by Protect Thacker Pass | May 15, 2023 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
by Paul Cienfuegos, Founding Director, Community Rights US Last Thursday, May 11th, the next nationally significant Standing-Rock-like prayer and action camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada (Pee’hee Mu’huh in the Paiute language meaning “rotten moon” named for the...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 22, 2023 | Reflection
A criminal slips a police officer a handful of bills and walks free. A businessman buys a politician with a briefcase full of cash. We often think of bribery and corruption in these blatant terms, and as something that happens in poor countries, elsewhere. But...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 20, 2023 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Artwork by Jamie Watson The campaign to stop an open-pit lithium mine began on January 15th, 2021, after the Trump Administration fast-tracked mining on critical wildlife habitat that also happens to be a sacred site. This past Sunday was the two-year anniversary of...
by Max Wilbert | Dec 20, 2022 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Court hearing nears as Lithium Nevada pushes forward with illegal work on-site Winter is a beautiful time at Thacker Pass. If summer is a dusty sullen torpor, fall brooding and wistful and blooming, spring tumultuous and muddy and headlong, winter is a crystalline...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Dec 1, 2022 | Reflection
Fossil fuel companies learned a long time ago tactics to reframe what they do to the communities and ecosystems their projects impact. Since 1992—the year of the first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—these companies have perfected greenwashing...
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