We are a group of people who are resisting the Thacker Pass lithium mining project. We believe this land should be protected forever.

Joined January 2021
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Press Release: Activists Sued by Mining Company Tell Their Stories The “Thacker Pass Six,” sued in 2023 following protests, include a disabled Paiute spiritual elder, a Shoshone mother of four, and a Tribal attorney. protectthackerpass.org/blog/

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Someone has created a FAKE facebook profile to scam Protect Thacker Pass supporters. If this profile has friended you on FB, please unfriend immediately and report. Do NOT share any personal information with this profile.
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Please join us for our live event if you can; it is being recorded if you cannot join. Please check out our online auction or donate directly to our legal defense. Talk is cheap — but direct action isn't! Thank you!!! givebutter.com/c/ProtectThac…
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Reminder: Join us at our live event on Wednesday May 29, 5pm PT (8pm ET). You can find all the details about how to join here: protectthackerpass.org/prote… We'll share updates on the mine and the status of the lawsuit against us by the mining company.

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As part of the event we are also offering the opportunity to bid on books, art, drums, and other items offered by the defendants. The auction is live now on our fundraising site: givebutter.com/c/ProtectThac… Help us defend the land and defend ourselves. Thank you supporters! 💚🙏
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Protect Thacker Pass is hosting a live event on Wednesday May 29 at 5pm PT: Update on SLAPP lawsuit against Thacker Pass Water Protectors. Join here: facebook.com/events/16222256… Hear from attorneys assisting our legal defense about the first-ever Biodiversity Necessity Defense.
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We hope to see you at the live event. We'll be offering items donated by the defendants for auction during the event. Please share! 🙏💚 The best way you can help us fight this lawsuit is to donate to our legal defense. Please give what you can! givebutter.com/ProtectThacke…
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"Landscape immunity": fewer zoonotic diseases spill from intact diverse ecosystems than from fragmented species-poor ones. No force compromises immunity quite like a highway. "If you want to prevent pandemics, you have to think about roads." -- Ben Goldfarb, Crossings
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Motorized transportation inflicts suffering on an almost unimaginable scale; there may be nothing humans do that causes more misery to more wild animals than driving. -- Ben Goldfarb, Crossings. #DefendTheLand #ProtectNature #BiodiversityCrisis #EndCarCulture
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Almost the entire McDermitt Caldera, home to so many wild beings from wildflowers to eagles to pronghorn, is on the chopping block for lithium development. We must not let this happen. #DefendTheLand #BiodiversityCrisis #ProtectNature
Vociferous early morning Rock Wren slightly damp from dew in McDermitt Caldera Montana Mountains. Wren went from the hopping in rocks to perching on a nearby habitat kiss of death - a Lithium Nevada claims stake. Thacker miner has huge claims up here that must NEVER be developed.
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Nickel mining for EV batteries in Indonesia is obliterating forest, destroying villages, and poisoning water. These are photos of expanding nickel mines in Obi Island, Indonesia. #EVs are #BrightGreenLies
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Dear Supporters: We're raising funds for our legal defense in the lawsuit Lithium Nevada filed against six people including three Native folks, and Protect Thacker Pass. Here's a video explaining more. You can donate here: protectthackerpass.org/donat… 🙏💚 youtu.be/QrL2dyAhBKY

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These beautiful birds will lose more of their home if further mining proceeds in McDermitt Caldera. Where will they live when the mines go in? They will probably die (since other shrike territory is already taken). #DefendTheLand #BiodiversityCrisis #BirdLife #Birding #Wildlife
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@WLDefense Loggerhead Shrike in McDermitt Caldera amid lithium claims. The hooked bill is for nabbing big insects, little birds, voles, and small snakes - and then sometimes impaling them on thorns, broken branches, barbed wire. Quite the powerful predatory songbird.
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Beauty and life on land slated for destruction for lithium. #DefendTheLand!!
Lovely scented indigo & white lupine (L. Brevicaulis?) in the McDermitt Caldera Montana Mountains blooming right now - and full of surprises. Look out for spider talons/legs if you bend down to wallow in the smell.
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#DefendTheLand We support Marš sa Drine fighting to defend the land in Serbia.
We don’t care for colonialist regulations or social acceptance schemes. We don’t care if it’s an Australian or Chinese company. We don’t want a lithium mine in the most fertile region of Serbia. Period. And we'll support all land protectors worldwide who are in this fight as well
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One way companies can be involved in attacks is by bringing lawsuits against critics. Lithium Nevada Corporation sued 7 people & @ProtectThPass seeking millions in damages & a ban from Thacker Pass Lithium Mine construction sites. 2/ Company's response: business-humanrights.org/en/…
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