#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

Thacker Pass is a Spiritual Battleground

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

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

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

Resistance to a proposed lithium mine at Peehee Mu'huh, in so-called Nevada, wildfires, heatwaves, floods, and an Indigenous seizure of oil tankers in Peru in this special environmental episode of System Fail.

#OxSam #DefendTheSacred #ProtectThackerPass #WaterIsLife #LandBack climatechange #sustainability #environmentaljustice

https://kolektiva.media/w/3ovS3UvpXV5Si3TohaKqwc

RT @ProtectThPass
#ProtectThackerPass #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #KeepItInTheGround #DefendTheLand #Lithium #Mining is #BrightGreenLies

RT @ProtectThPass
#KeepItInTheGround
#DefendTheLand
#Lithium #Mining is #BrightGreenLies
#EVs are #BrightGreenLies
#ProtectThackerPass
#ProtectPeeheeMuhuh
#LoyaltyToLandAndLife

RT @ProtectThPass
"Clean cars" is a luxury belief. Those of us who are lucky enough not to be impacted directly by the dirty realities of mining, refining, manufacturing, waste, and pollution are the only ones who can afford these beliefs.

#EVs are #BrightGreenLies #ProtectThackerPass

RT @ProtectThPass
#Lithium is not green, neither is copper, cobalt, nickel, manganese, or carbon (fossil fuels)--all required to build EVs.

We fight for the natural world. We #DefendTheLand. We #ProtectThackerPass. Join us, work to #KeepItInTheGround.

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/

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

#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.

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

Read more: https://www.streetroots.org/news/2023/03/07/protecting-peehee-muhuh

#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

‘Lithium mine bulk sampling’ actually means cultural genocide

September 20, 2022

"Lithium Nevada Corporation (#LNC), the company behind the embattled #ThackerPass 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 #cultural sites.

"Will Falk, attorney for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and the Summit Lake #Paiute Tribe and co-founder of the opposition group #ProtectThackerPass, says this is a violation of federal law.

"'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.'

"'Thacker Pass is a living traditional cultural place where Paiute and #Shoshone 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.”"

#CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericans #Lithium #LithiumMining #Nevada #LandBack

Read more:
https://wholecommunity.news/2022/09/26/lithium-mine-bulk-sampling-actually-means-cultural-genocide/

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! #ProtectThackerPass #Lithium is #BrightGreenLies

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/

BREAKING: “This Fight Isn’t Over” – Three Tribes File New Lawsuit Challenging Thacker Pass Lithium Mine

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/breaking-this-fight-isnt-over--three-tribes-file-new-lawsuit-challenging-thacker-pass-lithium-mine/

#ThackerPass #ProtectThackerPass

Any batteries produced from #ThackerPass #lithium would most likely also include #cobalt from mines just like this. Yet another reason to #ProtectThackerPass - #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh - and stop $LAC.

Echoes of George Orwell: https://twitter.com/MaxWilbert/status/1437926373365006336

A new report on the transition to lithium looks at what it will actually take to go electric with our cars...

currently, companies like lithium america are plotting to steal Indigenous land and water for mines like the proposed Thacker Pass mine. in addition to ending our addiction to fossil fuels, we need to re-imagined transportation to focus on things like mass transit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research

#ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #ProtectThackerPass

A new report on the transition to lithium looks at what it will actually take to go electric with our cars...

currently, companies like lithium america are plotting to steal Indigenous land and water for mines like the proposef Thacker Pass mine - in addition to ending our addiction to fossil fuels, we need to re-imagined transportation to focus on things like mass transit

#ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #ProtectThackerPass

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research

Whose side are we on? The buckwheat's? Or the mining company's? Do we want the buckwheat to survive? Or do we want batteries and cars?
We fight for the buckwheat. Join us.

#LoyaltyToLandAndLife
#ProtectThackerPass

https://protectthackerpass.org/species-of-the

Whose side are we on? The #Lahontan cutthroat trout's? Or the mining company's? Do we want the trout to survive? Or do we want batteries and cars? We fight for the trout. Join us.

#LoyaltyToLandAndLife
#ProtectThackerPass

https://protectthackerpass.org/species-of-the-week-lahontan-cutthroat-trout/…

#LithiumAmericas is damaging #ThackerPass sacred sites right now! They are beginning to destroy the land.

#ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #ProtectThackerPass

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/lithium-americas-is-damaging-thacker