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...Trade Organization, the bureaucrats may not have accomplished all that much last week. The chaos that surrounded them did. In this moment of triumphant capitalism, of planetary cash flows and a priapic Dow, all the second thoughts and outright furies about the global economy collected on the streets of downtown Seattle and crashed through the windows of NikeTown. After two days of uproar scented with tear gas and pepper spray, Americans may never again think the same way about free trade and what it costs...
...backlash in the streets started Tuesday morning, several hours before more than 25,000 largely peaceful marchers headed from a union-backed rally at Memorial Stadium, near the Space Needle, toward the shops and hotels of downtown. Many thousands of other protesters were already converging there, some engaged in peaceful sit-ins that blocked traffic. Things got serious when scattered groups of self-described Black Block anarchists, wearing all-black outfits with handkerchiefs or hoods covering their faces, started to smash windows and trash businesses, giving special attention to companies such as the Gap and Nike that have been accused...
...visiting dignitaries--including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Barshefsky--spent part of Tuesday trapped in their hotels. With the morning's opening ceremonies canceled, frustrated delegates spent the hours muttering into their cell phones. By late afternoon, as police moved through downtown in armored personnel carriers, a stunned Mayor Paul Schell asked Washington Governor Gary Locke to send in the National Guard. Schell also slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the city's downtown and imposed a 50-square-block no-protest order on downtown, which left demonstrators furious...
...dissonant sights, sounds and people. Each line, for instance, is unique and uniquely suited to the neighborhoods it connects. The relative cleanliness of the Red Line is well-suited for the ever-vigilant vanity of Harvard and MIT, as the grimy intimacy of Green Line cars fits the downtown neighborhoods they visit...
Sometimes even democracy needs a little wake-up call. Beyond the varied issues that got them out on the streets - and the violent methods favored by a minority among them - the demonstrators who battled police for control of downtown Seattle over the past few days issued a profound challenge to politics as usual in the Clinton...