Our hero Anne Elizabeth Moore is blogging from the Republican National Convention at the Feministing Community and Code Pink. You can also follow her on Twitter.

“So what does it take to have an entire city — a traditionally progressive blue collar one, but drifting toward the conservative of late — and the majority its intellectuals, activists, attorneys, youth, and educators up in arms? Excessive, illegal police brutality, clearly intended to scare the masses away from their first amendment-guaranteed right to freedom of speech,” Anne writes in this first dispatch on the arrests of activisits.