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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 22h

ExxonMobil wins Top Polluter Award!

WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 1d

🎈Congrats ExxonMobil, the winner of our Top Polluter Award! 🏆

📈17,883 spills
🛢️5,053,188 gallons of fluids
🔥 6,890,815 mcf of methane and other gases

ExxonMobil wants you to forget all that by slapping its logo on Balloon Fiesta. We're not buying it. #LeakOfTheWeek

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 23h

#ClimateWeekNYC is over but the impact continues! Read the Rights of Nature Tribunal recap below 📖👀

Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) @garnglobal.bsky.social · 1d

🌍 ✊ From Indigenous-led calls to action to a landmark #RightsofNatureTribunal verdict against fossil fuels, the Rights of Nature movement took center stage at #ClimateWeekNYC.

🔗 Read the full recap & catch up with the events: www.garn.org/garn-at-clim...

#RightsofNature #COP30 #ClimateJustice

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 6d

“Indigenous Rights and Rights of Nature are not different. But if we don't work in unity to save what we have left we cannot achieve the balance needed."

His words call us to unity — to honor Indigenous knowledge and act together to protect all life.

#ClimateWeek #RightsOfNature #IndigenousWisdom

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 8d

🧡 Every child matters. Yesterday. Today. Always. 🧡

Today, we remember the children who never came home, honor the survivors of residential schools, and hold space for the families and Nations carrying this generational grief.

#OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation

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Sogorea Te' Land Trust @sogorea-te.bsky.social · 14d

The Shuumi Land Tax is a voluntary contribution that non-Indigenous people living in the territory of the Lisjan Nation can make to support Indigenous-led land work.

Support Sogorea Te' by visiting bit.ly/shuumi

Check out the full video on YouTube at bit.ly/shuumiYT

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Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) @garnglobal.bsky.social · 13d

🌍💧 Rivers are more than water flowing through our lands: they are the lifeblood of our planet. Defending them means defending our future generations 🌱💪

This #WorldRiversDay, let’s honor rivers by protecting them, respecting their rights, and standing with the communities who safeguard them. 💙

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 13d

2025 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Lineup is now available! On October 13, we will begin the day with a community march and end it with a FREE concert.

🎨 To support the community art build for the march text “ART4IPD” to 50302.

🔴 NDN LIVE: available on YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands.
#FixtheFinance

➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/

We Can Pay For It - Oil Change International

We Can Pay for It factsheet shows rich counties can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action

oilchange.org

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 13d

We have many highlights from #NewYorkClimateWeek!

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 13d

We had the honor of attending (@wecan_intl) WECAN’s “Women in Action for Climate Justice & a Just Transition: Path to COP30 and Beyond” during Climate Week NYC. 🌿✨

#ClimateWeekNYC #WomenInAction #ClimateJustice #JustTransition #WECAN #IndigenousVoices #COP30

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 13d

✨ During Climate Week NYC, we got to spend some time at Relative Arts — a community space, open studio, and shop in the East Village. 🧵💫

#RelativeArts #IndigenousFashion #IndigenousFuturism #ClimateWeekNYC #NativeOwned #EastVillageNYC

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 16d

At Climate Week, these words remind us that true solutions begin by honoring Indigenous knowledge and restoring our relationship with the Earth.

#ClimateWeek #RightsOfNature #IndigenousWisdom #ClimateJustice

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 16d

Leo Cerda, Casey Camp Horinek, and Julie Horinek opened the Indigenous Council Meeting at the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature during Climate Week in NYC.

#ClimateWeek #ClimateWeek2025 #RightsOfNature #IndigenousLeadership

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 16d

Honoring the Fall Equinox 🍂
The Fall Equinox is a time of abundance, harvest, gratitude, and reflection.
Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have lived in deep relationship with these cycles, honoring the Earth as a relative and teacher.

#FallEquinox #IndigenousWisdom #RightsOfNature

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 16d

🌱 California Native American Day celebrates the original people of the land we now call California.

🌱 Let’s take a moment to celebrate and honor on the diverse cultures, traditions, and resilience of the tribes that call this land home.

#IndigenousPeoples #CaliforniaNative #landback

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 17d

We are looking forward to the Indigenous Council meeting happening tomorrow 2pm - 5pm EST.

Join us in-person or online! Attendees must RSVP

www.garn.org/rights-of-na...

Rights of Nature at Climate Week 2025 - Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)

GARN will be actively participating Climate Week 2025 in New York City, bringing the Rights of Nature to the forefront of the climate discussion.

www.garn.org

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 19d

The Rights of Nature Tribunal will highlight pathways for justice and accountability while inviting broader engagement with the movement to defend Earth and uphold the Rights of Nature.

You don't want to miss out!

#NewYorkClimateWeek

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 19d

Dismantling Fossil Fuel Colonialism and Building Climate Resilience with @7directionsof.bsky.social

Join virtually if you aren't already planning on attending in person!

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 19d

#NewYorkClimateWeek

"The Indigenous Council acts as a vital platform for Indigenous leaders from around the world to connect, collaborate, and co-lead the global Rights of Nature movement, and shape strategy, policy, and legal frameworks that protect Mother Earth and her peoples."

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 22d

🌍 Join Us: Sept 21–28 is UN Climate Week in NYC

Sept 22 – Indigenous Council + Water for Life film: https://loom.ly/XV4STXE

Sept 23 – GARN Tribunal + Indigenous-led Rights of Nature: https://loom.ly/qEyvAqM

Sept 24 – Indigenous Leadership dialogue + Women in Action: https://loom.ly/nkbW2FI

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 26d

Bolsonaro gets 27 years for plotting a coup. But the deeper truth: his legacy is one of attacks on the Amazon + Indigenous peoples.
Read more https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xrqxk9p4xo

#RightsOfNature #Amazon #Indigenouspeoples #breakingnews

Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting Brazil coup

The former president has been found guilty of trying to mount coup to cling to power after he lost the election.

www.bbc.com

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · 27d

New blog just dropped ✨

Mashpee Wampanoag youth are leading the way for Rights of Nature. From the Rights of Herring resolution to the first youth-led symposium.

🔗 movementrights.org/celebrating-rights-of-nature-successes-with-mashpee-wampanoag-emerging-leaders/

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join in-person or virtually Tuesday September 23rd 6:30pm EST to listen to Indigenous-led Rights of Nature: Dismantling Fossil Fuel Colonialism and Building Climate Resilience hosted by @7directionsof.bsky.social

actionnetwork.org/events/indig...

Indigenous-led Rights of Nature: Dismantling Fossil Fuel Colonialism and Building Climate Resilience

Event Overview From the plains of Oklahoma to the woodlands of the Southeast, Indigenous nations are rising to defend land, water, and climate through the Rights of Nature framework—laws and cultura...

actionnetwork.org

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Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · Sep 2

Find us in the crowd with the Indigenous Delegation during the #MakeBillionairesPayMarch at #NYClimateWeek2025 in a few weeks!

act.womensmarch.com/signup/MBP_S...

Make Billionaires Pay NYC RSVP

Join the Make Billionaires Pay Rally and March in New York City—a people-powered takeover demanding a livable climate for all, and an end to billionaire polluters and fascist attacks on migrants. Sept...

act.womensmarch.com

Movement Rights @movementrights.bsky.social · Sep 2

Movement Rights will be at #NYClimateWeek 2025!