Protect Thacker Pass
We are an independent, grassroots collective of people resisting the Thacker Pass lithium mine. We work in solidarity with regional indigenous people. Thacker Pass, or Peehee mm’huh, is sacred land to the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone, and critical wildlife habitat. We invite all people with good hearts to help us stop the greenwashing!
JOIN US TO DEFEND THIS LAND!
A Word about Violence
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cops came looking for me yesterday. I was gone on a long walk to the south side of Thacker Pass, but Max Wilbert recorded the interaction. The cops claimed they are concerned about violence at Thacker Pass and they took particular issue...
How Corporations Work to Undermine Grassroots Resistance, and How to Stop Them
For 50 days, the Protect Thacker Pass camp has stood here in the mountains of northern Nevada, on Northern Paiute territory, to defend the land against a strip mine. Lithium Americas, a Canadian corporation, means to blow up, bulldoze, or pave 5,700 acres of this...
“Let’s Not Blow Up a Mountain and Call It Green”
Anti-mine protests and lawsuits pick up the pace at Nevada’s Thacker Pass, the site of the largest known lithium deposit in the United States. by AUSTIN PRICE, March 4, 2021 for Earth Island Journal In January, the day the BLM approved the mine, environmentalists Max...
Photos from Thacker Pass
