by Will Falk | May 4, 2023 | Reflection
My love is a mountain pass. Older than me, and far more experienced, I did not know who wooed who, or why. When she looked at me with great basin starlight, that very first night, it was love at first sight. I never needed more than to merely brush my tender way...
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 Max Wilbert | Dec 14, 2022 | Reflection
In short: to protect themselves from accountability for their crimes. Lithium Americas Corporation is splitting into two companies: Lithium Americas (which will own Thacker Pass and other North American projects) and Lithium International (which will own...
by Will Falk | Dec 4, 2022 | Reflection
Hard as a Rock I did not know who to beuntil I took the weightof a place on my shoulders. I wasn’t a camel,but I bowed downto take mountains upon mountains,eagles, eggs, and nests,streams, cutthroat trout,sagebrush and sage grouse,jack rabbits, rattle snakes,and shy...
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