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
Support the movement for Rights of Nature and Indigenous rights today
https://youtu.be/DtK_e5WpIM0 DONATE TODAY: http://bit.ly/movementrights We cannot stop climate chaos when the law treats the Earth as property. Movement Rights works with tribes and communities to align human laws with the…
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December 2, 2019
VIDEO: Learning Rights of Nature from the Maori: Movement Rights delegation visits New Zealand (Aotearea)
https://youtu.be/12JinXMK4lM We have so much to learn from each other. And from the indigenous people who are the world's best protectors of the earth, the Maori have been fighting to…
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November 8, 2019
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
Pew Center: “Cities, Tribes Try a New Environmental Approach: Give Nature Rights”
“The law as we know it recognizes the earth and ecosystems as human property,” said Shannon Biggs, a co-founder of Movement Rights, which advocates for nature’s rights. “Corporations can frack in communities or blow off the tops of mountains — that’s a privilege that’s been granted to corporations in this country. That’s not going to go easily.”
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October 30, 2019
Update on Bolivia: The world is watching
After two months of raging fires in Bolivia, the rains came to the rescue of the forests, displaced animals and Indigenous tribes. Indigenous peoples have blood marches throughout the country to…
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October 29, 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
ANALYSIS-That river has rights: new strategy to protect planet
In a growing global movement, environmentalists are trying a new legal route to protect the planet - vesting rivers and reefs with "rights of nature"
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July 31, 2019
Native Hoop: “Today’s Indigenous Warriors are Frontliners”
By Nicky Kay Michael, PhD Via Native Hoop Today's Indigenous warriors, are Frontliners. They face off with private security dogs, are imprisoned in dog cages, and experience militarized psychological warfare…
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July 2, 2019