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Thacker Pass Lithium Mine [1]

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Date: 2022-12-20

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

Join PLAN, People of Red Mountain, Reno Sparks Indian Colony, Great Basin Resource Watch, Earthworks, at the courthouse to stand in community during the court proceedings that will decide the fate of the Thacker Pass lithium mine. This mine was rushed through the planning and permitting process, and should it go through, would desecrate a site sacred to Western Shoshone and Paiute people. We will be marching mindfully and in community with one another from Reno Sparks Indian Colony to the federal courthouse (400 South Virginia Street, Room 705, Reno, NV 89501). For people with access needs who are unable to walk, please meet us at the Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse at 9 AM. Hot beverages will be provided once at the courthouse. Please make sure to dress appropriately for the weather.https://www.mobilize.us/planevada/event/544937/



There are some in the community who think they, we, are being ignored because the Groovy Californians like their EVs, which they pretend are at the core of the new carbon-centered economy, because they like their cars and suburbs, and their EVs make them feel good.



That does sound a tad like my California!



If you can’t or won’t join us at the Colony or Courthouse, please join in a conversation so that we can best help our friends and neighbors in the Colony and across the great sagebrush empire, who maintain a long and lonely watch as stewards of this land.



This land is “sacred to Western Shoshone and Paiute people.” It must also be sacred to the descendants of the people who perpetrated genocide on them. Some of my ancestors settled on this land; as a child my grandmother lived on a failing alfalfa farm in the area. The horrible massacre, thoroughly attested in contemporaneous (and grossly gleeful) accounts in the local press and described as “alleged” in the Court filings, is part of my history, my family’s history, as are all the other atrocities of what were called the Snake Wars.

I thank the first responders, in the picture above, for saving our hard history for all of us.



I ask those who can, to provide such support as they can to our friends and neighbors in our sagebrush empire.

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