by Max Wilbert | Jan 27, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
The first time I came to Thacker Pass, I walked up the old dirt road heading back towards the canyons of the Montana Mountains. Eventually, I came to a gate along a barbed-wire fence, and I saw one of the biggest, oldest sagebrush bushes I have ever seen. She is tall,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jan 27, 2021 | Interview
This interview with Max Wilbert was recorded back in late December, before he and Will left for Thacker Pass. It is an in-depth interview with great information about the lithium mining project that’s planned for this area, but even more important, Max’s...
by Will Falk | Jan 26, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Human Supremacy: First, Humans Control. Then, Humans Hate. My article that I wrote for Prairie Protection Colorado about the connection between rodenticides and mange was published this morning by the Deep Green Resistance News Service. While I’m up here trying...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jan 26, 2021 | Art
The King’s River Pyrg is a critically imperiled snail species known to only reside in 13 isolated springs on Thacker Pass. A lithium mine would most definitely ensure the loss of this species forever. One more reason to...
by Will Falk | Jan 26, 2021 | Art, Reflection
Sage Songs (Or What the Thacker Pass Rabbits Know About Music) Rabbits taught me that each sagebrush has a unique voice. I often take long walks across the steppes in Thacker Pass. It’s not uncommon to spy a rabbit – with one floppy ear pointed one way and one another...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 25, 2021 | Resistance Updates
On January 15th, my friend Will Falk and myself launched a protest occupation of the proposed lithium mine site at Thacker Pass, Nevada. We have set up tents, protest signs, and weathered more than a week of winter weather to oppose lithium mining, which would destroy...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jan 25, 2021 | Press Releases
For Immediate Release, January 25, 2021 Contact: Max Wilbert and Will Falk via our Contact Form Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Mine That Would Provide 25% of World’s Lithium Supply Lithium is the miracle element powering your smartphone and under the hood of every...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 25, 2021 | Press
For Immediate Release Contact: Max Wilbert and Will Falk via our Contact Form Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Mine That Would Provide 25% of World’s Lithium Supply Lithium is the miracle element powering your smartphone and under the hood of every electric car....
by Max Wilbert | Jan 25, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Cars are a luxury good, not a necessity. Our grandparents lived mostly without cars. Our great grandparents rarely saw them. 99.9% of our ancestors existed without cars. If your environmentalism won’t allow you to critique luxury goods, it will not stop global warming...
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