THE CHICAGO PRECEDENT.(The Talk of the Town)(protest planning for Republican National Convention in New York City)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 12-JUL-04

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A case can be made that no political assembly in history has inspired more elaborate and widespread opposition planning than the impending Republican National Convention. At the web site CounterConvention.org, more than a hundred and thirty organizations, with such names as the Campaign to Demilitarize the Police, the Mad Anarchist Bakers League, and the Vomitorium, have registered in solidarity against the President's renomination gala. High Times is publishing a special "Activists' Guide" to protesting the Republicans' arrival. And, according to The Nation, "the city itself may become a giant art installation," featuring a variety of as yet unspecified "visual interventions" directed at airplane passengers.

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