we can possibly be. On July 24-25, we’re hosting a direct action training at Thacker Pass. Apply to Attend —...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 9, 2021 | Reflection
By Justin McAffee for the Sierra Nevada Ally, July 9, 2021 What if I told you that Glenn Miller’s opinion piece about the Thacker Pass lithium project was a form of climate change denialism? He argues that lithium is necessary to convert our automobile transportation...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
In his recent opinion piece, “Thacker Pass Lithium Mine is Important for Limiting Global Warming,” Glenn Miller makes the same fundamental error so many others do these days: believing that climate change is the main crisis, rather than a symptom of the real crisis we...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
Two hundred years ago, the place where I sit writing these words was the site of a massacre. According to Harley Jackson, an elder from the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, the story goes like this. A group of Northern Paiute / Western Shoshone / Bannock people,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
At Thacker Pass, by Rob Lewis Tilting sea of sagebrush, ancient fragrance rising. Circular distances weaving baskets of stone, time, silence. The windmind where you wandered before your name before the dials and settings of Progress closed and ordered your gates. *...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 5, 2021 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
July 4, 2021 We’re coming up on 6 months of protest and blockade at Thacker Pass / Peehee Mu’huh. This is a live stream video from Thacker Pass with updates about the Protect Thacker Pass protest and Q&A with live audience...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 2, 2021 | Resistance Updates
It’s time to #StopTheGreenwashing and #FightForTheLiving. Join Us!! 🔥 ✊ 🌎 HOW YOU CAN HELP TODAY 🌎 ✊ 🔥 🌎 Call or email the Department of the Interior and leave a message for Secretary Deb Haaland. Ask her to meet with regional native people and listen to...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 1, 2021 | Press Releases
July 1, 2021 CONTACT: Max Wilbert CARSON CITY, NV — Opponents of the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine are speaking out again — this time, against the planned digging up of Native American tools, artifacts, campsites, and potentially even graves on the site of the...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 1, 2021 | Resistance Updates
For our ongoing pressure campaign against Lithium Nevada and Far Western Anthropological Research Group to oppose the looting of Indigenous people and culture at Thacker Pass: WE NEED YOUR ACTION!! Call the Register of Professional Archaeologists’ Grievance...
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