John Sears | May 2, 2011
In America, immigration is a charged topic and framed mostly along the lines of people coming across from Mexico, legally and illegally, along with policy questions over H1-B visas that rankle the tech sector in particular, mostly out of proportion to the relatively small number of visas actually granted. Periodically measures come up attempting to [...]
John Sears | May 2, 2011
I was forwarded this story rather vociferously and repeatedly on Twitter, which only goes to show that we have an engaged following even internationally, which is very humbling for The Zombie Rights Campaign. In short, although great progress has been achieved in some areas, especially here in the ZRC’s home base of Madison and in [...]
John Sears | May 1, 2011
This could be really exciting news: Universal Pictures is negotiating with Jeff Bridges to star with Ryan Reynolds in the Robert Schwentke-directed supernatural comedy R.I.P.D. The film centers on a police force comprised of undead officers, based on the Peter Lenkov comic. What’s R.I.P.D. you ask? Welcome to the Rest In Peace Department — the [...]
John Sears | April 23, 2011
(The hate-filled trailer for the game that seeks to make Zombie-bashing the new Easter celebration activity) It’s no secret, and not hugely relevant for ZRC purposes, that I’m not a religious person. In some ways it might help me to view the Undead in a more evenhanded way, since I don’t approach the subject with [...]
John Sears | April 21, 2011
We mentioned the Columbus Zombie Walk benefiting the Mid-Ohio Food Bank earlier here on the ZRC blog, and got a comment on it a while later that I’ve been meaning to forward to you, our dedicated readership. Basically, we can’t all be in Columbus, but through the magic of the internet, anyone can help them [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2011
As much as I suspect you love it when I latch on to a quasi-academic excuse to be prejudiced against the Differently Animated, I had to comment on this one from The Zombie Feed: “But Where Did All You Zombies Come From?” by Brandon Alspaugh Zombies are always hungry. I had begun a fairly dry, [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
I’d heard about this movie before, and even seen the trailer, but something about it didn’t stick for me until I watched a scene on FEARnet today, and now I’m legitimately excited. The movie is called ‘Dylan Dog: Dead of Night’, and on the surface is a fairly bland seeming, Hellblazer-ish story about the one [...]
John Sears | April 16, 2011
Hopefully it will be as socially progressive and supportive of the Differently Animated as possible too: DeKALB – Don’t be surprised to see a few hundred decomposing zombies staggering around Northern Illinois University this weekend. The DeKalb Zombie Walk 2011 Facebook page has garnered 600 responses from people saying they plan to participate in the [...]
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
Here’s a disturbing taste of Anti-Zombie film: not only are the Zombie characters treated badly, but the actors wishing to portray them are kept separate from those who want to play the Living characters: FLINT, Michigan — Interested in starring in a zombie flick? The writers of a zombie short filming in and around Flint [...]