(our booth over the weekend, exhibiting a slideshow of past activism)

Sorry about getting this post up so late; we were beat and unpacking and all that today.

Somehow despite being in town the convention was pretty exhausting! We had three long but festive days of outreach.

The ZRC spent Saturday and Sunday all day in the convention’s dealer room, selling Zombie Friendly merchandise, raising money for charity and handing out a lot of pamphlets. A *lot* of pamphlets.

There will eventually be a post up about some of the difficulties we also had at the convention, but for now we’re focusing on the positives. The ZRC accomplished a great deal. By our count between this convention and Discworld Con we’ve handed out hundreds of informational pamphlets alone, and raised a nice chunk of change for the Lurch for the Cure too.

We got to meet a lot of anime fans and assorted varieties of geek this weekend and spoke with them all about the hurtful Anti-Zombie stereotypes prevalent in their favorite shows, videogames and movies, and how that basically should make them feel bad and change their ways. But, you know, we did this in a *friendly* manner!

I think our message reached quite a few people as well. Hearts were opened. Minds were changed.

The complete set of pictures from the Con is available for your perusal here, and below are snapshots of some of our favorite moments.

(We tried to educate this group dressed up as Left 4 Dead characters on Zombie Rights, and I hope we made a difference.)

(This fantastic Dalek patrolled the convention for a couple of days..)

(Along with this huge K9)

(Which the Dalek naturally took into custody alongside the Tardis)

(A Vault dweller from the Zombie Friendly Fallout videogame series! We love Fallout!)

(The kind of cross-narrative car-wreck scene you get at anime conventions. I love it.)

(Seeing Dr. Cancer again and talking Zombie Rights and marches in the hall Saturday night was nice.)

(As was informing the convention goers of Madison’s new Zombie Friendly mayor Paul Soglin)

And finally, the real lesson of the Convention, beyond Zombie Rights?

That it was children all along plotting our destruction and subjugation from inside Dalek casings. Not squid-aliens.

Dun-dun-DUN

Update: Video proving this revelvation:

Tags: Public Appearance, Television, Videogames, Zombie Public Event, Zombies Doing Good

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