Everything We Do Is About WE At This Point
Cover Image from Mt. Lebanon, PA (photo credit unknown) By Pennie Opal Plant, Co-founder of Movement Rights and Idle No More SF Bay This virus is teaching us and…
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March 26, 2020
Connecting a Canadian First Nations’ Sovereignty to Dredging the San Francisco Bay
By Pennie Opal Plant, co-founder Movement Rights and Idle No More SF Bay The recent Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) invasion of Wet'suwet'en territory is directly related to First Nation’s…
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February 9, 2020
Protecting the Sacred: Indigenous Reflections on Maori-led Legal Personhood (Series 1)
The Whanganui Chapter by Neeta Lind (Diné), Director of Community, Daily Kos ABOUT THIS SERIES: In 2018 Movement Rights led a delegation of Indigenous and Rights of Nature Advocates from…
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November 7, 2019
Finding Victories for the Amazon (and beyond)
By Shannon Biggs, co-founder, Movement Rights If we ever needed a reminder that we are all connected, the Amazon Rainforest provides. With every breath you take, 20% of that air…
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August 22, 2019
Casey Camp Horinek speaks at a protest that was part of the Frontline Oil and Gas conference in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
What Happened When the Climate Justice Movement Came to Ponca Tribal Lands
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,…
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June 5, 2019
Bringing the Climate Justice Movement to the Ponca Nation
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…
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March 8, 2019
Poisoning Paradise: A Community Fights Back
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. …
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December 20, 2018
Can We Sell the Air?
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…
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November 10, 2018
New Report Shows Rights of Nature Emerges as Alternative to UN Climate Framework
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…
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December 2, 2017
Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to Recognize the Rights of Nature to Ban Fracking
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…
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November 1, 2017