I wanted to share with you this amazing photojournalism series about a Zombie Walk in Moscow, cruelly dispersed by an authoritarian crackdown against the Differently Animated:

This year’s Zombie Parade held for the 5th consecutive year, and it was noted by riot police arrests of participants. On Saturday at the Old Arbat, despite the rain, held a wonderful zombie Flash mob. Toward the end of the march, when the bulk of the crowd was dispersed, the police arrived. Riot police began to gently load of zombies and other bloodstained figures in keyway. Detained about 30 people, mostly boys and girls without documents.

Not every city can be another Madison or Chicago, tragically, and the Undead face oppression and persecution around the world, not just in the United States.

Here we had a perfectly civil and reasonable event, just some Differently Animated citizens out for a stroll, a public gathering to remind the Living community that yes, the Undead were still here (or there, as it were). But The Man had to come and bust up the festivities, and of course, they used the old canard of ‘papers’ as an excuse, as if the routine denial of paperwork to the Undead was not commonplace to begin with.

It’s a Catch-22 of Prejudice against Undeath.

I urge you to go to this site and bear witness to what clearly would have been a great event about celebrating Unlife if not for the arbitrary and harsh abuse of the rights of the Differently Animated by the Russian authorities.

For shame. For shame.

Tags: Zombie Art, Zombie Public Event

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