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 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 Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 24, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Two recent executive orders, one by the Trump administration in September 2020, and now one by the Biden administration today, February 24, 2021, will cause a massive increase in mining in the United States in the years to come unless we can stop them. These executive...
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