by Max Wilbert | Mar 4, 2021 | Resistance Updates
For 50 days, the Protect Thacker Pass camp has stood here in the mountains of northern Nevada, on Northern Paiute territory, to defend the land against a strip mine. Lithium Americas, a Canadian corporation, means to blow up, bulldoze, or pave 5,700 acres of this...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 4, 2021 | Press
Anti-mine protests and lawsuits pick up the pace at Nevada’s Thacker Pass, the site of the largest known lithium deposit in the United States. by AUSTIN PRICE, March 4, 2021 for Earth Island Journal In January, the day the BLM approved the mine, environmentalists Max...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 3, 2021 | Art, Reflection
Metals required to make EV batteries include lithium, manganese, copper, nickel, cobalt, gold, antimony, and more. You can’t make batteries without a whole lot of mining. Stopping the Thacker Pass Lithium mine isn’t just about stopping this one lithium...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 3, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Last night I talked with a native family from Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Reservation and one (of many) major concerns with the Thacker Pass mine is the “man camps” that often come with major construction activities and bring hundreds of workers from...
by Will Falk | Mar 2, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
An update from Thacker Pass, March 2, 2021. A helicopter flew over camp today, possibly it is Lithium Americas doing surveillance of camp. We need many many more people at camp to show Lithium Americas that we are a force to be reckoned with. Join...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 28, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
On January 15th we setup a protest encampment here at Thacker Pass which has now stood forty six days. We are questioning the narrative of progress that is leading places like this to be destroyed. Transcript Max: Hey, everyone. It’s Max out here at Thacker...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 28, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Thank you to Lysney P for sending photos from her recent visit to Thacker Pass Camp. #ProtectThackerPass #KeepItInTheGround...
by Will Falk | Feb 26, 2021 | Reflection
What Will You Do With The Warmth Remaining To You?: A Question the Winter Wind Asks by Will Falk, February 26, 2021 A war is being waged against life on Earth. Rivers, forests, oceans, whole species, and millions – if not billions – of people have already been counted...
by Max Wilbert | Feb 25, 2021 | Reflection
Forty days ago, my friend Will Falk and I launched a protest camp here at Thacker Pass. Situated between the Montana Mountains and Double H Mountains in northern Nevada, Thacker Pass is part of the “sagebrush ocean.” Big sagebrush plants, the keystone species here,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 25, 2021 | Art
Ravens are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, and yet the State of Nevada spends tens of thousands of dollars annually to poison thousands of ravens. Because ravens do well in human habitats, feeding on our garbage, roadkill, and the dead bodies of...
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