DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protectors</span></a> File First-Ever '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityNecessityDefense</span></a>' in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> Court</p><p>While pursuing a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateNecessityDefense</span></a>,' and making allegations that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'</p><p>Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greedy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> on the wrong side of history when it comes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> and desecration of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a>. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, March 26, 2024</p><p>"In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’</p><p>"The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.<br>.<br>"This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecocide</span></a> and irreversible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>.' </p><p>"'We’re in the midst of the 6th <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a> of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a>. 'Our lives are made possible by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a>. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'</p><p>"Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history. </p><p>"Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sagebrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sagebrush</span></a> steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/6thMassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6thMassExtinction</span></a>.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPassProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPassProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPPs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDefenders</span></a></p>