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Plans to Target Transportation Infrastructure Surrounding Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention-Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC) is an anarchist/anti-authoritarian group that formed in the spring of 2007 in order to disrupt or stop the Republican National Convention (RNC). It is likely that they will target transportation infrastructure surrounding the RNC in an attempt to accomplish their goal. The RNC-WC strategy utilizes a layered approach that emphasizes flexibility and diversity of tactics in order to maximize member strengths and knowledge, both individually as well as en masse. Overall, the RNC-WC’s early formation, comprehensive membership drives, strategic partnerships and flexibility is likely to result in a more robust and balanced effort than other groups’ at previous conventions. Also, a basic social network analysis shows the RNC-WC’s potentially high power centrality and betweenness relative to other protest/anarchist groups with similar intentions, and reveals that collaboration and information sharing are likely prevalent.
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