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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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