by Will Falk | May 20, 2021 | Reflection
Most people when they first arrive at Thacker Pass declare that she is very beautiful. She is very beautiful, yes, but she is also very sick – so sick, in fact, that her sickness is becoming terminal. It is not difficult to see. Take a walk along on any of the dirt...
by Will Falk | May 6, 2021 | Reflection
When you find yourself bitter that no one seems to care, when you’ve tricked yourself that you’re all alone, when you’ve fought longer than you thought you could and the war has just begun, look for the little ones, the creatures underfoot and overhead, our tiny...
by Will Falk | Apr 27, 2021 | Reflection
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...
by Will Falk | Apr 23, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection hosted an informational meeting about the public participation process coming up for two state air and water permits that Lithium Nevada still needs for their proposed Thacker Pass open pit mine. An NDEP employee told...
by Will Falk | Apr 14, 2021 | Reflection
Thacker Pass remembers when the hairy, pale-skinned men came to round up her people and drag them away to the forts. The hoofbeats of cavalry warhorses thundered through the basin. Pistols popped and carbines cracked. Children and elders hid in the red shadows of the...
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