by Max Wilbert | Sep 3, 2021 | Project updates, Reflection
Earlier today, Judge Miranda Du rejected requests from the Reno-Sparks Indian Tribe, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu/People of Red Mountain to put an emergency halt on planned archeological digging for the Thacker Pass lithium mine. As I watch Lithium...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 27, 2021 | Reflection
The great poet and playwright James Baldwin wrote in 1953 that “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.” Perhaps never has this been truer than in this era of converging ecological crises: global warming, biodiversity collapse,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 23, 2021 | Reflection
The plan to “electrify everything” that is rapidly taking over all economic and policy planning around the world means that mining for metals and minerals will increase dramatically to supply demand for technologies like EVs and so much more. Take a look...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 9, 2021 | Reflection
By Justin McAffee for the Sierra Nevada Ally, July 9, 2021 What if I told you that Glenn Miller’s opinion piece about the Thacker Pass lithium project was a form of climate change denialism? He argues that lithium is necessary to convert our automobile transportation...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
Two hundred years ago, the place where I sit writing these words was the site of a massacre. According to Harley Jackson, an elder from the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, the story goes like this. A group of Northern Paiute / Western Shoshone / Bannock people,...
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