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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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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CALIFORNIA DROUGHT: A PRECURSOR OF THINGS TO COME

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…

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California, Drought and the Return of ‘Limits to Growth’?

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…

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