Dear Relatives,

From stopping pipelines to the US Supreme Court upholding treaty rights in Oklahoma this week, we see powerful change happening all around us. Indigenous cosmology, Indigenous Rights and the Rights of Nature offer powerful guidance, leadership and tools for system change.

We cannot stop Climate chaos when the law treats the Earth as property. Movement Rights was founded to work with Indigenous communities on Turtle Island and around the world to align human laws with the laws of Mother Earth.

Led by Ponca Casey Camp Horinek, in 2016 with support from Movement Rights, the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, became the first in the US to recognize the Rights of Nature on tribal land to stop fossil fuel projects that have caused environmental genocide, earthquakes, and the poisoning of water. Since then, several tribes have adopted rights of nature laws to protect the Sacred system of life. Even during the COVID 19 pandemic, the Ponca Nation continues to organize to protect Mother Earth.

On the streets and at home, we stand together always in solidarity,

Pennie Opal Plant and Shannon Biggs
Movement Rights co-founders 

(Photo from the Juneteenth action at the Port of Oakland in support of Black Lives Matter)

P.S. To see past webinars, including our recent Global Rights of Nature  visit Movement Rights’ YouTube Channel.

P.P.S. To support the Ponca Nation and the Rights of Nature, please make a gift to Movement Rights today.  All donations in July support the Ponca Rights of Nature campaign and IRON Forums.