Help the People of the Sea
Starfire Tor considers whales and dolphins the people of the sea. They are sentient, they are sensitive, they are emotionally complex and have good minds, and they are hunted down and eaten by countries like Japan, Iceland, Norway and others.
In this edition of Dreamland, she issues a call to arms, to completely change the way we look at them, to stop even calling them animals and refer to them instead as the people of the sea, and extend to them the same rights to freedom from interference and the sanctity of life that we extend to each other.
Listen as she tells us about her stirring idea, and how simple–and absolutely free–it is to join the effort to keep countries like Japan from overturning the whaling ban that is now in effect.
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