2022: The Year of Rights of Rivers and Climate Justice

By Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant, co-founders, Movement Rights Movement Rights is an intentionally small, Indigenous and women-led organization, focusing on three pillars organizing: frontline-led climate justice, Indigenous Rights,…

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2021 Year in Action & 2022 Looking Forward

By Shannon Biggs & Pennie Opal Plant, co-founders, Movement Rights  The year 2021 marked many changes. COVID-19 continued to shift the landscape of when, where and how we could respond…

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Generations of Indigenous Women Protecting the Rights of Water

Water is alive. It needs to be respected. We must recognize her as a living entity.— Water Warrior Grandmother Josephine Mandamin, Ojibway By Casey Camp Horinek, Shannon Biggs & Pennie…

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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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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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