By Pennie Opal Plant and Shannon Biggs, co-founders, Movement Rights “Was that an earthquake?” As rivers swelled, floods surged, the earth shook, and tornadoes whipped across Oklahoma—more than 200 Indigenous,…
By Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant, Co-founders, Movement Rights Mark your calendars for May 16-18 2019. The Frontline Oil and Gas Conference will bring impacted community members from across…
By Annie Dobbs-Kramer and Shannon Biggs Annie is the political director of the North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP) in Sonoma County, CA, and Shannon is the co-founder of Movement Rights. …
By Shannon Biggs & Pennie Opal Plant co-founders, Movement Rights Chief Seattle once said, “All things share the same breath…How can you buy or sell the sky?” Today—160 years later—carbon…
Movement Rights coproduced a report, Rights of Nature: Rights-Based Law for Systemic Change with our allies Womens Earth and Climate Action Network and the Indigenous Environmental Network as part of our activities in…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 30, 2017 MEDIA CONTACTS: Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma Business Council caseycamphorinek@yahoo.com (580) 716-7015 Shannon Biggs, Co-founder & Executive Director, Movement Rights shannon@movementrights.com (415) 298-9419 Pennie…
JOIN US in Oklahoma Saturday Oct.21 for PONCA ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ACTION DAY “We all know that water is life. The years of fish kills related to the fracking and injection wells…
By Shannon Biggs, co-founder and director, Movement Rights Mere moments after the January 20 inauguration, nearly all references to climate change vanished from the White House website. The only…
By Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant, Movement Rights' Co-founders "How do we win now?" is a question many are asking in the wake of the 2017 US Presidential inauguration…
By Movement Rights co-founders Pennie Opal Plant and Shannon Biggs “It’s Time to Bring Standing Rock Home,” Movement Rights Board Member, and Ponca Elder, Casey Camp Horinek told a…