Poultrygeist

May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Oh. My. God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VXDbUE3Et8

“Here’s a supershort synopsis: A KFC-like fast food joint opens up on an ancient Native American burial ground. A group of college lesbian animal rights activists protest the restaurant, but fail to close it before zombie chickens hatch and reap bloody revenge on everyone in sight, including D-list porn star turned PETA activist Ron Jeremy.”

Official synopsis:

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy… with musical numbers!

When well-meaning but somewhat dim Arbie (Jason Yachanin) returns to the spot of his first (and only) romantic encounter with his high school sweetheart– the not-so-romantic Ancient Tromahawk Tribe Indian Burial Ground– he is shocked to discover two horrible realities:

Not only has the graveyard been bulldozed to make room for the newest fast-food “American Chicken Bunker” chain restaurant, but after only one semester at college, his girlfriend Wendy (Kate Graham) has been transformed into a left-wing, lipstick-lesbian liberal, and spends her free time protesting the corporate takeover of America.

Reeling from heartbreak and a brutal beating from Micki (Allyson Sereboff), Wendy’s new activist girlfriend, Arbie channels his spite into applying for a job at the very restaurant they are protesting against.

But something else is feeling wronged by all of the construction and commotion… Something not human…

Meanwhile, newly employed Arbie’s new coworkers are a colorful group: the sassy manager Denny (Joshua Olatunde); the burqa-clad Muslim, Humus (Rose Ghavami); the animal-loving yokel Carl, Jr. (Caleb Emerson); the effete Mexican spitfire Paco Bell (Khalid Rivera); and a mysterious 60-year-old man who has been working in fast-food all his life (Lloyd Kaufman).

Together, they slowly uncover the supernatural secret of the American Chicken Bunker, while the owner General Lee Roy (Robin L. Watkins) tries to keep a lid on everything, lest the scandal taint his growing empire. But once workers and customers start dying in bizarre and grotesque ways, it becomes clear that this isn’t just a mild case of salmonella … but something much more FOWL.

Will Arbie and his friends stop the supernatural before they infect all the artificial food stuffs, the customers or even the world? Will Arbie be able to win Wendy back now that he’s making minimum-wage? What’s Carl Jr. doing with that frozen chicken? And what’s with all the singing and dancing?

It’s Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead!

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Animals, Food, Politics, Sexuality, TV and Film, veganism
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Happy Mother’s Day

May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

These pictures speak for themselves. They are images of children the Iraq war.

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A girl holds a sign that reads “I am Iraq.”

A father cradles his wounded child.

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Small girl crying as family flees from smoke cloud.

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A young boy sits on the dirt ground. In the background is a large tank.

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A boy with a large gun.

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Two boys hold pistols to a smaller boy’s head.

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A boy kicks a ball around. In the background there’s a fire.

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A boy behind a wire fence holds a sign that reads “Democracy is not to force peoples to follow USA.”

You can see the entire set of images of children in Iraq here.

Thanks to Kay Olson at Gimp Parade, who blogged about these photos:

Pharmaceutical companies lie for profit, children are given shock therapy, returning military vets are discharged without adequate health care.

And yet, the greatest example of disablism at work in the world today is this immoral war in Iraq that terrifies, maims, and kills while also destroying the existing social structure of supports that could help manage the everyday needs of Iraqi citizens. Maybe it sounds like a stretch to call civilian war casualties disablism in action, but what is disableist policy if not a policy that holds the lives, bodies and minds of others so cheaply?

See the Gimp Parade’s set of photos and read commentary here >>

Let us, this Mother’s Day, treat the children of the world better than we have been treating them. Let’s give Mother Earth a rest, too. We MUST end this immoral war.

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Family, Kids, & Friends, Feminism, Politics, Racism, The World, abilism
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“Normal” People

May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The US has 10 million vegetarians and 290 million normal people. (source: FARK)

Argh!

Instead of writing about this, I’ll just refer you to this podcast.

Hat tip: Tony.

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Politics, veganism
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Newest Union Busting Strategy: Call Them Terrorists

May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

An anonymous anti-union, anti-environmental, anti-animal group paid big bucks for a full page advertisement in the NY Times recently. The ad urges people to go to a website, nysehostage.com, where they say these organizations are terrorist organizations:

The website says:

“Anti-business activism is alive, well, and as radical as ever. Animal ‘rights’ violence and eco-terrorism are just two of the movement’s many bitter flavors.”

That’s right. Those of us in the animal rights movement have been saying, “first they’ll silence us and put us in jail, next it will be you.” Yes, now they’re going after the unions. Who do you think they’ll go after next?

What do they want? They say:

“a properly operating private stock exchange”

Apparently they define “properly operating” as ‘operating without any influence from concerned American citizens.’ Does their idea sound like a good thing to you? And if it’s such a good idea, why are they anonymous?

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Guns, Police, Children

May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Rebecca Walker wrote recently:

“I think about what I’m going to tell my son about the police when he’s old enough for it to matter.

“I will have to tell him the truth: he should expect and demand the police protect him. He should know they may not. [...]

“I will do my best to preserve my son’s sense of hope and wonderment about the world, his sense of safety. [...]

“I will tell him he must be especially cautious of being in the wrong place at the wrong time; it can cost him his life. [...]

“I will teach him to step away from the window.”

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Family, Kids, & Friends, Politics
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