Jenny the ZRC Art Director | June 1, 2013
Art-and-codemonkey here: I’m tired of getting emails letting me know that spam comments are being held in the moderation queue, so I’ve hacked up the template PHP enough to stick in a CAPTCHA plugin. If anyone has any difficulties they should let us know by… well, perhaps not commenting, but the Twitter and the Facebook [...]
John Sears | April 19, 2013
Hi Zombie Readers. Basically Akismet has completely fallen down on the job for the last few days, so as an interim measure, to leave a comment going forward you have to have at least one comment approved by an admin first. For actual humans, Living or Undead, this will not prove terribly problematic. This isn’t [...]
John Sears | April 9, 2013
Just a quick announcement here at the end of a hectic semester training to be the world’s first Zombie Rights Lawyer to note that the ZRC will be at Horrorhound Indianapolis 2013 this upcoming September! We expect to have new wares and new grievances to explore and agitate against, and as has become the custom [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2012
Zombies as a community face a lot of trials in our contemporary society: open scapegoating and fearmongering from a hostile media, overtly violent attacks by Survivalists, governmental oppression. It’s also worth noting, however, the way private sector institutions discriminate against the Undead, depriving them of vital services. Case in point: Life Insurance. Clearly Zombies have [...]
John Sears | September 14, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign has strong opinions about ‘Resident Evil’, as you can see in our educational literature (which will need updating again soon… sigh) One of those opinions, aside from disliking the viciously Anti-Zombie prejudice, of course, is a cynical appreciation of the bewildering number of ways Capcom has found to cash-in on its [...]
John Sears | August 15, 2012
First, let me apologize for the belated post; ran into a few difficulties, including photographing some items. So the Thing Rights Campaign was devised, in part thanks to the encouragement of ZRC pal Michelle Hartz, to take the important issue of Things and their proper, and often sadly ignored, civil liberties to Flashback Weekend, featuring [...]
John Sears | August 13, 2012
Been catching up on some stuff and housework after a very successful bit of outreach at Flashback Weekend. Will have a writeup soon, but suffice it to say we talked Thing Rights and Zombie Rights with some very important people. Also, saw ‘The Thing’ on the big screen. Which was sad, as it is a [...]
John Sears | July 20, 2012
Using various cultures and peoples as sports mascots has a long and often troubled history. For every ‘Fighting Irish’ that’s generally seen as harmless you have a plethora of, say, Native American mascots that are far more controversial. It’s a touchy subject. Keeping that in mind, and also bearing in mind the current status of [...]
John Sears | July 19, 2012
The ZRC loved Zombie Bohemia. I mean, seriously loved it. A Zombie Friendly story about an Undead *artist* struggling to make an Unliving in the hyper-competitive Fine Arts world? And a cast and crew open to constructive criticism and advice from the Undead Rights Movement? Excellent. Now you, lucky Zombie Rights Allies of the Internet, [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2012
We’ve been looking at the recent Magic: the Gathering expansions into the world of gothic horror and lamenting the cruel mistreatment of the Zombie Community represented by these cards. Not to sound melodramatic, but it can be more than a little dispiriting when the lengthy and completely unjust persecution of an entire people (or, arguably, [...]