John Sears | March 9, 2012
It’s well-known that we don’t get along with the ‘Zombie Research Society’ here at The Zombie Rights Campaign; their ‘research’ is geared toward hurting the Undead, and they certainly don’t want Zombies to have rights. Which, to be clear, is a bigoted and offensive position to take. Meanies. This poster they’ve commissioned for their Undead-bashing [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2012
We talked about the Wisconsin Voter ID law a long while ago now, in blog-time, and how the ZRC opposed it as a measure seemingly designed to put up roadblocks to prevent Zombies from voting (along with the poor, urban, and student populations who traditionally lean Democratic). Well, that law is now on hiatus: A [...]
John Sears | March 4, 2012
The Zombie Research Society folks had a cautionary tale on their blog recently: This news isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of our favorite stories in recent memory. A 22-year-old man in Colorado, Brandon Duke, was convicted of attempted murder after shooting at a local police officer trying to arrest him. At the time of [...]
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 22, 2012
Unsatisfied with tying Zombies to every social ill rhetorically, some woefully ignorant individuals are stooping to forging the link between Undeath and various unpleasant things themselves: Gainesville Police Department Lt. Art Adkins can deliver this line with a straight face: “We’ve had an uptick in recent zombie activity.” … Until this month, police were using [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2012
Last year I worked for some time on a secret project, one which I kept even from you, dear readers and Zombie Rights allies, but am now happy to disclose: I have formally set out on a quest to help take our advocacy of Undead Equality to the next level by becoming a lawyer. Specifically, [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2012
This story saddened us a lot here at the ZRC, and I struggled with how to respond. It’s not every day that prominent politicians come out and explicitly state their intention to deny an entire community of American citizens their basic rights after all. Yet that is precisely what we’ve seen this week from South [...]
John Sears | January 23, 2012
There’s a burgeoning subgenre of what you might call Zombie Romance (as opposed to the hyper-violent ‘Rom-Zom-Com’ represented by ‘Shaun of the Dead’). We saw (and loved) ‘Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story’ and ‘Z-Town: The Zombie Musical’ last year, for example, and ‘Warm Bodies’ is well underway. Still, the more the merrier, especially if the [...]
John Sears | January 19, 2012
We’ve talked about indie (and fairly obviously Anti-Zom) film ‘The Dead’ before on the ZRC blog. Well, now it’s coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray: Been awhile since we wrote about this flick; I just learned (via Quiet Earth) that it’s heading for home video – DVD/Blu-ray – on February 14th, just under a month [...]
John Sears | January 17, 2012
The following post is rather long but important. The short story: the ZRC website and blog will be down on Wednesday, January 18th as part of a (much) larger internet protest against an odious proposed new censorship law, the Stop Online Piracy/PROTECT IP Act. This law directly threatens what we do here at the ZRC, [...]