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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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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What would the Delta Say? Putting California’s Twin Tunnels on Trial

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2016 Contact:  Shannon Biggs, Movement Rights (415) 841-2998 shannon@movementrights.org Linda Sheehan,  Earth Law Center (510) 219-7730 lsheehan@earthlaw.org  Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta(209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org BAY-DELTA TRIBUNAL…

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