KEVIN SCHNEIDER on Legal Liberation for More Than Human Kin /94

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🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Since 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project has filed lawsuits on behalf of non-human animals in captivity – including four chimpanzees and three elephants, so far – seeking a writ of habeas corpus. The organization is fighting for the autonomy of our more than human kin as we face the need for multi species liberation.Support the show

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0:46.4	Hey everyone, Melanie here,
0:48.0	co- managing director for the Wild.
0:50.3	I'm so excited to introduce today's episode with Kevin Schneider of the Non-Human
0:54.4	Rights Project. I'll never forget sitting in property law class the first time I
0:59.3	realized at the end of the eyes of the law. Animals are basically the same as a car or a couch, relegated to the realm of property with no real legal rights.
1:08.9	Obviously, a sentient beings with feelings and families and hearts. Animals deserve so much more
1:16.1	recognition than that and that's exactly what the non-human rights project is
1:20.0	aiming to do. Procure legal rights for animals.
1:24.0	You know, if Amazon the company is a legal person, why shouldn't the Amazon rainforest you know likewise merit that. The silence is broken by somebody crying, trying to be heard, never a word.
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