Newe Cultural Days, Pooha-Bah Traditional Healing Center, March 11 -- 12, 2023

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At the Nevada Test Site, standing against the nuclear devastation of atomic bomb testing on Western Shoshone land: Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney and Pauline Esteves. Photo University of Nevada Las Vegas Special Collections.

Newe Cultural Days, Pooha-Bah Traditional Healing Center,  March 11 -- 12, 2023

 

Lithium Americas begins mine construction on Paiute Massacre Site today March 2, 2023

Thacker Pass Credit: Spenser Heaps

Lithium Americas announced this morning it is beginning construction on the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass. As usual, an environmental impact statement was rubber-stamped, and the courts complied with the corporation. -- Censored News

Calling it consultation, Lithium Americas held a meeting with Fort McDermitt Paiute in their community in northern Nevada in February. Earlier, the tribal chairman and his family members were hosted by Lithium Americas during a facility opening in Reno in 2022. Fort McDermitt Paiute community members said they were never told of an agreement made with Lithium Americas by some members. Paiute and Shoshone protested outside the federal court in January, but the court failed to halt the lithium mine. Three Native American Nations have filed another lawsuit to halt it -- the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe and Summit Lake Paiute. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court refused to issue an emergency injunction to halt the lithium mine, which is being pushed as "green energy" by the Biden administration. -- Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/now-lithium-americas-meeting-with-fort.html

LITHIUM AMERICAS COMMENCES CONSTRUCTION AT THACKER PASS

Press statement by Lithium Americas

March 2, 2023 – Vancouver, Canada: Lithium Americas Corp. (TSX: LAC) (NYSE: LAC) (“Lithium Americas” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the commencement of construction at its 100%-owned Thacker Pass lithium project (“Thacker Pass” or the “Project”) in Humboldt County, Nevada, following the receipt of notice to proceed from the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”).

Indigenous join defense of forest in Atlanta following police shooting of Tortuguita

 

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"The morning of Jan. 18, the same multi-jurisdictional task force, including Georgia State Patrol SWAT teams, gathered outside Weelaunee before entering the woods to confront tree sitters and protesters. A forest defender who was in the woods on the morning of the raid recounted their experience with Unicorn Riot on the condition of anonymity." Tortuguita was shot at least 13 times, the family said.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/tortuguita-vive-a-no-compromise-movement-responds-to-police-killing-a-forest-defender/

A rain-dappled photograph of Tortuguita is the centerpiece of a memorial for the slain protestor at Weelaunee People’s Park. -- Photo by Unicorn Riot

Inside the Bunkers: Remembering Wounded Knee

Madonna Thunder Hawk joins Kiowa Lavetta Yeahquo, moderator Robert Pilot, and Wounded Knee attorney Fran Olsen and remembers when Oglala Lakota stood up at Wounded Knee, in a stand that shook the world. Photo Warrior Women Project.

Inside the Bunkers: Remembering Wounded Knee

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

PORCUPINE, Oglala Lakota Nation -- Warrior women of Wounded Knee joined a reporter and an attorney to remember the 71 days of Wounded Knee, from the bunkers to the courtroom. Bullets whizzed by their ears as they resisted the heavily armed GOONS and the U.S. militarized assault on the people.

"Wounded Knee was just a spark, today we have flames," said Madonna Thunder Heart, Lakota, during a panel discussion of the Warrior Women Project on Saturday, during the 50th Anniversary of Wounded Knee in Porcupine on Pine Ridge.

Apache Stronghold Spiritual Convoy to Federal Court, March 12 --- 21, 2023