Hi gang.

I just created a new tribe (see below) and my first impulse was to come invite everyone from this tribe. I figured that you all must be such amazing people if you love the Indigo Girls. Then, I thought, "no, this is a tribe about music, best not to post it here."...but then I thought, this is an issue that the Indigo Girls would get behind themselves so after all it's not that inappropriate! So, if you'll pardon the interruption, here ya go!

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The pleasure of your participation is requested.

Tribe.net has its first tribe dedicated solely to the legal rights of animals - and you're invited!

tribes.tribe.net/animalrights

This tribe is dedicated to the promotion and enshrinement in national and international law of the rights of non-human animals to live free from human exploitation and to live in harmony with their nature, rather than according to human desires. Here, we discuss philosophy and news related to the positive progress towards these rights.

We also discuss why the establishment of laws (and attitudes) that protect the dignity and inherent worth of non-human animals is in our *own* interest (this is known as Enlightened Self-Interest).

As Arthur Schopenhauer said:

"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

I believe we are transitioning from the second to the third stage. Please join me in welcoming it.

If you care about the fate of non-human animals, indeed if you care about the fate of *humans*, I urge you to join the tribe and facilitate the move towards a better world for us all.

Thank you.

tribes.tribe.net/animalrights

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