John Sears | December 19, 2009
The Zombie Rights Campaign would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers, living and unliving alike, a happy and festive holiday season. It’s the perfect time of year to warm your room temperature flesh by a roaring fire (not too close now or you’ll combust), sip a hot mug of mulled [...]
John Sears | October 24, 2009
So we apparently got a link from a rabidly Anti-Zombie website, the National Center for Reanimation Prevention and Control. They feel that the concept of Zombie Rights is somehow absurd, and suggest that the rights in question should be the right to a messy death at the hands of a gun-toting vigilante. I hate to [...]
John Sears | September 26, 2009
We’ve been thinking a lot about language here at the ZRC lately; specifically, the language relating to the Undead and their long-denied struggle for acceptance and equality. When the living talk about Zombies, they often use terms like ‘rotting corpse’, ‘living dead’, ‘shambler’, ‘slow-walker’ and the like, expressing their disdain and intolerance. But even the [...]
John Sears | August 31, 2009
So the chairwoman of the ZRC had to catch a flight today for her day-job, and was sporting her personal copy of the prototype ZRC shirt (which you get a sneak preview of here), which led to an eye-opening discussion about the cause of Zombie Rights when she checked in at the ticket kiosk. Apparently [...]
John Sears | August 31, 2009
This is just a quick update to let loyal Zombie Rights supporters know that the main ZRC website, http://zombierightscampaign.org, will shortly be free of all those pesky ‘Coming Soon’ labels and full of shiny new content. We also are working hard on the merchandise for the ZRC store, and getting shipping and billing details worked [...]
John Sears | August 22, 2009
The Zombie Rights Campaign sent representatives as planned to the RiffTrax Live event on Thursday, expecting a fun evening featuring the satire of an old and remarkably terrible zombie movie. Unfortunately, rather than providing a light-hearted look at outmoded zombie stereotypes, the show perpetuated modern lifeist prejudices against the undead community. A particular low-point [...]
John Sears | August 19, 2009
Tomorrow at 8pm Eastern RiffTrax is doing a live event making light of one of the most infamous zombie movies of all time, Plan 9 from Outer Space. The Zombie Rights Campaign will be sending representatives to a screening at the Point Cinemas 16 in Madison, WI for the show, but recommends that zombie rights [...]
John Sears | August 19, 2009
The Zombie Rights Campaign, in its efforts to keep informed about treatment of zombies in society and depictions of the differently animated in the media, consumes a wide variety of entertainment products. Sadly, those with an uplifting and positive message for the living dead are few and far between. The recently concluded Marvel Zombies 4 [...]
John Sears | August 19, 2009
Anti-zombie prejudice has many ugly forms, and comes from many sources. Television, comic books, literature. Can there be any doubt, however, as to the source of the worst and ugliest stereotypes about the differently animated? I refer of course, to the ‘Zombie Movie’. Even amongst zombie movies, with their gore and violence and lifeism, one [...]
John Sears | June 14, 2009
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