Peace movement goes high tech

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/12474934.htm

Peace movement goes high tech

CRAWFORD _ Unlike war protesters of the past, demonstrators at the Peace House and "Camp Casey" here have gone high tech and mass transit.

"We've got quite an infrastructure. A lot of companies don't have what we've got out there in the cow pasture," said Carl Rising-Moore, a contract painter, "full-time activist" and a driver for the fleet of six late-model extended vans rented by the Peace House to shuttle members back and forth from Crawford to their camp sites near President Bush's ranch.

Like the old days, the proverbial peace sign is plastered everywhere _ on the vans, on T-shirts and on signs lining the road to Bush's presidential retreat. But that is where memory lane ends and modern-day gadgets begin.

Camp Casey II, the largest of the encampments erected by those protesting the Iraq War, is shaded by a rented multi-coned canopy that, ironically, was used by Bush for a re-election fund-raiser in 2004. The place is equipped with wireless Internet connections, cell phone boosters to improve phone reception on the prairie, a sophisticated mobile kitchen and toilet facilities.

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1. It goes to show you, liberal is lot smarter than Corporate!!!

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2. I remember reading about

Bush's first inauguration, and how law enforcement was trying to keep protestors away. When one group started meeting resistance trying to get somewhere, they sent out text messages through their phones to the other groups to warn them or call for help. I bet the group that protested him and egged his car used technology to get there.

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