Indigenous Peoples Standing up to Ecuador & Big Oil
By Pennie Opal Plant & Shannon Biggs, co-founders, Movement Rights “We will fight oil until our last breath,” Manari Ushigua, president of the Zapara tribe (pictured with his sister, Gloria…
By Pennie Opal Plant & Shannon Biggs, co-founders, Movement Rights “We will fight oil until our last breath,” Manari Ushigua, president of the Zapara tribe (pictured with his sister, Gloria…
By Shannon Biggs with Pennie Opal Plant Movement Rights co-founders Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant were in Paris for the COP 21 climate events, and to promote grassroots alternatives to…
By Tom B.K. Goldtooth and Shannon Biggs, editors of the new report Rights of Nature & Mother Earth: Sowing seeds of resistance, love and change. This report is a joint publication by Movement…
By Shannon Biggs, co-founder and director, Movement Rights They say that Hawaii is Earth's connecting point to the rest of the Universe. Telescopes—those located on Earth and those in…
By Javan Briggs Javan Briggs is a mother, educator, and experienced community organizer who has recently joined the Movement Rights team. She currently splits her time living in the San Joaquin Valley of…
By Maude Barlow We are honored to share the following article written by Movement Rights board member, Maude Barlow. Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and the…
Photo above: A housing development in Cathedral City, near Palm Springs. Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times By Suzanne York It’s shocking, but a mainstream media outlet has actually…
by Pennie Opal Plant, co-founder Movement Rights and Idle No More Bay Area. The Connect the Dots: Refinery Healing Walks 2015 will occur over a four month period in the…
* Image credit (above) POCLAD Robert Reich recently wrote a provocative article that nobody outside of a Fortune 500 boardroom wants to believe. He provided evidence that Americans have statistically NO power…
The following is a guest blog, written by Suzanne York. The world is headed towards a “danger zone,” as it is passing a number of planetary boundaries that could destabilize…