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Lithium is the miracle element powering your smartphone and under the hood of every electric car. But will batteries save the planet or cause more harm? The controversy is heating up in Nevada. RENO, Nevada — Activists aiming to stop an open-pit lithium mine launched a permanent protest encampment last Friday. They invite supporters to join them. Despite winter conditions at Thacker Pass, the site of the proposed $1.3 billion Lithium Americas mine, protestors have erected tents, a wood stove, and protest signs. Lawyer Will Falk, who is on site, says they mean to stay for as long as it takes to protect this old-growth sagebrush mountainside. ...

Thank you to everyone who watched #DrawingTheLine yesterday! The event was a success thanks to our donors, supporters, volunteers, and friends. The video is now live on Facebook and YouTube for viewing, and we’re asking for more support! FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=788240121908598&ref=watch_permalink YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiUb2VmHsIM DONATE: https://givebutter.com/deepgreen PHOTO: Black bear mama and cubs, taken by Derrick Jensen.

by Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Last week, I was invited to join a Sacred Water Run-Walk in Nevada by Chief Johnnie Bobb of the Western Shoshone National Council. Chief Bobb attended the Sacred Water, Sacred Forests gathering back in May, and we exchanged contact information. I decided to attend last minute after his phone call, and gathered my supplies and energies. It is a 14 hour drive from my home in Oregon to the area the walk was to take place, so I took two days to make the drive. I stopped along the way and purchased as much food and supplies as I could afford, although I didn’t know exactly what was needed. ...

In March 2014, a volunteer for Deep Green Resistance created a photo collage titled “Greenwashing & False Solutions.” The image showed an array of solar panels, a landscape dotted with wind turbines, and a Nissan Leaf electric car on a showroom floor, and was made using photographs found on the internet. The collage was superimposed with text reading “A ‘greener’ industrialism (if such a thing is even possible) will not save the world. Green capitalism is an illusion.” The collage was made for printing as a poster and sharing online, and meant to convey the Deep Green perspective that so-called “green technology” is not effective at stopping the destruction of the planet. ...

Join Deep Green Resistance and North Fork Valley Community Rights Advocates as we provide education and training in resistance and direct action. This training will take place in the North Fork Valley of southern Colorado from August 10-12th. More info and signup: – https://nfvcra.org/2018-deep-green-resistance-training/ – Typical subjects covered include: Grand strategy Campaign strategy Non-violent direct action tactics Know Your Rights Security culture Community organizing Leadership and decision-making Secure communications Resistance art Liberalism vs. Radicalism Intro to Decisive Ecological Warfare

You are invited to join us for the seventh annual Sacred Water, Sacred Forests Action Camp, May 25th - 28th, 2018 - A Gathering for Celebration, Community, Movement Building, Ecology, and Land Defense! Based in Spring Valley, Nevada (between the towns of Ely and Baker), the Action Camp is a gathering of organizers, ecologists, indigenous people, water grab opponents, forest defenders, concerned individuals, and Great Basin residents. Over Memorial Day Weekend, we will convene at Cleve Creek Campground, 12 miles north of Highway 6-50 on road 893, at the base of the Schell Creek Mountains. ...

Activists, save these dates: Deep Green Resistance will conduct advanced training in direct action, revolutionary strategy, tactics, and organizing June 22 - 24. This workshop is aimed at providing practical skills and networking to activists, organizers, and revolutionaries interested in saving the planet. Environmental and social justice activists realize we are losing. Our tactics are failing and things are getting worse. This training will focus on escalation and creative, advanced tactics to increase our effectiveness. ...

**Location: near Great Basin National Park in Nevada (Shoshone/Goshute territory).**Date: May 25-28th, 2018 Save the date! More details coming soon.

On Monday, September 25, five members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR) filed a first-in-the-nation lawsuit - Colorado River v. Colorado - in the United States District Court, District of Denver seeking personhood for the Colorado River and recognition of the river’s rights to exist, flourish, regenerate, and naturally evolve. The lawsuit has catalyzed a national conversation about the Rights of Nature and the New York Times recently published an article about the case. Your donation will help us advance the Rights of Nature movement. Specifically, your contribution will cover court filing fees, enable DGR members to travel to court in support of the lawsuit, facilitate DGR’s media efforts to bring awareness of the Colorado River’s needs, and help DGR to train others to carry the Rights of Nature movement forward. ...

“Contemporary public concern for protecting nature’s ecological equilibrium should lead to the conferral of standing upon environmental objects to sue for their own preservation.” Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sierra Club v. Morton (1972) Denver, Colorado–In a first-in-the-nation lawsuit filed in federal court, the Colorado River is asking for judicial recognition of itself as a “person,” with rights of its own to exist and flourish. The lawsuit, filed against the Governor of Colorado, seeks a recognition that the State of Colorado can be held liable for violating those rights held by the River. ...