Zombie Walk Gets Amazing, Mostly Positive Press
The Zombie Walk Against Governor Walker (which the ZRC of course attended) has been getting lots of press, and surprisingly, a few stereotypical ‘Zombie’ jokes aside, it’s mostly positive!
From AMERICAblog:
It seems more zombies turned out in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend than Teabaggers turned out in DC last week. Yeah, that’s right — zombies in Madison. Hundreds of them. Protesting a lack of brains (their favorite food, of course) under the Badger rotunda.
It’s true that there were a sizeable number of Zombies who needed some brains to eat at the Walk, but to be fair, none of the restaurants on State Street serve brains, which surprises me regularly.
DailyKos unfortunately stooped pretty low to make some Anti-Zombie cracks:
I’m sorry I had to miss this one. Maybe if they’d scheduled it for after dark, like proper zombie organizers should, I could have joined in. But I guess they figured that no one else would be there to see them at night.
I’m pleased to say, that like all previous outpourings of citizens at the Capitol, this was an entirely peaceful and non-violent rally. (Easy for us regular folks, but you have to figure it was quite a challenge for this group.)
Zombies are people too, DK diarist. They don’t resort to violence just because they’re Undead; that’s a harmful stereotype pushed by the Anti-Zombie media.
The DK diary does embed one of the ZRC’s photos though, so thanks for the flickr traffic, I guess.
An Examiner article does a much better job for the most part:
Saturday Wisconsin Zombies rallied in Madison to protest Governor Scott Walker and the state GOP attempt to strip union members of long cherished collective bargaining rights. The good natured march was organized via the social networking website Facebook.
Just so. It was a great day and fun for all concerned.
The ZRC Banner can be seen in the Examiner’s video, in fact:
We’re at about the 35 second mark; my hair has rapidly started to lose all of its blue, just in time to end up on the national media! Oh, I look like I have a mohawk, it’s so sad.
But enough vanity. More coverage? Yes, there is more!
From Current.com:
Creatively they marched in protest gaining momentum as they were met with approval by onlookers while carrying signs and moaning in search of brains.
“What do we want?” “Brains!” they chanted.
These committed protesters made a pact that this would be a peaceful march, in opposition to Governor Walker’s attempt to eradicate Collective Bargaining rights.
As mentioned above, it’s true that, literally speaking, there is a dearth of Zombie-centered cuisine on State Street, however I think most of the ‘Brains’ chanting was meant either ironically or allegorically; if one talked to the Zombies it was clear they really wanted a better class of politician, not to eat said politician’s brain.
Which is what you’d expect from an engaged Undead citizenry.
Even Faux News was there to see the Differently Animated protest for positive change:
I think this rally has not just elevated Zombie issues to local attention, but it’s helped to promote a more positive image of Zombies *nationally*, and that’s amazing.
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