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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New Report Shows Rights of Nature Emerges as Alternative to UN Climate Framework

 Movement Rights coproduced a report, Rights of Nature: Rights-Based Law for Systemic Change with our allies Womens Earth and Climate Action Network and the Indigenous Environmental Network as part of our activities in…

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Seeking Climate Justice for the Ponca Nation

JOIN US in Oklahoma Saturday Oct.21 for PONCA ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ACTION DAY “We all know that water is life. The years of fish kills related to the fracking and injection wells…

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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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One way to Bring Standing Rock Home

By Movement Rights co-founders Pennie Opal Plant and Shannon Biggs   “It’s Time to Bring Standing Rock Home,” Movement Rights Board Member, and Ponca Elder, Casey Camp Horinek told a…

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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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