John Sears | April 16, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign’s work has given me the opportunity to travel quite a bit, and go to a lot film festivals and theatre venues here in the Midwest. We’ve been to the Portage Theatre in Chicago many times for events with the Horror Society. We’ve been at every Dark Carnival Film Festival yet, held [...]
John Sears | April 15, 2011
Faithful readers of the ZRC blog (who surely exist in teeming numbers) may recall that The Zombie Rights Campaign recently pledged support for ‘Mother’s Blood’, an independent horror film, after receiving assurances that the production was a Zombie Friendly shop: Working with independent filmmakers is one of our favorite activities here at The Zombie Rights [...]
John Sears | April 14, 2011
We’ve talked about those ‘pranks’ Anti-Zombie bigots are playing around the country, reprogramming roadside warning signs to display derogatory messages about Zombies. Sometimes they target schoolchildren for their propaganda. Sadly it appears that some police officers in Salem, MA are credulous enough, or biased enough, to take these ‘warnings’ at face value: At 4:40 a.m. [...]
John Sears | April 14, 2011
Well gang, the ZRC auction is coming to an end. In six days and change the shirts and bands come down; we’re edging toward 300 dollars altogether, which isn’t bad, I think. Of course, you can help us do better! Go here and buy a fine shirt or some wristbands. Do it for the Red [...]
John Sears | April 13, 2011
Our coverage of Harcos Labs (as seen here, here and here) seems to have struck a nerve, as they’ve resorted to the last refuge of all cruel tyrants, the brutal oppression of innocent civilians: In response to @Zombie_Rights boycotting of @harcoslabs, Harcos is boycotting zombie rights. #itssadwhen intolerance leads to intolerance. (Harcos Labs) @harcoslabs How, [...]
John Sears | April 13, 2011
We had a great time at last year’s event so you know the ZRC will be there this time: It’s that time again, zombies! We are having another zombie march on June 11 from 3-6pm. The rules are very simple: dress and be made up as a zombie and just shamble and act like one. [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2011
A response to this post at The Zombie Feed. What is it that makes an author write a story attacking the Differently Animated? Sure, there’s the monetary angle, the fact that Anti-Zombie fiction is hot now and therefore it’s easier to get published, and the nasty anti-social tendencies of writers in general. (I know from [...]
John Sears | April 7, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign was, as previously noted here on the blog, very pleased to have two Zombie Tolerant mayoral candidates in the Madison election. Well, on Tuesday night, after a very close contest, Paul Soglin won the election: Maybe he is mayor for life. In a scenario unlikely only a few months ago, former [...]
John Sears | April 6, 2011
Today the ZRC got a surprise via Twitter and Facebook: Harcos Labs, infamous makers of ‘Zombie Blood’ and ‘Zombie Jerky’ snack products, also known for their Anti-Zombie propaganda videos, had decided to issue a response to our critique of their Youtube campaign. Harcos: Harcos Labs Responds to Zombie Rights Campaign’s Accusation Zombie-friendly laboratory discusses newest [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
Depressingly, the variety of Anti-Zombie videogames just seems to keep increasing at a steady clip. Perhaps tiring of the Zombie Apocalypse theme, Anti-Zom developers are branching out: There’s no denying it. Zombie games make money. No one has anything against a good zombie game really, it’s just that there’s a lot of them. So we [...]