Native Americans Enter Legal Battle Against Thacker Pass Lithium Mine

Thacker Pass photo by Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone

Native Americans Enter Legal Battle Against Thacker Pass Lithium Mine 

Contact: Reno-Sparks Indian Colony 

Chairman Arlan Melendez 

People of Red Mountain 

PeopleOfRedMountain@gmail.com William Falk, Esq. 

Protect Thacker Pass 

falkwilt@gmail.com 

July 26, 2021

RENO, Nevada — In yet another blow to Lithium Americas' troubled Thacker Pass lithium mine, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and a group of Paiute and Shoshone people from the Fort McDermitt and  Duck Valley Indian Nations, Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu (People of Red Mountain,) filed a  motion in Federal District Court on Tuesday, July 20 alleging that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in permitting the project. The Paiute name for Thacker Pass is Pee hee mu'huh.  

Native Youth Runners Arrive at Red Lake Treaty Camp

Photo by Swan American Horse

Jasilyn Charger said, "We run for the water and land for my relatives who have passed and those yet to come. We give of our selves so those may live. We pray for those on the front lines hoka stand up and rise." 

Zapatistas March in Paris with Those Without Papers

Zapatistas who crossed the Atlantic by ship marched with those without papers in Paris demanding rights and justice. Meanwhile, the delegation of 177 Zapatistas who planned to fly to Paris and join the delegation remain stalled in Mexico. The government of Mexico has refused to give 62 Indigenous in the delegation their passports, Subcomandante Moises said in Chiapas. The Tour for Life plans to travel across Europe. Zapatistas have been invited by Basque, Indigenous in Russia, and people across the continent, to share their message of 'No compromise, resistance, autonomy, self-reliance, and dignity.' -- Censored News.

Photos by Pozol Noticias Chiapas "No papers with Zapatistas and No Papalists: transmission of the march in Montreuil with the Squad 421 streaming on Pozol Noticias Chiapas Radio Pozol Pozol Chiapas #LaGiraZapatistaVa #EZLN #slumilkaxjemkop"

Water Protectors Lock Down to Protect Willow River from Enbridge Line 3 in Minnesota

By GINIW Collective, Censored News, Sunday, July 25, 2021: BREAKING: Pullback of Line 3 under the Willow River stopped! Water Protectors crawled into a pipeline segment and locked to each other to protect the land and water for future generations. We take these actions out of necessity!