ANALYSIS-That river has rights: new strategy to protect planet
In a growing global movement, environmentalists are trying a new legal route to protect the planet - vesting rivers and reefs with "rights of nature"
In a growing global movement, environmentalists are trying a new legal route to protect the planet - vesting rivers and reefs with "rights of nature"
By Nicky Kay Michael, PhD Via Native Hoop Today's Indigenous warriors, are Frontliners. They face off with private security dogs, are imprisoned in dog cages, and experience militarized psychological warfare…
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,…
Via Mongabay News Bolivia has “violated the rights of nature and of indigenous peoples as defenders of Mother Earth and have failed to comply with its obligation to respect, protect,…
Via the International Rights of Nature Tribunal The ruling concludes that the Plurinational State of Bolivia has violated the Rights of Nature and of Indigenous peoples as defenders of Mother…
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…
PRESENTATION OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF NATURAL RIGHTS IN THE CASE: INDIGENOUS TERRITORY AND ISIBORO SÉCURE NATIONAL PARK (TIPNIS), BOLIVIA VIEW PDF: Report TIPNIS…
Dear Relatives, With your support 2018 was a year full of victories and action for Movement Rights. Our plans for 2019 are even more ambitious, there isn’t a moment to lose…
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. …
https://youtu.be/veQcr9sCQCU Dear Relatives, We live in a time like no other. A climate clock is ticking as politicians sow division. Yet we are not here by accident—we were made for…