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Webinar with Will Falk: Protect Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

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Dear Friend, Please join NCRN on Wednesday August 25, 8 pm ET for a Webinar with Will Falk: Protect Thacker Pass. Will Falk is an attorney, writer, poet, activist, and organizer with Protect Thacker Pass. Protect Thacker Pass is an “independent, grassroots collective of people” protecting the land and all life from a proposed lithium … Continue reading Webinar with Will Falk: Protect Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass] →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Obstruction & Occupation

Electric Cars and Oil Both Accelerate Us Towards Ecological Collapse: From Line 3 to Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

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This article originally appeared in Protect Thacker Pass. By Max Wilbert 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, desertification and soil … Continue reading Electric Cars and Oil Both Accelerate Us Towards Ecological Collapse: From Line 3 to Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass] →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Colonialism & Conquest, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Obstruction & Occupation

Life and Lithium at Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

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This episode of Muse Ecology is a terrific podcast with interviews with members of the People of Red Mountain, local community members, campers at Thacker Pass, and other supporters of Protect Thacker Pass. In this episode in the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series, we hear diverse voices from the resistance to the proposed lithium … Continue reading Life and Lithium at Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass] →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling, Colonialism & Conquest, Lobbying

Tribal Members Aim to Stop Lithium Nevada Corporation From Digging Up Cultural Sites in Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

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Fort McDermitt, Nevada – As soon as July 29, 2021, Lithium Nevada Corporation (LNC) plans to begin removing cultural sites, artifacts, and possibly human remains belonging to the ancestors of the Paiute and Western Shoshone peoples for the proposed Thacker Pass open pit lithium mine. According to a motion for preliminary injunction filed by four environmental … Continue reading Tribal Members Aim to Stop Lithium Nevada Corporation From Digging Up Cultural Sites in Thacker Pass [Dispatches from Thacker Pass] →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Obstruction & Occupation

The Rush For White Gold [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

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by Austin Price, for Earth Island Journal SIXTEEN MILLION YEARS AGO, a volcano erupted over the Yellowstone hotspot near the present-day border of Oregon and Nevada. The blast expelled 1,000 cubic kilometers of rhyolite lava as the land collapsed into a 30-mile-long, keyhole-shaped caldera. Magma, ash, and other sediments entered the keyhole, and for the … Continue reading The Rush For White Gold [Dispatches from Thacker Pass] →
Culture of Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Direct Action, Strategy & Analysis, Education, Lobbying, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Obstruction & Occupation, Repression at Home

The Green Flame: Four Months at Protect Thacker Pass

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The protection camp at Thacker Pass, Peehee mu’huh, has been in place for more than four months. This episode is an update starting with a new recording from May 18th, as well as audio from recent video updates recorded on-site by Max Wilbert over the past month or so. Poem “Newspeak” by Trinity La Fey. … Continue reading The Green Flame: Four Months at Protect Thacker Pass →
Culture of Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, White Supremacy, Direct Action, Lobbying, Obstruction & Occupation

People of Red Mountain Statement of Opposition to Lithium Nevada Corp.’s Proposed Thacker Pass Open Pit Lithium Mine

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In this statement, Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu (the People of Red Mountain), oppose the proposed Lithium open pit mines in Thacker Pass. They describe the cultural and historical significance of Thacker Pass, and also the environmental and social problems the project will bring. We, Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu (the People of Red Mountain) and our … Continue reading People of Red Mountain Statement of Opposition to Lithium Nevada Corp.’s Proposed Thacker Pass Open Pit Lithium Mine →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Obstruction & Occupation, Repression at Home

Will Thacker Pass, At Last, Be Still? [Dispatches from Thacker Pass]

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On a late April morning in Thacker Pass, where some Paiute ancestors have been buried and some massacred, where some people want to dig out the dead to dig out lithium, I woke to a strange, wet snow that fell overnight a day before temperatures in the 70s were forecast. It seemed a bad omen. … Continue reading Will Thacker Pass, At Last, Be Still? [Dispatches from Thacker Pass] →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support

Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water

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In this article Rebecca Wildbear talks about how civilization is wasting our planet’s scarce water sources for mining in its desperate effort to continue this devastating way of life. By Rebecca Wildbear Nearly a third of the world lacks safe drinking water, though I have rarely been without. In a red rock canyon in Utah, … Continue reading Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water →
Alienation & Mental Health, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support, Women & Radical Feminism, Obstruction & Occupation

Where We Live

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Editor’s note: We are grateful to present this wonderful article by our appreciated guardian Trinity La Fey today. Original writing by DGR cadre, guardians and supporters makes the most powerful articles because it genuinely reflects our spirit, the deep empathy and love for the natural world that keeps us grassroots activists going, and gives insight … Continue reading Where We Live →