John Sears | February 25, 2012
We’ve attended a lot of Halloween events for the ZRC, and seen some political protesting done at them (as well as participated ourselves, like when we took picket signs and a megaphone to Elgin last October). Generally speaking, Halloween is a chance to make a statement, and sometimes those statements (and naturally the costumes that [...]
John Sears | February 23, 2012
This sounds like a fun opportunity for some outreach to Zombie fiction writers in the Northwest, if any Z-Rights activists in the area want to attend: Simply Twisted Productions invites you to attend their first Book Date at the Northwest Film Forum (located at 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122) on February 25th, 2012. Doors [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2012
The Zombie Community obviously has a lot of legitimate grievances with George A. Romero; his highly influential and patently offensive series of Anti-Zombie ‘of the Dead’ films contribute a lot of the ugly prejudices still seen in our society today. Yet he did also make ‘Creepshow’, one of the better Zombie movies, featuring, as it [...]
John Sears | January 10, 2012
It’s a brand new year, and that means it’s time to plot out our next moves in the campaign for full and true Undead Equality here in America. How to reach this lofty goal? Well, in a word: outreach. Lots and lots of outreach. And outreach often means traveling to where people are and educating [...]
John Sears | January 1, 2012
Stories like this are what makes it all worthwhile for the ZRC: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest gathering of zombies ever was held on October 30, 2010 when 4,093 participants gathered on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. But on October 15 of this year, more than 20,000 zombies [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
We came, we saw, we did noble battle against the forces of intolerance. Well, *I* did, anyway. Yes, the trip to engage in a heated ideological struggle for the promotion of Undead Equality has been successfully completed, and I am here to tell about it. And brag about it. Really brag about it. As mentioned [...]
John Sears | November 28, 2011
Yes, that title is partially just an excuse to use the phrase ‘beset by woe’, what can I say, I’m a bit strange. In the last day: -my laptop crashed, corrupting a ton of my files, necessitating an all nighter to restore some things not backed up in Dropbox -one of our bathrooms had a [...]
John Sears | November 20, 2011
I’ve been sitting on this one waiting to make the announcement but I figure that now is as good a time as any. Remember when the ZRC blog excoriated the University of Houston-Victoria for making ‘World War Z’ the centerpiece of their ‘Community of Readers’ program? Well, one thing led to another via the magic [...]
John Sears | November 15, 2011
Here’s a heartwarming update to the scandalous mistreatment of protesters and Zombie Rights activists that we reported on (back in May): Fifteen people who were arrested preemptively on the day of the Royal Wedding have been granted permission to challenge their arrests by way of Judicial Review. The claimants, who were arrested from different locations [...]
John Sears | November 4, 2011
The ZRC has to take issue with the above graphic from Very Small Array on a number of levels. First, regardless of where you live, Zombies are not ‘coming to get you’. Quite frankly, the whole world doesn’t revolve around Living people, and Zombies don’t just exist to ‘get’ them. Zombies are a diverse lot [...]