Editor’s Note: Over the past two years, we have brought you news about the fight for Thacker Pass, and how destruction will affect the indigenous people and the natural community. The destruction of Thacker Pass has already begun. Despite that, those who were fighting against the ecocide have not stopped. This is a call for action to support them in any way that you can.
On March 23, U.S. District Court Judge Miranda M. Du ruled against the tribes — the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Summit Lake Paiute Tribe, and the Burns Paiute Tribe — who argued that the Bureau of Land Management violated several laws when it permitted Lithium Americas on Jan. 15, 2021 to mine Thacker Pass. The tribes also alleged that the permission violates their access to historically and culturally significant sites.
The region is considered sacred by the tribes, who call it Peehee Mu’huh, or Rotten Moon in the Paiute language, because in 1865 the U.S. Federal Cavalry killed more than 30 men, women and children and then left their bodies to rot.
The full-scale destruction of Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu’huh, this sacred and wild place, has begun. This video was submitted to us anonymously several days ago.
As you read this, life and biodiversity is being bulldozed and destroyed. Ancient artifacts and the remains of ancestors are being crushed into dust. Water is being poisoned and the once-clean air is being fouled with toxic fumes.
And yet, despair is only for those who see the end beyond all shadow of a doubt. We do not.
This fight is not over. There are still court cases ongoing. Residents are rising up. Protesters are gathering. In times of darkness it is most important to look deep into your heart and walk with your head held high.
Never forget, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, that “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and… when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
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MY ECO LIST Previously published in The POET (UK) By David Sparenberg
This is not lifeless Saturn or Jupiter, the Moon, Venus, or Mars. Because a neighboring planet is named for a Roman goddess does not mean that women originate there as if from an unearthly temple of extraterrestrial love. Because another is named for a Roman god does not prove that men are hard wired and destined for war.
Here is Earth. Earth is a Life Place. We live here, only, always within a context of others also living.
Learn again to live appropriately with realities of the changing Earth. Clear your head (if you cannot blow your mind) open your heart reintroduce your suffering soul to the intricate complexities of creation. Initiate relationships.
Buy less, yes. Possess less, use less. Embrace the Prosperity of Appreciation. Do not regret what you give up rejoice instead in who you save.
Defend diversity. Cultivate maturity. Renounce violence. One imminent need is to democratize our ability to respond to realities and discern difference between false and genuine needs.
Another imminent necessity is to advance “mustard seeding.” Transition from the solitude of awakening into a solidarity of commitment. Note that instead of transcendence I am favoring imminence and the dynamic constancy of transitional movement. An ancient modality. Don’t let the garden you cultivate become overly tame!
Magic of the here and now is participatory art and natural science. Magic of the metamorphic empowers dreams and reverent dread as well as excitation of awe-inspiring wonder.
Make choices that are Acts of Beauty choices for seven generations. Embody delight. Be amorous with circles. Consciously, conscientiously joyously: evolve! evolve! evolve!
Attend a Council of All Beings. Think like a mountain or at least your favorite tree. Envy pollen dusted busy working bees. Sing with whales. Whales are profound singers!