Mining the Sacred: Indigenous nations fight lithium gold rush at Thacker Pass
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, but for more than two years several local tribes and environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action. The Thacker Pass Project is backed by the Biden administration, and companies like General Motors have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, looking to capitalize on the transition to a "green energy economy," for which lithium is essential. While it is a vital component in the manufacturing of electric vehicles and batteries, though, there’s nothing “green” about mining lithium. Ending our addiction to fossil fuels is urgently necessary, but the struggle of the local tribes around Thacker Pass reveals the darkside of a “green revolution” that prioritizes profits and consumption over everything (and everyone) else.
In this feature documentary, “Thacker Pass - Mining the Sacred,” award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French multimedia journalist Brandi Morin and documentary filmmaker Geordie Day report on the Indigenous resisters putting their bodies and freedom on the line to stop the Thacker Pass Project.
“Thacker Pass - Mining the Sacred” was co-produced by Ricochet Media (@ricochet_media), IndigiNews (@IndigiNewsMedia), and The Real News Network (@therealnews).
Pre-Production: Brandi Morin, Geordie Day, Ethan Cox, Andrea Houston, Cara McKenna, Eden Fineday, Maximillian Alvarez, Kayla Rivara
Studio Production: Geordie Day
Post-Production: Brandi Morin, Geordie Day, Ethan Cox, Andrea Houston, Cara McKenna, Eden Fineday, Maximillian Alvarez, Kayla Rivara
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Check out Brandi Morin's amazing text feature accompanying this film here 👉therealnews.com/brandi-morin-in-nevada-indigenous-land-protectors-face-off-with-a-canadian-mining-company
Wells, it's okay for corporations to commit war crimes, because they don't follow the laws they make.
#LandBack ❤️ Solidarity
Wow - excellent, inspirational work. Thanks you Brandi et al.
TO AUDIENCE: Please, DON'T BUY AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE! It is more helpful to the environment and human health for you to just drive a fuel efficient car, and keep it running as long as possible. Also, driving less - if possible.
And all the richies? What will they be driving and flying in?
Thank you for bringing this to our attention… we will get the word out !
Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has been discussing and protesting this for a long time now. Wish they had more support in the protest. Thanks for covering this issue so honestly and thoroughly.
Expropriating people off their land and poisoning their drinking water for mining needs to end.
spot on, BDS from these horrible corporations, their greed is disgusting. Killing for the money. They are murderers of the lands and peoples.
It's not going to be stopped. The environmental movement does not accomplish much at all. We are producing more pollution and environmental harm than ever as our knowledge of and warnings against the danger grow. The simple, sad truth is those who want to mine that land are willing to kill and be killed to do so while those who want to protect humanity are willing to make signs and sing songs. Those who want to mine the land have money and power and those who want to protect it only have common sense. The only mechanism to challenge this dynamic is to dismantle the existing political regimes because you can't stop these harmful projects on site. But they have divided people so bitterly that that seems an impossibility. I feel like all I can do is my part and vote 3rd party and hope that the light bulb illuminates similarly in others.
story of time. all nations today are here because they valued them selfs over others the realities of the world are not kind or fair
We cannot live for greed and plundering that destroys this Beautiful Mother Earth. I truly understand this heartbreak and we all must stop the incoherence of the plunder - 🌍🌎🌏 💔💞
What type of devices are you and i using to talk now?
Beautiful and important work everyone ❤
When the Secretary of Energy was asked what is going to be used to make electricity, she was obviously trying to figure out what to say instead of gas and blurted out "Coal". Right. Lithium mining uses 60% of the water in their vicinity. Wildlife and fish, from the streams/rivers, are impacted for 250 miles surrounding a mine. And...The tailings when wet become a highly toxic acid that can make its way into groundwater. What happens to farmers and towns, people who make their home there, when they do not have enough water? And those emissions...who are they kidding?
"You cannot mine your way out of the climate crisis" The realest statement ever that nobody who is supposed to be solving the climate crisis is making.
Yes and based on the assumption that there is actual political will to solve the problem. If you've ever worked in a corporation, you know there is a great tolerance for cognitive dissonance. Russell Means spinning in his grave. 😢
How else are you supposed to get lithium? Literally nothing wrong with mining
@@madfoxcityemnau6414just remember Russell Means was a capitalist who hated socalism
Just as you cannot vaccinate humans into good health by injecting toxic substances, poisons into the body.
Yes you can. 😂😂😂
I dont see you leading the way and living like the Amish.
So very sad to hear😢
How absurd that they are suing land defenders.
USA is greedy we're did th Mormon start
We have a similar problem here in Massachusetts. Our forests, even state lands, are being stripped for so called renewable wood burning power plants, and solar arrays are being built on our woods and farmlands. Near the Palmer schools is a big ol wooded hill called, Mt. Dumplin, surrounded by woods. I saw in horror that a huge solar array was being built on that hill. The elementary school and high school are right next to that woods. Why can't that array go over the acres and acres of parking lots there. It would be a win-win. The cars would be shaded. The black asphalt wouldn't absorb all that heat. The parking lot array could heat and light the school. But no. It's cheaper and easier to build it on the hill. Damn them!!!!!
Citizens of Hawaii, Maui making the same complaints. Lahaina got torched. Western African nations are joining forces to eradicate their land of Colonialist occupation (France and USA). Morocco then experiences deadly shallow 6.9 earthquake. Libya experiences deadly flooding. Coincidences?
Oh wait... we did. 😂😂😂
Unfortunately we nursed you back to health instead of sealing the deal.
Thank you for the story- indigenous native southern californian
"Nevada has a strong anti-SLAPP law. SLAPP stands for strategic lawsuits against public participation." this is from a reporter's org. This is your solution! This is your legal avenue to counter-sue Lithium America. IT's really that simple. Also counter-sue under RLUIPA - religious access act by Congress.
People don't realize that anytime over the table business is done in rural areas, "innovative" capitalists also bring black market activities. Elements of middle and upper management will coordinate these trafficking rings and the low level workers will be the fall guys. Thats how these networks are set up and continue to grow throughout the rural west.
They should counter-sue under RLUIPA - which guarantees access to religious sites under this federal act. It's also intended for incarcerated persons, but it can apply to anyone. Counter-sue - and also counter-sue based on your treaty rights. Also, see if Nevada has an anti-SLAPP law - because that would penalize the company for filing a suit intended to smother public participation and freedom of expression. THis is a classic SLAPP suit situation.
Well said!
"You can not mine your way out of a climate crisis"! Brilliant
Of course you can't. What crisis exactly?
Miigwetch for sharing this
Ah'o 🙏🏾
The tears never have stopped, from forcing people on that trail west.
🗿in thunder heart, val kilmer 90s film, my heart bled sum for what my ancestors did. Not directly but just the same 💔❤️
Thank you very much.
If you think the government gives a damn about the rights of the indigenous people you're absolutely incorrect look what they have done to the Indians
We are one people united to stop extraction of the sacred elements in all our best interest . .in all life's best interest ....We will protect all life .We are standing for All Are The Beautiful People ...Our Ancestors come seeking Peace with The Earth .... am so grateful for your Stand.
Your Stand Our Stand We Stand ❗PROTECT SACRED SITES .❗
Knowledge of the laws and courts is the way to go. A warriors most dangerous weapon is their mind.
❤😢😮😢😮❤ how many times will the indigenous (first people) be denied, be trample on, be pushed around - let the ancestors rain down waters so much so often that nothing gets extracted from the earth. 14:55 what economic benefit can the mine give the people when the water, the air and the land is polluted from mining attempts. 😢😢
so harshly disrespectful of people who live the land. 19:33 Enough lives have been lost and too many person missing.
Rain 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️ Dance 🌧️🌧️🌧️🙏
Excellent documentary.
Why are Very Efficient gas cars not encouraged ? I never understood this.
We need a massive public transportation system, in this country.
It not about the climate, never was , it's about cornering the markets .
Why can’t these corporation just leave the native people and their land alone? The corporations have enough! Not only is Mother Earth exhausted, the citizens of our nation are also exhausted.
Hmm... Displace Native Americans for resource needs or respect the sovereignty of a population? I wonder what our leadership will choose to do 😮💨
PEARL CLUTCHING EXCREMENT
If you do not respond to the civil lawsuit the judge will probably grant the mining company a summary judgement.
That is why the USA was in Afghanistan for 20 years before they were expelled by the Taliban. Lithium.
i pray the Great One hold his hand upon you.
So are the native land owners building a base case for any contamination by starting a monitoring program? With all the Native casinos in the country, is there no legal common defense fund?
I smell Harvard. And Wall Street.
In Baja California Norte Mexico , Indian reservation of "La Zorra" in Valley of Guadalupe the owner of "LA Chetto" Winery is stealing the land of the reservation and nobody is willing to help what a shame.
No fancy time consuming useless intro. I love it. Thanks❤
That's a lot of water where is it to come from? I didn't hear an explanation for it.
"To save the climate we disturbed with our industrial revolution sadly we must destroy more of this planet and steal more land from indigenous people, but we are willing to make these sacrifices." I recommend the documentary "Bright Green Lies" and the work of Derrick Jensen in general.
Stay strong ✌🏽
Steal? It wasn't theirs to begin with. They were no different than the animals they followed around hunting. 😂😂
@@DS-lk3tx Unlike the primates who call themselfes "western civilized" because their level of psychopathy makes them almost seem to be aliens who don't belong on this planet
He said with her again. And why would someone that wirked for him so long lie? Something is off
War happens in exactly the same way.
Investors are the bain of Humanity!
A couple of years ago, you could look up the list of investors on the Thacker Pass Mine. Last time I looked I could not find it. It was and eye opener.
WoW!
Mutha Earth should mean something to you ❤
NO MINING.
#waterprotector
Exactly
The Earth is hurting, the earth is crying
Can you ambition people don’t understand
Earth is talking a lot lately
Trough earthquakes,tsunamis ,sequías
Indigenous Tribal Nations and People could also assert their rights to hunt and fish in the area and file lawsuit to protect their hunting and fishing rights.
Will drilling into an "extinct" volcano rejuvenate it? The long term repercussions are greater than they believe
Capitalism, and greed, kill.
Wanting computers and cellphones for Facebook is what's causing this.
Liberal religion at work.
THANKS ELON
The reason some interest groups would want to use a resource like Lithium is no doubt for something like electric car batteries, but the reason this (and other situations like it) will probably continue is because modern global civilization has many uses for many resources such as Lithium, cobalt, etc.
I think the forces of industry fueled by capitalism (money) is most likely the issue in these kinds of stories..
no mines on sacred land
No!
What’s more important:
A couple of native Americans feelings…..
or
to provide more electric cars at a cheaper price; cheaper and longer lasting cell phone and laptop batteries to 350 million Americans plus being able to supply the world with lithium technology…
Hundreds of millions of lives are improved with the mining vs a couple unhappy desert trailer dwellers. Don’t let this documentary emotionally manipulate your opinion. The greater good wins.
We need a dual and equal government system.
It's reduculose for the people who are the real owners of the western Hemisphere!
To have to bargan wuth the 800 pound gorilla that is the Federal government, with out being a 800 pound gorilla themselves.
Considering the enence wisdom of the Turtle Island Indigenous. I believe we ( both Indigenous and European, and everyone else) would be better of if the Turtle Island Indigenous nations had 50% of the voice in government!
I have nothing against honest government!
I detest corrupt government!
I believe that a much larger Indigenous voice would improve the future of Humanity anf and the Planet.
What makes you think they have any capacity to run an entire country when half of them are on welfare and drugs and never finished school? You're gonna rely on those people to make city bus routes and traffic laws? International shipping lanes??
Vote for Kennedy.
So what in the world do we do if we cant use gas and now we cant mine materials for batteries so what is your solution? Do we raise animals and farm and live off the land? What land? How do we buy the land? How will we drive to a job to get money to buy the land that we are gonna live on? You see there are many problems here and they are not easy to figure out.
🗿 this is more than a breach of native tribal land. Imo. As a people of this land, I've never disposed of a disposable battery, flashlight bats n such.🔥💯 love this land. Now the rich are showing of because they can. Recently ive been going to paul unslaved to better use the language that I'm bound to. He's got a spirit about him🌘🌒 Excellent work and thanks for sharing 👍👍
The good old USA
THIS IS REALITY 😭 OF GREED😈
That why its called mineing.
It mine now not yours.
I will visit and make money somehow, just not sure till i get there. Where there's a will there's a way.
come on its barren almost unhuman desert!
I have seen you-tube videos showing that China is producing sodium ion batteries. Some are used in small cars. Lithium ion batteries are already becoming outdated. Thank you China.
Source? Because as of today they are not reliable or useful. They won't be at scale for years either.
As a "First citizens of the first nations of the continent" it is your right to defend mother earth ,don't be like the natives of Mexico that they choose to live like slaves 1994 a community of 800 natives was wipe out by the mexican airforce and nobody did anything ,2023 they started to destroy Yucatan the maya empire area and nobody did anything , it is up to you now to save mother earth.
Before this was a potential mining site… how often did they visit the land to pay respects to their ancestors? I’m guessing hardly ever. They don’t own the land. My ancestors stepped foot on a lot of land, doesn’t give me a right to the land. 🤷🏼♂️
This will provide jobs for these people, so they don’t have to rely on government subsidies anymore to live.
Let the Indigenous drcide! What ever they decide. HONOR IT!
Demons
Cannot wait for this stock to go flying up and make me rich in a couple of years! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Once again
Tree hunger activist video
The sins of George Armstrong Custer
Custer got the point.--->>> Shundahai
5:53 this is what infuriates former environmental activists like me.
Green religionist have zero concern for lithium mining in Africa.
Exploiting children and ecology.
You offer no solutions, just trite cliches.
We need fossil fuels to live in Northern Nevada, i have lived here a long time.
One needs generators as well as solar and wind when living off grid.
You need batteries, period.
The climate here is getting wetter. 😂 more snow and rain than since 1952.
The payout Paiutes dont give a shit about the environment.
Buy them a house and give them 500, 000 bucks and their concerns will evaporate
Get lost.
Prostitution and drugs and violence follow ??
Doesn't matter. This mine will be. It must be. Sorry buy it's true. So start thinking about how to deal with that FACT in mind or get swept aside.
Would Elon approve 🙄
This is necessary to save the planet! It is a very good thing. I’m guessing these tribes want a kickback.
Delicious lithium profits in the last week. I love you lithium Americas.
Dig baby dig!
😒
Great story, but at least 20% of your audience will drop off as soon as you say "so called" referring to the state. Even if they agree with what you're trying to communicate, it's clumsy moral grandstanding. This story is too important to limit your audience like that. Not all of us are in your bubble.
Act of war on potential renewables. Extinction exercise on capital reservation territories, papal bull$. Grand malfeasance. Same in Oztrailia!26&
Ernesto Guevara, really!?! Why not Russell Means?
Mining in developed countries is orders better than the alternative in terms of reclamation etc. Where else is better than remote arid public BLM land in Nevada? There's lots of water for crops right next to the site!
Evolution or extinction? Are we able to learn to live in harmony with each other, nature and technology including AI? Sustainability not profitability. Mindfulness and self love, respect not exploitation. Our species faces a major die off, the population is passing the peak, passing a tipping point where our population goes from exponential growth to a transition to a new sustainable relationship with the ecosystem that has sustained us up until now. That downward curve can be as steep as a cliff which falls to zero, extinction, or it can begin steeply and recover as it returns to historic levels of sustainability, pre-technology levels such as pre-Columbian America. This could lead to a selection pressure that would produce a new species of hominid, speciation. The curve could be more gentle and could include technological solutions that would level off at a population that could both live more harmoniously with nature and each other and incorporate technology that would represent an evolution into a new species of technologically enhanced humanity, cyborgs. Taking life to other planets, terraforming and evolving new species of humans who could survive other planetary ecologies is another path that will require technologies including genetic engineering to reach for the stars. Managing these changes in a moral and humane way brings hope to a future that appears very scary from our selfish and ethnocentric perspectives. Keep up the good work or as John Perkins says "Dream True" instead of living like the hero of his book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman." Be blessed, you are a blessing. Aboriginal cultures have much to teach us.
I'm confused, won't the lithium help slow the overheating of our planet by giving us an alternative to fossil fuels?
You do not need Lithium for batteries, you can use Sodium for instance
@@SlaVniK77 i remember in science class when we made a light bulb light up using a "potato battery" made out of potatoes/pennies/zinc coated nails/copper wire as the sole energy source!! like you do not plug anything into a wall outlet and the light bulb lights up from basically the potatoes and metal reacting to each other!!...i read if you boil the potatoes you can get more power...i always thought this would be a good thing to know/understand if there was an "apocalypse"...but surely there has to be a better way to generate power that doesn't ALSO destroy the earth/sacred lands/factually currently our ONLY home!!...you know how much whining/crying/protesting there would be if some other ethnic group tried to steal all the grave yards/battle lands here in the rest of the usa...they find some "resource" under the land where the battle of gettysburg happened/some "mad" scientist discovers how to use human bones to generate power?! and surely there'd be a gazillion old men out there strapped saying "over my dead body"!!...this entire situation is so shameful/disgusting!! to think human beings would treat other humans like this!!??
the cause of this is due to the fact that we NEVER even discuss anything else other than "single ruler/single priority" systems...currently if you asked a million usa citizens "what is our main system" the majority answer would be "capitalism" then some would say "democracy" and probably a few would say something else/unknown...for me when i think about what these systems are or what they do, i come up with....'money rules/money is the top or only priority" the words 'capital' and 'money' are synonyms meaning we can/should use them interchangeably SO capitalism=moneyism! what do we all think is going to be prioritized/or rule over EVERYTHING(that's not another word for money) else under a system that has money as its NAME? so if humans were "systematically" more important than money then we'd not call our system MONEYism we'd call it "humanism" or "peopleism".
democracy simply means "majority rules" but what is the majority? there IS more money on earth than humans so....whether you think we have "moneyism" or "democracy" this boils down to "money rules"!! this is what we are all "agreeing" to have as our system reguardless if this is our personal value and even if we don't understand it!! once you realize we have done this to ourselves by advocating for moneyism/democracy or by not understanding just going along with the crowd or by not protesting it, the way the world functions/dysfunctions becomes perfectly understandable, like no wonder our government seems corrupt and like it can't function the way we need it to because government isn't the ultimate ruler, money and government are NOT synonyms, we don't have "governmentism" we have moneyism so money is systematically more important than government and money controls/rules over government, ahh yes government should be corrupt/not function when money actually rules over/above it!!...we should all be shocked we don't have 8 billion billionaires, except the billionaires we currently have are THE MOST ruled over/manipulated by/slavishly controlled by money aren't they!! the rest of us who are not billionaires, we obviously do NOT "agree" money is more important then ALL humans including ourselves!! we do NOT actually "agree" personally that money is THE most important thing! since we have moneyism and NOT environmentalism this means we are also making money more important than the earth too!!?? sorry i just can't help but point out, how unintelligent of us humans huh!? too bad money didn't have a brain maybe it would realize if the earth gets destroyed or becomes uninhabitable then money will no longer exist/wont be ruler anymore!!??
the solution needs to be that we stop wanting/advocating/trying to implement all/any 'single ruler/single priority" systems ie anarchism(no rules) socialism(what's "social"? humans so "human's rule") democracy(majority rules/still just a 'single' ruler), libertarianism(freedom rules) fascism(one human/king/dictator rules) capitalism(money rules) environmentalism(earth rules) etc...we need to create/invent/test or try/implement/a system with "multiple rulers/multiple priorities" a system where "the earth/ALL life on earth/safety/knowledge/spirituality/hobbies/vacations/purpose/??/etc/etc ALL rule or are ALL our top priorities" we can add and subtract as needed from this list of multiple rulers. we all do this, multitask and have multiple priorities, in our personal lives EVERYDAY already!!?? why are we not doing this collectively??!! like we don't even discuss any systems that have multiple rulers/multiple priorities!!?? i can't even name a system because as far as i can tell humans have never invented/talked about any??!!(maybe peter joseph, he at least accurately describes what our current systems do/don't do except he has/uses "expert" language). i think most of us think(incorrectly) that this is already happening(that we all do collectively prioritize multiple things) but when you start to really look into the entire phenomenon we DEFINITELY are NOT???!!!
I"m not sure if we will ever invent a "perfect" system but we CAN and SHOULD do a TON better than what we currently are!! just like it would not be "best" if we had "earthism" where we made the earth ruler/more important than ALL else because then we'd be making the earth more important than us and that's obviously not going to be "best"!! just like it wouldn't be "best" if we had "humanism" and we tried to make ourselves more important than the earth/all other life on earth/etc...i'm confused is there some "rulebook" or law stating "humans are ONLY ALLOWED to have one single priority/one ruler at a time"?? why do we not collectively prioritize multiple things at the same time like 100 years ago??!!
Lithium for batteries is completely useless compared to oil extraction which is much less intrusive and so much more efficient in terms of vehicle range and capability.
@@SlaVniK77but nowhere near as efficient
No it won't. Man causing climate change is a lie. They know it's a lie. But they preach it anyway because it's an excuse to make money. The elites want their technological toys or else!
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We can either keep drilling for oil, OR we can start mining on a HUGE SCALE.. and for the US to tout the benefits of Electric vehicles etc and mandate their use BUT not want to allow MASS MINING within the United States is hypocritical at best and criminal at worst.
At up😂
Pentagon nuclear energy waste. Trump, Morrison, Boris, Merkel Putin.
Get it done. We need that lithium. Imagine taking people seriously who claim everywhere mining needs to be done is sacred land. lol
Powerful, Real, Truth! 🌊⛰️🌎🦅S💪🏾. I did not sit where you did at Centinel Rock, and I could feel the pain of many. The Massacre was Real. The Sites are Sacred! It is Undeniable!