John Sears | March 27, 2011
Just for the record, things have been getting kind of crazy up here in Madison lately, and might start interfering with ZRC work next week, so I thought a quick update could be useful. Basically, the union-busting law, which we feel is the thin end of a wedge to persecute all groups of collectively minded [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
Man. It has been a much more relaxed week for the ZRC, protest-wise anyway. The news keeps coming in though, so here are some highlights for our readers. 1) A series of lawsuits against the highly irregular and (most likely) illegal tactics used to pass the Anti-Union, Anti-Zombie, Anti-Poor, Anti-Student, Anti-Everybody Really bill have been [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
I haven’t uploaded absolutely everything yet, but I have a decent slate of videos the ZRC took at the rally yesterday to share with our dedicated blogging audience. (Opening ceremonies, singalong of an old union song.) (A fantastic speech about the natural alliance of farmers, who are after all rural labor, and traditional urban labor [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
At the rally Saturday I saw a man holding a sign that, unfortunately, perpetuates some negative stereotypes about the Differently Animated. Now, of course, some Zombies like brains. Some Zombies require brains as part of their balanced diet, in the same way that Living people need Vitamin C or diabetics need insulin. It’s nothing to [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
Yesterday I went down to the protests at the Capitol, and they were easily the biggest yet. It took me an hour to get parked and I was using the city garage furthest from the square. If I had to estimate, given that previous large protests were rated at 80k+ people, this one probably involved [...]
John Sears | March 11, 2011
hee. I’m definitely a Mountain Goats fan so this is nice information to have, and it comes with a cool video from JD of The Mountain Goats to share: Power In A Union from JD on Vimeo.
John Sears | March 11, 2011
I’ve been doing a lot of Madison related stuff here on the blog lately, and have received, shall we say, polite criticism for drifting off the main topic a bit, so I think it would be useful to outline precisely why the current struggle here in Wisconsin matters for Zombies and for the Zombie Rights [...]
John Sears | March 11, 2011
It’s sad that this has to be pointed out, but, as someone interested in the long-term health of various social justice movements, both those directly stemming from the ZRC’s core mission and those conducted in solidarity, I have to do so: When the police use force to remove someone against their will, that is violence. [...]
John Sears | March 10, 2011
(My mood after this whole mess can be summed up by this photo) Last night, after hearing about the highly unusual, extremely dubiously legal trickery being used to attack Wisconsin workers and the universal human right to form a union, I went down to the Capitol for some first hand reporting. What I saw there [...]
John Sears | March 9, 2011
Had some ZRC computer issues that ate up a big chunk of my day today. Yes, I run a good anti-virus/anti-malware program (Avast!), and yes, it’s always on, and yes, it auto-updates. Still got a Trojan. Sigh. But hey, everything’s cleaned off now, and I get back online to find out that the whole world’s [...]