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JdeB<p>830b <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> [2] <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> </p><p>"Mining Lithium Violates Indigenous Rights and Permanently Pollutes the Earth!" [2:10 min]<br>by Robin Greenfield</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwvMKUXYmOo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=GwvMKUXYmO</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a> </p><p>Quote by RG:<br>"Apr 15, 2022 <br>The growth of the electric car industry is being used as an excuse to further violate Indigenous rights and permanently pollute and destroy natural resources. The mining process uses 2 billion gallons of water per year from already depleted groundwater and 11300 gallons of diesel per day. It releases carcinogenic compounds into a critical water supply to create batteries that are not built to be recycled. This upcoming documentary explores the nuanced true cost of green energy and offers alternative solutions in this critical time.<br> TAKE ACTION ! <br>[Remember this quote is over 3 yrs old !]<br>This is a CRITICAL MOMENT for the Thacker Pass opposition. The State of Nevada recently issued permits allowing the mining company to pollute air and water, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing to desecrate the sacred sites of Peehee Mu'huh by digging up the resting places of those killed in the 1865 Thacker Pass massacre!<br> Join us in speaking out against this desecration! CALL EVERY DAY! PRESSURE DECISION MAKERS.<br> <br>1. CALL Secretary of the Interior and ask her to revoke the permits for the Thacker Pass lithium mine and allow access to the site for traditional ceremonies! Ask that the Department of the Interior order the Bureau of Land Management to stop any disturbance of cultural sites and Native American human remains in Thacker Pass so that meaningful, government-to-government consultation can happen with local tribes. And finally, request that Secretary Haaland personally meet with representatives of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Winnemucca Indian Colony to hear their concerns about the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project. Call 202-208-3100, then Press 3, then press 0 to leave a comment, or email feedback@ios.doi.gov (and copy your email to contact@protectthackerpass.org).<br> 2. CALL Raul Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee at (202) 225-2435 (or contact at -&gt; grijalva.house.gov/contact-raul/ &lt;- and ask him to investigate the human rights crimes being committed at Thacker Pass against Native American Tribes!<br> 3. CALL Far Western Anthropological Research Group, and tell them they are about to desecrate a sacred site against the wishes of regional tribes! Call both numbers, (530) 756-3941 and (775) 847-0223, or emailcraig@farwestern.com (and copy your email tocontact@protectthackerpass.org).<br> 4. CALL Kathleen Rehberg, BLM Field Manager at Humboldt River Field Office and ask her to remove the trespass signs at Thacker Pass to allow native people to engage in ceremony and visit sacred sites. Tell her this illegal project will not stand! 775-623-1739 or krehberg@blm.gov (and copy your email to contact@protectthackerpass.org).<br> <br>TALKING POINTS! Express your opposition to this project and demand the permits be rejected and rolled back.<br> * Introduce yourself. If you’re a tribal member, or have relevant qualifications, say so.<br>* Say "I am concerned about the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine in Northern Nevada."<br>* Tell them that "Three federally-recognized tribes have sued the BLM over this project, alleging there was NO consultation with native tribes. This is illegal!"<br>* Use facts from: <br>-&gt; protectthackerpass.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Fact-Sheet-v3.pdf &lt;-<br>* Say "Thank you."<br> <br>MORE YOU CAN DO:<br>SIGN UP for Protect Thacker Pass updates: -&gt; protectthackerpass.org &lt;-<br>FOLLOW US on social media and help spread the word. Use <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a><br>EDUCATE yourself by studying material at -&gt; protectthackerpass.org &lt;-<br>SPEAK: Write letters to the editor to local and regional papers in Nevada, surrounding states, and globally.<br>BE PREPARED to come to the site to protest the illegal desecration!</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StopBurningThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopBurningThings</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StopEcoside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopEcoside</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StopThePlunder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopThePlunder</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StopRapingNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopRapingNature</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateBreakDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateBreakDown</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRide</span></a> Prepares for Sacred Journey 2025</p><p>"We do not sell our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> or profit off of her, Mother Earth is here to take care of us and teach us our natural ways of Life! I pray we all stand to protect our Mother,” - Josh Dini, Sr., Walker River Pauite Tribe, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtector</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRider</span></a> and a member of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> Northern Nevada.</p><p>By Prayer Horse Ride, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a></p><p>SCHURZ, Nevada -- "The Prayer Horse Ride is getting ready to begin our 4th annual sacred journey March 21st – April 2nd, across Nevada in the ancestral lands of the Numu (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a>) and Newe (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a>), through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth, Nixon, Lovelock to McDermitt, and ending near Orovada, honoring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> in the McDermitt Caldera). </p><p>"Those Riders, Walkers, and Runners carry the prayerful energy with each community. They'll move forward to raise awareness regarding water usage and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanGraves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanGraves</span></a> Protection and<br>Repatriation Act concerns about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> mining in Peehee Mu'huh and within the McDermitt Caldera.<br> <br>"The Ride also raises awareness of several <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndangeredSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredSpecies</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FishLakeValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FishLakeValley</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TecopaBirdsBeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TecopaBirdsBeak</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TiehmsBuckwheat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TiehmsBuckwheat</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TuiChub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuiChub</span></a>), a place Newe gathered foods and medicines, held sacred ceremonies, and where a proposed lithium boron mine would violate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianReligiousFreedomAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianReligiousFreedomAct</span></a>."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/prayer-horse-ride-prepares-for-sacred.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/prayer-horse-ride-prepares-for-sacred.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForMyronDewey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForMyronDewey</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredPlaces</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenWashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIWG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIWG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerRide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town </p><p>By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024</p><p>"In the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GilaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GilaRiver</span></a> Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> children who were victims of U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BoardingSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoardingSchools</span></a>. His glory campaign was short-lived. </p><p>"As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: 'There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a>!' </p><p>"Calling out to Biden, she said, 'What about the people in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>! What about the people in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>?' </p><p>"'How can you apologize for a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> while actively committing a genocide in Palestine! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a>.' </p><p>"Security removed her."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TruthAndReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TruthAndReconciliation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hulapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hulapai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectHaKamwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectHaKamwe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenChildren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StolenChildren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigMountain</span></a></p>
Aunty Bee<p>I’m a “battle born” rural Nevadan. That is exactly why I support <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a>. What remains of Nevada, being destroyed by the corporate state, should be returned to Paiute, Washo, and Shoshone stewardship - perhaps under UN auspices as a biosphere and permacultural preserve. Immediately.</p><p>And that should only be the beginning. The power regimes colonialism brought to this sacred land are altogether evil, must be abolished for all time.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Pehemuha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pehemuha</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a></p>
Aunty Bee<p><a href="https://www.protectthackerpass.org/donate/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">protectthackerpass.org/donate/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Please help protect Pehemuha / Thacker Pass from mining cartel Lithium Americas by donating to land defenders targeted by said corporation with persecutory SLAPP lawsuits. This cartel has pursued mining the sacred Nevada site illegally on unceded land without any indigenous consultation, fast tracked and hushed up by the corrupt BLM.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/NoMoreMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMoreMines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Photos] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRide</span></a> to Peehee Mu'huh</p><p>Nanesootuhina Pookoo Goobakatudu</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, March 28, 2024<br>Photos by Melissa Robles-Dyer</p><p>Peehee Mu'huh (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a>) -- "The Prayer Horse Ride, March 17-26, began in Schurz on its jouney to Peehee Mu’huh, Thacker Pass. The ride is in the traditional, ancestral and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unceded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unceded</span></a> lands of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bannock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bannock</span></a>.</p><p>"'We do this prayer ride to reconnect our way of life,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoshDiniSr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoshDiniSr</span></a>., <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WalkerRiverPaiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WalkerRiverPaiute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtector</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRider</span></a>.</p><p>"The Prayer Horse Ride is to raise awareness about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McDermittCaldera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McDermittCaldera</span></a>, and also <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PineNutHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PineNutHills</span></a>, in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/People (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIP</span></a>). Riders are revitalizing cultural identity, languages and lifeways in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities."</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/prayer-horse-ride-to-peehee-muhuh.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/prayer-horse-ride-to-peehee-muhuh.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleElectronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleElectronics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalLands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> protesters claim “biodiversity necessity defense” in court case with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> Corporation</p><p>By Kevin Sheridan<br>Published: Mar. 26, 2024</p><p>WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (KOLO) - "Six protesters being sued by the Lithium Nevada Corporation are using what they are calling a 'biodiversity necessity defense'.</p><p>"They say the defense is 'a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.'</p><p>"This week’s filing states that the 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of ecocide and irreversible climate change.'</p><p>"'We’re in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by biodiversity and ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'</p><p>"In a filing with the court, Lodge and other attorneys claimed the company had 'unclean hands', and that Lithium Nevada has 'engaged in serious misconduct including violating the Defendants’ human rights, Defendants’ civil rights, misleading the public about the impacts of lithium mining and how lithium mining contributes to climate change and biodiversity collapse, and conducting the inherently dangerous and ecologically destructive practice of surface mining at the Thacker Pass mine'.</p><p>"They further argue stopping the mine will prevent significant greenhouse gas emissions, and that their actions are justified because they are working to prevent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CimateChange</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.kolotv.com/2024/03/26/thacker-pass-protesters-claim-biodiversity-necessity-defense-court-case-with-lithium-nevada-corporation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kolotv.com/2024/03/26/thacker-</span><span class="invisible">pass-protesters-claim-biodiversity-necessity-defense-court-case-with-lithium-nevada-corporation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateNecessityDefense</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityNecessityDefense</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPassProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPassProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPPs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protectors</span></a> File First-Ever '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityNecessityDefense</span></a>' in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> Court</p><p>While pursuing a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateNecessityDefense</span></a>,' and making allegations that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'</p><p>Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greedy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> on the wrong side of history when it comes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> and desecration of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a>. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, March 26, 2024</p><p>"In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’</p><p>"The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.<br>.<br>"This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecocide</span></a> and irreversible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>.' </p><p>"'We’re in the midst of the 6th <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a> of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a>. 'Our lives are made possible by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a>. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'</p><p>"Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history. </p><p>"Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sagebrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sagebrush</span></a> steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/6thMassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>6thMassExtinction</span></a>.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPassProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPassProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPPs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDefenders</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Just Released: "Mining the Sacred: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNations</span></a> Fight <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> Gold Rush at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> </p><p>Watch now:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLO7ClVtlBA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=uLO7ClVtlB</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cree</span></a> Journalist Brandi Morin said, 'We are taking back the narrative and this story about North America’s largest lithium mine being constructed while violating sacred Indigenous territories is told from the Native perspective. The 'green' energy revolution isn’t what you think it is!' </p><p>IndigiNews Media and The Real News, September 12, 2023</p><p>Go watch! @IndigiNewsMedia @TheRealNews @ricochet_en</p><p>"Follow Native journalist Brandi Morin, who came from Canada, and covered this powerful story.</p><p>"In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> tribes and powerful state and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, but for more than two years several local tribes and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action. </p><p>"The Thacker Pass Project is backed by the Biden administration, and companies like General Motors have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, looking to capitalize on the transition to a 'green energy economy,' for which lithium is essential. While it is a vital component in the manufacturing of electric vehicles and batteries, though, there’s nothing “green” about mining lithium. Ending our addiction to fossil fuels is urgently necessary, but the struggle of the local tribes around Thacker Pass reveals the dark side of a 'green revolution' that prioritizes profit and consumption over everything (and everyone) else."</p><p> -- Mining the Sacred</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09/just-released-mining-sacred-indigenous.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09</span><span class="invisible">/just-released-mining-sacred-indigenous.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> seek dismissal of lawsuit by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> grounds</p><p>By: Bob Conrad, August 23, 2023</p><p>"The Thacker Pass protesters who were hit with a lawsuit filed by Lithium Nevada are seeking to get the case dismissed. The defendants last week filed a motion to dismiss the case claiming they were exercising their right to free speech.</p><p>"Lithium Nevada, which is building the Thacker Pass lithium mine, sued the protesters in late June. </p><p>"The company said activists and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> Tribe have attempted to block construction at the mine site.</p><p>"'Despite multiple warnings from law enforcement not to block public roads, Defendants have continued to do so,' the lawsuit alleges. 'Indeed, Defendants have proudly broadcasted their defiance of law enforcement on social media.</p><p>"The defendants disagreed with Lithium Nevada’s claims.</p><p>"'The Defendants opted to exercise their constitutional rights and went to the Mine site to pray for their ancestors as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNC</span></a> destroyed those ancestors’ final resting places, destroyed culturally significant lands formerly used for subsistence and self-preservation,' they wrote in their motion. 'It is appropriate to analyze whether LNC has established the elements of its claims for relief within the limitations imposed by the First Amendment.'</p><p>"They also disputed LNC’s claims of violence and vandalism. </p><p>"'As a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a> site is being bulldozed, non-violent protesters are being criminalized by a foreign mining company,' said attorney Terry Lodge, representing the defendants. 'My clients were engaged in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> that is clearly protected by the U.S. Constitution. This is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> greed and bullying.'"<br> <br><a href="https://thisisreno.com/2023/08/thacker-pass-protesters-seek-dismissal-of-lawsuit-by-lithium-nevada-on-free-speech-grounds/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thisisreno.com/2023/08/thacker</span><span class="invisible">-pass-protesters-seek-dismissal-of-lawsuit-by-lithium-nevada-on-free-speech-grounds/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a></p>
Woodland Dave<p>"At root we are not separate from this land, we are not separate from the water, from these Red-tailed Hawks. I'm connected, in fact I'm inseparable from all of these 'others'. The minerals that make up my body are from these stones." <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ieji.de/@maxwilbert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>maxwilbert</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BrightGreenLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrightGreenLies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EVs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/overshoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overshoot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ProtectPeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectPeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/biocentrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biocentrism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/soul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soul</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOL_SvxdqW4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=jOL_SvxdqW</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p>
Paul Ashby<p>Since January 2021, Max Wilbert and supporters -- including indigenous peoples who lived on this land for centuries -- have occupied BLM land at the proposed site of a massive lithium mine. </p><p>That site is now being destroyed by bulldozers. </p><p>Their ongoing non-violent protest is now the subject of a lawsuit. </p><p>I encourage everyone, if they have it in their budget, to give to the defense fund.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BrightGreenLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrightGreenLies</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.protectthackerpass.org/lithium-nevada-lawsuit-aims-to-stop-tribal-members-and-allies-from-praying-at-sacred-site/a" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">protectthackerpass.org/lithium</span><span class="invisible">-nevada-lawsuit-aims-to-stop-tribal-members-and-allies-from-praying-at-sacred-site/a</span></a></p>
Submedia PT<p>Resistência a um projeto de mina de lítio em Peehee Mu'huh, na chamada Nevada, incêndios florestais, ondas de calor, inundações e uma apreensão indígena de navios petroleiros no Peru neste episódio ambiental especial de Falha de Sistema. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.media/w/asNrMZAUMZ2FHAeW8YxSTM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.media/w/asNrMZAUMZ2F</span><span class="invisible">HAeW8YxSTM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OxSam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OxSam</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%81gua%C3%89Vida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ÁguaÉVida</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/retomada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retomada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ind%C3%ADgena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indígena</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Achuar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Achuar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wampis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wampis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peru</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarroEl%C3%A9trico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarroElétrico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TerrasRatas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TerrasRatas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ambientalismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ambientalismo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mudan%C3%A7asClim%C3%A1ticas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MudançasClimáticas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustentabilidade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustentabilidade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Justi%C3%A7aClim%C3%A1tica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustiçaClimática</span></a></p>
G. Gibson<p>The full-scale destruction of Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu’huh, this sacred and wild place, has begun. This video was submitted to us anonymously two days ago.</p><p><a href="https://givebutter.com/messages/view/5000116d-0161-4e2f-9e14-abf7b3ef31c8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">givebutter.com/messages/view/5</span><span class="invisible">000116d-0161-4e2f-9e14-abf7b3ef31c8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>What Is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> </p><p>Definition, Examples, and Environmental Impact</p><p>By Rebecca Coffey, Updated July 26, 2022</p><p>"Environmentally, open-pit mining is devastating. It consumes enormous amounts of water, heavily pollutes water and air, disfigures landscapes, and permanently destroys habitat. Even after pits are exhausted and sites are rehabilitated, the pit area retains elevated risks of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erosion</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flooding</span></a>.</p><p>"Heavy clouds of dust form during mining operations. Blasting alone is an enormous piece of the problem. In 2018 an international team of scientists publishing in E3S Web of Conferences reported that about 10 billion cubic meters of rock are exploded annually. The resulting clouds transport about 2.0-2.5 million tons of dust.</p><p>"The dust from drilling and blasting at some mines is highly radioactive. This is the case, for example, at uranium mines. The problem is not limited to well-known radioactive ores, however, as all ores are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> to some degree.</p><p>"Even when it’s not radioactive, dust containing heavy metals can be very dangerous. When it is breathed it can create a variety of respiratory problems including black lung disease.</p><p>"The explosives used in blasting release fumes rich in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/smog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smog</span></a>- and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcidRain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcidRain</span></a>-producing gases like highly toxic nitrogen dioxide. As far back as 1973 Soviet scientists reported that the smog can form in the pits themselves.In 2019 Chinese scientists reported that a mine-produced hydrochloric acid mist was caustic enough to corrode concrete.</p><p>" One of the most significant problems in open pit mining is also endemic to underground mining. The mineral pyrite is often found in coal mines. It contains sulfur. When pyrite is exposed and sulfur reacts with air and water, it forms an acid. Acidic water as well as any rock-bound heavy metals that the acid has dissolved leach out of the mines and into nearby rivers, lakes, and streams, killing aquatic life and making the water unusable.</p><p>"A 2021 study in the peer-reviewed journal Ecological Applications showed the elimination of 40% of the marine animal species in 93 bodies of water downstream from an area of Appalachia that has multiple open-pit mines. Especially problematic in relation to coal mining, acid mine drainage can continue for hundreds of years, even long after the mine has closed."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmericas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmericas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-open-pit-mining-definition-and-environmental-impact-5219892" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">treehugger.com/what-is-open-pi</span><span class="invisible">t-mining-definition-and-environmental-impact-5219892</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> is the WORST! It's been banned in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> and other places...</p><p>The electric car is here to save the environment — unless the environment in question is atop or around precious minerals like lithium needed in car batteries.</p><p>Lithium mine near Oregon border threatens sacred cultural sites</p><p>A federal appeals court greenlit a Canadian mining company’s massive open-pit lithium mine near the Oregon border in Nevada on March 1, dealing the latest blow to Native American tribes and environmentalists seeking to prevent mine construction.</p><p>by Melanie Henshaw | 7 Mar 2023</p><p>- The latest lawsuit alleges the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, and mining company Lithium Americas violated multiple laws in the planning process and that the project would destroy the site of an 1865 U.S. Army massacre of Paiute people.</p><p>- Water and land defenders, protesters who support Indigenous causes to prevent harm to water and land through extraction and development, are also protesting the mine.</p><p>- Arlan Melendez, chairman of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, said the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration fast-tracked the project, bypassing consultation with tribes but for a single letter sent to the three tribal nations closest to Peehee Mu’huh.</p><p>- As part of President Joe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>’s efforts to increase domestic production of the precious metals needed in electric vehicles, foreign and domestic mining companies are setting up shop across Turtle Island, applying for permits and beginning the mining process.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectPeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectPeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EVs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacredsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacredsites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a></p><p>Read more: <a href="https://www.streetroots.org/news/2023/03/07/protecting-peehee-muhuh" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">streetroots.org/news/2023/03/0</span><span class="invisible">7/protecting-peehee-muhuh</span></a></p>
AnonOpsUnited<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> from the largest proposed lithium mine in the US. The Global conversation needs to move beyond the past or present and into the future. </p><p>We need to come together and respect the land rights of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> brothers and sisters.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anonymous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anonymous</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>‘Lithium mine bulk sampling’ actually means cultural genocide</p><p>September 20, 2022 </p><p>"Lithium Nevada Corporation (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNC</span></a>), the company behind the embattled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> lithium mine project, has begun digging up portions of Thacker Pass for 'bulk sampling' despite consultation still being ongoing between the Bureau of Land Management and regional tribes over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cultural</span></a> sites.</p><p>"Will Falk, attorney for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and the Summit Lake <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Tribe and co-founder of the opposition group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a>, says this is a violation of federal law.</p><p>"'The Federal Government has not even meaningfully started consultation with tribes about the September 12, 1865 massacre site in Thacker Pass, let alone the earlier Peehee Mu’huh massacre described in oral history and the entire Thacker Pass Traditional Cultural District,' Falk said. 'But that doesn’t even begin to describe how much of a dirty trick this is. BLM is allowing the destruction of a massacre site without consulting, over the objections of multiple tribes and members of the public, using a permit more than a decade old.'</p><p>"'Thacker Pass is a living traditional cultural place where Paiute and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> people still gather to practice our culture,' says Michon Eben, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. 'The Snake War was the most violent Indian war in the west, and not a single site from this important event for our people is protected. BLM and Lithium Nevada are destroying our cultural heritage with this dig.”"</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://wholecommunity.news/2022/09/26/lithium-mine-bulk-sampling-actually-means-cultural-genocide/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wholecommunity.news/2022/09/26</span><span class="invisible">/lithium-mine-bulk-sampling-actually-means-cultural-genocide/</span></a></p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>Feb 16 three tribes filed a lawsuit challenging the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine. Please donate if you can to help us with legal and media support in this lawsuit. Thank you supporters! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> is <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BrightGreenLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrightGreenLies</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.protectthackerpass.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">protectthackerpass.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Max Wilbert<p>BREAKING NEWS: last night, three Native American Tribes launched a major new lawsuit against the Thacker Pass lithium mine.</p><p>Protect Thacker Pass is providing legal and media support. Please donate to support the case and fund legal costs (this is expensive even with amazing pro-bono lawyers)!</p><p>Press Release: <a href="https://www.protectthackerpass.org/breaking-this-fight-isnt-over--three-tribes-file-new-lawsuit-challenging-thacker-pass-lithium-mine/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">protectthackerpass.org/breakin</span><span class="invisible">g-this-fight-isnt-over--three-tribes-file-new-lawsuit-challenging-thacker-pass-lithium-mine/</span></a></p><p>Donate: <a href="https://givebutter.com/protectthackerpass" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">givebutter.com/protectthackerp</span><span class="invisible">ass</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ProtectPeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectPeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EVs</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/sacredsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacredsites</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a></p>