Log Cabin, Moderate Republicans Gird For GOP Convention Battle
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(Washington ) A coalition of moderate GOP groups including Log Cabin Republicans are preparing for a battle on the floor of the convention to halt a complete takeover of the party by the far right.

Other members of the coalition include Republicans for Choice, and the Republican Youth Majority.

The three groups Monday called on the Republican Party to adopt a "Party Unity" plank in the GOP platform.

...The coalition said it will take the fight to the platform committee and, if necessary, is not ruling out taking it to the convention floor.

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Anarchy at the RNC
AlterNet.org

Protestors at the Republican National Convention may be trading black masks for tech-savvy tools

...This leaderlessness – "uncoordinated actions toward a coordinated goal," as Siva Vaidhyanathan puts it in his book The Anarchist in the Library – is what links these new-school approaches:

Flash radiojacking: Jeremijenko and the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), will use a special transmitter to break into radio frequencies reserved for corporate stations, giving bursts of information so brief that the FCC can't lock onto their transmission location. During the World Economic Forum demonstrations, BIT called attention to the Bush administration's bogus claims about the safety of the air after 9/11. Each time New York's airborne pollution surpassed the "safe" level, a warning bleep interrupted broadcasts of the local NPR affiliate.

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