by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 2, 2021 | Reflection
How would you know by Paul Feather I am watching the light fade as the last day of March is swallowed behind the hills of Thacker Pass. Sheltered in my car and bundled against rapidly dropping temperatures, I wait for the stars that I traveled two thousand miles to...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 28, 2021 | Press, Reflection
By Kamea Chayne, March 25, 2021 Are we okay with living ecosystems and mountaintops being blown up—so long as it’s done for extracting lithium instead of coal? As the largest known lithium reserve in the United States, Thacker Pass, a part of the ancestral lands...
by Will Falk | Mar 27, 2021 | Reflection
Thacker Pass remembers the world we used to live in. She murmurs these memories in the long strides and white haunches of mule deer fleeing the scents of humans over the sage. She sends her reminiscences in sudden March snow squalls on otherwise sunny days. She...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 13, 2021 | Art, Reflection
Photo: Pictured here is the Foote mine, a large open-pit lithium mine in spodumene pegmatite, located on the south side of the town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. The Foote mine project was initiated in 1938. This photograph was taken in 1983. 45 years later. The...
by Will Falk | Mar 5, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cops came looking for me yesterday. I was gone on a long walk to the south side of Thacker Pass, but Max Wilbert recorded the interaction. The cops claimed they are concerned about violence at Thacker Pass and they took particular issue...
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