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"Mining Lithium Violates Indigenous Rights and Permanently Pollutes the Earth!" [2:10 min]
by Robin Greenfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwvMKUXYmOo

Quote by RG:
"Apr 15, 2022
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.
TAKE ACTION !
[Remember this quote is over 3 yrs old !]
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!
Join us in speaking out against this desecration! CALL EVERY DAY! PRESSURE DECISION MAKERS.

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).
2. CALL Raul Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee at (202) 225-2435 (or contact at -> grijalva.house.gov/contact-raul/ <- and ask him to investigate the human rights crimes being committed at Thacker Pass against Native American Tribes!
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).
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).

TALKING POINTS! Express your opposition to this project and demand the permits be rejected and rolled back.
* Introduce yourself. If you’re a tribal member, or have relevant qualifications, say so.
* Say "I am concerned about the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine in Northern Nevada."
* 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!"
* Use facts from:
-> protectthackerpass.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Fact-Sheet-v3.pdf <-
* Say "Thank you."

MORE YOU CAN DO:
SIGN UP for Protect Thacker Pass updates: -> protectthackerpass.org <-
FOLLOW US on social media and help spread the word. Use #ProtectThackerPass
EDUCATE yourself by studying material at -> protectthackerpass.org <-
SPEAK: Write letters to the editor to local and regional papers in Nevada, surrounding states, and globally.
BE PREPARED to come to the site to protest the illegal desecration!

#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown

#PrayerHorseRide Prepares for Sacred Journey 2025

"We do not sell our #MotherEarth 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, #WaterProtector, #PrayerHorseRider and a member of #AIM Northern Nevada.

By Prayer Horse Ride, via #CensoredNews

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 (#Paiute) and Newe (#Shoshone), through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth, Nixon, Lovelock to McDermitt, and ending near Orovada, honoring #PeeheeMuhuh (#ThackerPass in the McDermitt Caldera).

"Those Riders, Walkers, and Runners carry the prayerful energy with each community. They'll move forward to raise awareness regarding water usage and #NativeAmericanGraves Protection and
Repatriation Act concerns about #lithium mining in Peehee Mu'huh and within the McDermitt Caldera.

"The Ride also raises awareness of several #EndangeredSpecies in #FishLakeValley (#TecopaBirdsBeak, #TiehmsBuckwheat, and #TuiChub), a place Newe gathered foods and medicines, held sacred ceremonies, and where a proposed lithium boron mine would violate the #AmericanIndianReligiousFreedomAct."

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024

"In the #GilaRiver Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to #NativeAmerican children who were victims of U.S. #BoardingSchools. His glory campaign was short-lived.

"As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: 'There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! #LandBack!'

"Calling out to Biden, she said, 'What about the people in #Gaza! What about the people in #Palestine?'

"'How can you apologize for a #genocide while actively committing a genocide in Palestine! #FreePalestine.'

"Security removed her."

#NoMiningWithoutConsent #TruthAndReconciliation #Hulapai #ProtectHaKamwe #ProtectThackerPass #SaveOakFlat #RioTinto #CulturalGenocide #DefendTheSacred #StolenChildren #MMIW #WhiteMesa #LosAlamos #BigMountain

I’m a “battle born” rural Nevadan. That is exactly why I support #LandBack. 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.

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.

#Pehemuha #ProtectThackerPass #Nevada #Environment

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/donate/

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.

#ProtectThackerPass #NoMoreMines #Nevada #Environment #LandBack

[Photos] #PrayerHorseRide to Peehee Mu'huh

Nanesootuhina Pookoo Goobakatudu

#CensoredNews, March 28, 2024
Photos by Melissa Robles-Dyer

Peehee Mu'huh (#ThackerPass) -- "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 #unceded lands of the #Paiute, #Shoshone and #Bannock.

"'We do this prayer ride to reconnect our way of life,' said #JoshDiniSr., #WalkerRiverPaiute, #WaterProtector and #PrayerHorseRider.

"The Prayer Horse Ride is to raise awareness about #LithiumMining in #McDermittCaldera, and also #CopperMining in the #PineNutHills, in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/People (#MMIW / #MMIP). Riders are revitalizing cultural identity, languages and lifeways in #Indigenous communities."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/prayer-horse-ride-to-peehee-muhuh.html

#ProtectThackerPass #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousPeoples #PeeheeMuhuh #NoLithiumMining #EnvironmentalRacism #RecycleElectronics #RecycleLithium #LandBack #TraditionalLands #LithiumNevada #LithiumAmerica #RioTinto #CorporateColonialism

#ThackerPass protesters claim “biodiversity necessity defense” in court case with #LithiumNevada Corporation

By Kevin Sheridan
Published: Mar. 26, 2024

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (KOLO) - "Six protesters being sued by the Lithium Nevada Corporation are using what they are calling a 'biodiversity necessity defense'.

"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.'

"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.'

"'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.'

"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'.

"They further argue stopping the mine will prevent significant greenhouse gas emissions, and that their actions are justified because they are working to prevent #CimateChange."

https://www.kolotv.com/2024/03/26/thacker-pass-protesters-claim-biodiversity-necessity-defense-court-case-with-lithium-nevada-corporation/

#ClimateNecessityDefense #BiodiversityNecessityDefense #ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass
#PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #DirectAction #EarthDefenders #SacredSites #ProtectThackerPass

#ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

"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.’

"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.
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"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 #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

"'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction 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.'

"Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

"Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

#ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

Just Released: "Mining the Sacred: #IndigenousNations Fight #Lithium Gold Rush at #ThackerPass

Watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLO7ClVtlBA

"#Cree 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!'

IndigiNews Media and The Real News, September 12, 2023

Go watch! @IndigiNewsMedia @TheRealNews @ricochet_en

"Follow Native journalist Brandi Morin, who came from Canada, and covered this powerful story.

"In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local #Indigenous tribes and powerful state and #corporate 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 #environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action.

"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."

-- Mining the Sacred

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09/just-released-mining-sacred-indigenous.html

#IndigenousNews #LithiumMining #IndigenousRights #Greenwashing #Pauite #ProtectThackerPass #EnvironmentalRacism

#ThackerPass #protesters seek dismissal of lawsuit by #LithiumNevada on #freespeech grounds

By: Bob Conrad, August 23, 2023

"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.

"Lithium Nevada, which is building the Thacker Pass lithium mine, sued the protesters in late June.

"The company said activists and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute #Shoshone Tribe have attempted to block construction at the mine site.

"'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.

"The defendants disagreed with Lithium Nevada’s claims.

"'The Defendants opted to exercise their constitutional rights and went to the Mine site to pray for their ancestors as #LNC 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.'

"They also disputed LNC’s claims of violence and vandalism.

"'As a #sacred 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 #protest that is clearly protected by the U.S. Constitution. This is #corporate greed and bullying.'"

https://thisisreno.com/2023/08/thacker-pass-protesters-seek-dismissal-of-lawsuit-by-lithium-nevada-on-free-speech-grounds/

#CorporateGreen #ProtectThackerPass #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #protesters #Pauite

Indigenous women are leading mass protests against lithium mining in Argentina.

This story has gone almost entirely unreported in the English-language press.

A reminder: Lithium Americas co-owns the Coachari-Oloroz mine in Jujuy, Argentina.

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/indigenous-women-are-leading-mass

#pueblosoriginarios #jujuyresiste #abajolareforma #jujuy #ProtectThackerPass #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #lithium #mining #greenwashing

"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." @maxwilbert

#greenwashing #BrightGreenLies #lithium #EVs #lithium #mining #ecology #sustainability #degrowth #overshoot #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #ProtectThackerPass #biocentrism #soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOL_SvxdqW4

Thacker Pass is a Spiritual Battleground

#ProtectThackerPass #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #LoyaltyToLandAndLife #KeepItInTheGround #DefendTheSacred

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/thacker-pass-is-a-spiritual-battleground?

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.

That site is now being destroyed by bulldozers.

Their ongoing non-violent protest is now the subject of a lawsuit.

I encourage everyone, if they have it in their budget, to give to the defense fund.

#ProtectThackerPass
#BrightGreenLies
#LithiumNevada

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/lithium-nevada-lawsuit-aims-to-stop-tribal-members-and-allies-from-praying-at-sacred-site/a

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.

https://kolektiva.media/w/asNrMZAUMZ2FHAeW8YxSTM

#OxSam #DefendTheSacred #ProtectThackerPass #ÁguaÉVida #retomada #indígena #Paiute #Shoshone #Achuar #Wampis #Peru #CarroElétrico #LithiumMining #TerrasRatas #Tesla #ambientalismo #MudançasClimáticas #sustentabilidade #JustiçaClimática

Solidarity from Berlin with the indigenous-led resistance against lithium mining at Thacker Pass! #DefendTheLand #AllCarsAreBarricades
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RT @ProtectThPass
Blocking construction at Thacker Pass / Pee hee Mu'huh

#DefendTheLand #ProtectThackerPass #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh
https://twitter.com/ProtectThPass/status/1650908771919745026

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.

https://givebutter.com/messages/view/5000116d-0161-4e2f-9e14-abf7b3ef31c8

#ThackerPass #ProtectThackerPass

What Is #OpenPit #Mining

Definition, Examples, and Environmental Impact

By Rebecca Coffey, Updated July 26, 2022

"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 #erosion and #flooding.

"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.

"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 #radioactive to some degree.

"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.

"The explosives used in blasting release fumes rich in #smog- and #AcidRain-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.

" 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.

"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."

#OpenPit #Environment #Pollution #WaterIsLife #LithiumNevada #LithiumAmericas #Lithium #ThackerPass #WaterIsLife #PeeheeMuhuh #ProtectThackerPass

#OpenPit #mining is the WORST! It's been banned in #Maine and other places...

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.

Lithium mine near Oregon border threatens sacred cultural sites

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.

by Melanie Henshaw | 7 Mar 2023

- 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.

- 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.

- Arlan Melendez, chairman of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, said the #Trump 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.

- As part of President Joe #Biden’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.

#ProtectThackerPass #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #greenwashing #EVs #lithium #sacredsites #biodiversity #EnvironmentalRacism #CulturalGenocide

#ProtectThackerPass from the largest proposed lithium mine in the US. The Global conversation needs to move beyond the past or present and into the future.

We need to come together and respect the land rights of our #indigenous brothers and sisters.
#Anonymous

#ProtectThackerPass

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