Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines

Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.

Over three days and 600-plus miles, this group wrestles with one central question: what if the transition to clean transportation was centered on the demands of those fighting for justice throughout the supply chain? 

Whether you’re a mining justice organizer or an auto worker, a car user or a transit rider, a bus mechanic or an Amazon delivery driver, you are affected by current transitions in the transportation system and you should see this film.

Take Action

You can join the movement by signing onto the Solidarity Principles for the Transportation Supply Chain and the Energy Transition.

We believe in a transportation supply chain that puts workers, transit riders, and other community members first, addresses historic injustices, minimizes harm, and supports the flourishing of diverse human and non-human communities. We present shared principles of supply chain solidarity for struggles over Indigenous, climate, environmental, economic, racial, ethnic, and gender justice across borders and industries. We invite workers, organizers, and community members who are willing to stand strong together and fight for justice to sign on.

Solidarity with the Global South

This trip and film were created in solidarity with organizers in the Global South who are fighting for justice in their communities and ecosystems that are also under threat from lithium mining, including the Observatorio Plurinacional de Salares Andinos (OPSAL) which works to protect the Atacama salt flats in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. Exporting the impacts of extraction to other countries is not a viable solution.