ZOMBIES FOR A NUCLEAR APOLOCYPSE

Aug 13, 2009 by phinharper    2 Comments    Posted under: Span That World

ACTION REPORT

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DATE – 08/08/09
TIME – 15.00 HOURS.
SITE – BRADFORD CITY CENTRE

PARTICIPENTS – OVER 150 YOUNG ZOMBIES

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OBJECTIVE – TOTAL PLANETARY ANNHIALATION.

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BROTHERS, SISTERS, GHOULS AND CORPSES – IT HAS BEGUN. WE HAVE TAKEN OUR MESSAGE OF DESTRUCTION TO THE PUBLIC AND THEY HAVE LISTENED. Now is the time to move forward, to campaign and coaxe these apocalypse-teasing humans into a far more definite dead end.

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Things began, as they so often do, with a morning make up session.

Even Zombies require the odd touch up for the cameras.

With Fela Kuti ‘Zombie’ blasting from the DF Camp stereo, we donned our best protest gear and began the long walk to our destination.

Despite our flaky skin and withering bones we made the jaunt into an exuberant one, practicing our chants on the bemused humans of Shipley Golf Course.

‘1, 2, 3, 4 What do we want? NUCLEAR WAR 5, 6, 7, 8- This world we’ll obliterate’

Piling politely into Bingley Train Station, I could not but help marvel at the sheer volume of Zombies in attendance- finally we are putting our differences aside to persue our common goal- the end of the world. Even the feminist Zombie splinter group had showed up for the fun!

We we’re met by the zombie-tinged rave noise of our customary mobile soundsystem once in Bradford. We danced, stumbled and chanted our way through Bradford’s main streets towards it’s epicentre, Centenary Square.
Several phone calls revealed that the Zombies up at Menwith Hill we’re having a super spiffing time spreading our message of support to the American intelligence services there.

We arrived in the centre just in time for a wonderful photo shoot with a slightly bemused man from the Telegraph and Argus, Bradford’s biggest paper. Safe to say, the Zombies looked beautiful in the morning paper the following Monday, especially the one lucky ZNA activist who got a front-page snap!

But alas! Catastrophe! A small section of the march had found themselves stranded at Bingley station and we’re currently taking part in a smaller but no less ferocious navigation of Bradford’s city centre.

A few more phone calls and we all managed to converge (quite accidentally!) outside the Bradford Army Recruitment Centre, much to dismay of a few passing squaddies and the three Community Support Officers we had picked up along the way.

Lesson learnt – never leave a Zombie behind, always keep phone contact up!

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One particularly irate (not-quite) policeman gave us these beautiful insights:

POLICEMAN: – ‘I just don’t fucking get it! You want more bombs?! How can you be protesting FOR bombs?! Are you just taking the piss?’

ZOMBI: ‘Of course not, we’re on your side you see. Government policy calls for more Nuclear Weapons, we just don’t think it goes far enough. Surely as an arm of the state you can support our call for increased spending on weapons of mass destruction’

[POLICEMAN IS DETERRED FROM CUMMENTING BY HIS BEARDED, STOIC, COMPADRE]

ZOMBI: ‘At the end of the day the army is one of our biggest allies, they want destruction, so do we.’

POLICEMAN: – ‘But the army are not about destruction! They are about PEACE!’

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CLICK HERE to see web coverage of the march in Bradford’s local paper The T + A. Such is the impressive propaganda of our human enemies, they hide behind terms like ‘Independent Deterrent’, ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ and ‘Collateral Damage’… sometimes I think they don’t need Zombiefying at all, our job is already done!

Take these wonderful insights from the T + A website comments page:

Mike Strutter, Queensbury says:
4:23pm Sun 9 Aug 09

“Protester Joel White, 19, of Undercliffe, Bradford, said the weekend protest was held in the city due to its proximity with the US missile defence base at Menwith Hill.”

Why not Harrogate then ?

Get a job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Beautiful! What Mike Strutter dosnt realise is that there are protests at Menwith, every week on a Tuesday organised by CAAB

And that the article very clearly says that we did protest at Menwith Hill on that day too, but chose to go in two groups so that we could spread the message.

After all – Nuclear Weapons make NOWHERE safe. Which is why we love them!

Albion, West Riding says:
11:38am Mon 10 Aug 09

“Protests like this have gone on since Aldermarston in 1958, they have achieved nothing”

Well, whisper it, but this simply isn’t true. This graph shows how Nuclear Stockpiles have depleted in the two biggest nuclear states in the world.

CND and pro-disarmament lobbies have been having an effect over the last 50 years- just look at Obama, who could have envisioned an American President saying  ”I will lay out an agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons”

As a Zombie, I think this is very dangerous indeed.

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This day proved the power of collective ZNA action. It has sown seeds for bigger and better national actions to come, along with grassroots ZNA work across the country.

Now is the time to organise a ZNA march in your city, town, village or hamlet.

- Find out which of your local MPs vote for Trident Renewal or against renewable energy, go and congratulate them with a few ZNA mates.

- Head into town with a boombox and spread the gospel.

- Make sure you document everything and get it all collated on our soon-to-be-ready ZNA website.

- For now- get all your friends onto the facebook group:

ZNA starts here. Together we can ensure a nuclear future of complete destruction!