by Protect Thacker Pass | May 17, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Thacker Pass Warriors! Join us Tuesday May 25, 6pm at Orovada Community Hall in a show of opposition to the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine. The meeting is with Nevada Department of Environmental Protection and we need to show mass opposition to this mine, in solidarity...
by Max Wilbert | May 17, 2021 | Art, Reflection
After reading Alexi Zawadzki’s April 28th article, “Lithium Nevada Corp’s CEO explains the benefits of the Thacker Pass Lithium Project,” I look out across the landscape of Thacker Pass and feel the wind blow across my skin. My goal in this essay is to debunk...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 16, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear Two Bureau of Land Management officers came to visit. It was snowing and the wind was blowing hard. “Are you guys having fun yet?” one asked. “The weather’s always like this when we come,” the other said. Two cops showed up a week later. It was...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 15, 2021 | Press
by John M. Glionna May 14, 2021 The sky was blue and I was driving a rural stretch of tarmac called Kings River Road, searching for the site of perhaps the nation’s next big environmental showdown. A mammoth open-pit mine is slated to be carved out of an arid sweep of...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 15, 2021 | Press
By Claire Carlson for Native News Online May 13, 2021 Situated between the high peaks and low valley floors of northern Nevada is Thacker Pass, an expanse of land that is bordered from the north and south by the Montana and Double H mountain ranges. The pass is in...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 15, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear Red-tailed hawks nested in a nearby canyon. Every once in a while, one circled above. A middle-aged man and I sat in the sagebrush. We had both been at camp for more than a week. I looked toward the snow-capped peaks that surrounded us, as he...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 14, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear The citizens of Orovada meet each week to discuss the mine. Lithium Nevada representatives were there last time. They came to put the minds of local citizens at ease. They were going to construct and operate this mine safely. “Sulphur is natural,”...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 12, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear My tent was ripped to shreds by the wind on the first night. I slept in my car, but the wind pried unabashedly at my heart for days. It grew colder. One morning I awoke to a white landscape, later melted by the midday sun. The sagebrush pulled me...
by Max Wilbert | May 11, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Life on Earth, or consumeristic industrial culture. From all the evidence, we can only have one or the other. Which do you choose? Transcript Hey everyone. I’m recording this on May 10th. I did the math and I think it is day 115 of the Protect Thacker Pass...
by Will Falk | May 6, 2021 | Reflection
When you find yourself bitter that no one seems to care, when you’ve tricked yourself that you’re all alone, when you’ve fought longer than you thought you could and the war has just begun, look for the little ones, the creatures underfoot and overhead, our tiny...
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