MEDIA ADVISORY: Oklahoma Tribes Under Attack from State

                               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/08/2020 For Media Inquiries Contact: Casey Camp Horinek, Environmental Ambassador, Ponca Nation of…

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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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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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Rivers, Rights and Revolution: Learning from the Māori

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…

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Lessons from #NoDAPL: We are More Powerful than the Fossil Fuel Industry

By Pennie Opal Plant, Movement Rights co-founder Cover photo "Night time in Sacred Stone" (Oct. 2016) by Camille Seaman There is something powerful rippling through humanity right now.  It is more…

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