CEFR seeks to expand such fundamental legal rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty to nonhuman animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos, through litigation and education.


Artist Peter Max 
Takes a Stand for Animals Rights!

Peter Max has generously offered to provide his artwork to interested individual or corporate buyers with 100% proceeds going to CEFR!

Visit Peter Max’s website at www.petermax.com to view his amazing artwork.

Peter Max, the world's foremost pop artist, has joined forces with the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, Inc. (CEFR), one of America's most progressive and innovative animal rights organizations. Max and Steven Wise, CEFR's president, have announced a partnership in raising funds and gaining support for CEFR's struggle to establish legal personhood for nonhuman animals. 

An enthusiastic supporter of CEFR's work, Mr. Max has generously offered to provide his artwork to clients at a 40% discount from his standard price with 100% of the proceeds going to CEFR to assist in its drive to attain legal personhood for nonhuman animals. This is a remarkable opportunity not only for CEFR, but for interested art investors and anyone who cares about improving the legal status of nonhuman animals.

Max is innovative, his art unique and vibrant. He is committed to using his art to make positive change in the world. The partnering of Max's unique artistic talent with the groundbreaking legal and intellectual work of Steven Wise provides a tremendous opportunity for art lovers and animal advocates to join together in changing the face of the animal rights movement forever.

Contact:

Jenny Desmond
Media and Donor Relations
Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights
508-752-1013
www.cefr.org

Visit Peter Max’s website at www.petermax.com to view his amazing artwork.

 


   
 

At the center of the fierce debates over legal rights for nonhuman animals sits an inevitable question: Where do we draw the line?

Steven Wise, President of CEFR, who has taught animal rights law at Harvard and has been called (in the Yale Law Review) "one of the pistons of the animal rights movement," offers compelling scientific and legal answers to that question.

In this brilliant and witty investigation, Wise explores the intelligence and abilities of animals across the evolutionary spectrum -- from his own son and other intelligent primates to dolphins, elephants, parrots, dogs -- even honeybees. The law has critieria for personhood, and by studying and often witnessing the latest research by leading experts in animal intelligence, Wise shows how at least some creatures clearly meet those criteria.
His investigations are as fascinating as they are far-reaching in their implications for the legal rights of animals. Beneath Mount Kilimanjaro, Cynthia Moss shows him the affectionate antics of elephant families. He tracks chimpanzees with Richard Wrangham near Uganda's Mountains of the Moon, converses with Irene Pepperburg and Alex, the African Gey parrot who is learning to spell at MIT, and signs with Penny Patterson and Koko the gorilla in their California sanctuary. Atop the headlands of Monterey Bay, he watches Rocky the sea lion demonstrate her understanding of abstract concepts, while back at home he observes on of the -- surprisingly -- least understood of fellow creatures: Marbury his dog.

Drawing the Line is a scientific and legal milestone on the road to legal rights for nonhuman animals. No one with a shred of curiosity about animals, about rights, or about justice will want to miss this book!

Drawing The Line
Science And The Case For Animal Rights

Hardcover: 336 pages
Perseus Publishing; ISBN: 0738203408; (April 30, 2002)

 

 

You can help support CEFR's work by purchasing Drawing the Line from the link below. CEFR will get 15% of every purchase.

The Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights is a member of
The Chimpanzee Collaboratory
www.chimpcollaboratory.org