by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 12, 2022 | Project updates, Resistance Updates
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) recently passed two resolutions related to Thacker Pass: ANC-22-007: Supporting Indigenous Safety through Opposing Man-Camps for Thacker Pass and ANC-22-013: Supporting the Continued Protection of Northern Paiute and...
by Max Wilbert | Jun 9, 2022 | Reflection
Land of green sage and blueberry skies I have loved you in every season From blizzards to heat waves Watching your lizards in the sun sage-grouse dancing in your folds Pronghorn stepping gently across your skin Cougar tracks high on your mountainsides Newly hatched...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jun 8, 2022 | Resistance Updates
We face off against the BLM in Court TOMORROW (June 9, 2022). Here’s how to listen. Tomorrow at 10am Pacific Time (1pm Eastern), Judge Du of United States District Court District of Nevada will hold brief hearing for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Reno...
by Max Wilbert | May 14, 2022 | Reflection
Tomorrow marks 16 months since I set up camp to Protect Thacker Pass with my friend Will Falk, the only man crazy enough to join me on a mile-high mountainside in the dead of winter to protect a wild and beautiful land from an open-pit lithium mine. Since then,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 5, 2022 | Reflection
It’s Not Just Thacker Pass. The Entire Region is on the Chopping Block. by Elisabeth Robson In their June 2021 Fact Sheet about the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project, Lithium Americas includes a two page document about biodiversity at Thacker Pass and claim they have...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 18, 2022 | Press Releases
Reposted from the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “A Violation of Native American Rights”: Archeological Procedures Begin at Thacker PassAncestors and Sacred Sites in the Firing Line For more information, please contact Reno-Sparks Indian...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 15, 2022 | Press, Reflection
From “Drill, Baby, Drill” to “Mine, Baby, Mine” President Biden and the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Planet Earth by Max Wilbert and Elisabeth Robson / April 15th, 2022 Published in Dissident Voice, April 15, 2022 In 2015, former President Barack Obama said “If we’re...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 13, 2022 | Art, Reflection
by Travis London (Deep Green Arts) by Alex Eisenberg by Elisabeth Robson Thank you so much to everyone who submitted art and poetry for the Last Dance of the Sage Grouse. We were privileged to witness the sage grouse at their lek for the second time since we founded...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 4, 2022 | Press Releases
Contact Max Wilbert and Will Falk FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RENO, NV — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been disobeying court orders and making “reckless, false statements” in a deliberate attempt to abuse the justice system and limit judicial oversight, according...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 30, 2022 | Reflection
Thacker Pass is beautiful. It is lush with sagebrush and native grasses and wildflowers. It is home to over 300 species. It is NOT a “wasteland” as some call it. We must save this place!! #ProtectThackerPass #LoyaltyToLandAndLife Photographs by Max...
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