Update on Thacker Pass with guest Will Falk. Will and Max Wilbert (another of our frequent guests), launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada in January of this year.
Will is a biophilic writer, lawyer and the author of “How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me,” published by Homebound Publications. The book describes his relationship with the Colorado River through his involvement in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking rights for a major ecosystem, the Colorado River.
Will has published numerous articles and essays through Earth Island Journal, the Dark Mountain Project, CounterPunch, and many others. For more information about Will, visit willfalk.org.
To keep up with the news about Thacker Pass, check out the website at protectthackerpass.org and Protect Thacker Pass on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NY
Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
CD: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:44)
2. Song Title: What I’ve Seen
Artist: Michael Franti and Spearhead
CD: Yell Fire! (2006)
Label: ANTI- and Liberation Records
(00:29:10)
3. Song Title: They’re Mining Us
Artist: John Trudell
CD: DNA Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)
Label: Effective Records
(00:33:53)
4. Song Title: 500 Years
Artist: Rhonda Head
CD: Kisahkihitan (2019)
Label: Rhonda Head
(00:37:30)
5. Song Title: Who Discovered America
Artist: Ozomatli
CD: Street Signs (2004)
Label: Real World/Concord
(00:41:11)
6. Song Title: Earth Was Mother
Artist: John Trudell
CD: DNA Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)
Label: Effective Records
(00:45:39)
7. Song Title: In the Anthropocene
Artist: Nick Mulvey
CD: N/A - released as a single in October 2019
Label: N/A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaQIvBRAE
(00:55:10)