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Posts tagged ‘Nonhuman Rights Project’

Chatting with Charles Siebert

Charles Siebert’s New York Times story about the Nonhuman Rights Project has stirred lots of interest around the country in last few days. Among other scoops,…

Unlocking the Cage

For the last two years, Academy Award-winning movie maker D.A. Pennebaker and Oscar nominee Chris Hegedus have been following the work of Steven M. Wise and…

Q & A with Steven M. Wise

Steven M. Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project President, answers some of the questions we’ve been receiving in the wake of the cover story in the New York Times magazine.

First: “Why can’t a humane society or local authorities just go in and rescue those poor chimpanzees?”

Our First Plaintiff

Our plaintiff did not walk into our office; he couldn’t. When we last saw him, he was being held captive in solitary confinement in a small, dank, cement cage in a dark shed in temperatures 40 degrees below his native land.