January 10, 2000 FEATURES A special report: After Seattle After Seattle BY DAVID MOBERG Making History BY DAVID BACON Anarchy in the USA BY DAVID GRAEBER A Secret World BY JOHN VIDAL Real Free Trade BY DEAN BAKER Late Breaking News BY DENNIS HANS Extra! Read ITT contributing editor Jeffrey St. Clair's Seattle diary at Counterpunch.   The First Stone BY JOEL BLEIFUSS No small (genetic) potatoes.   A Lasting Peace? Two views on Northern Ireland. A Bitter Pill BY CARL BROMLEY A New Beginning BY KELLY CANDAELE NEWS & VIEWS Editorial BY CRAIG AARON The kids are all right. A Terry Laban Cartoon Land Sharks BY KARI LYDERSEN The Honduran government is selling off indigenous lands. Wild Wild West BY GEOFF SCHUMACHER Citizens demand more protected wilderness. Hunting for Justice BY JEFF SHAW American Indian treaty rights are under attack. Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE Profile BY JIM VEVERKA Dr. Anthony Kirkpatrick: Witness to a crime. CULTURE Teacher's Pet Project BY J.C. SHARLET BOOKS: Esme needs educating. Teen Spirit BY ROGER GATHMAN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. Past and Present BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE FILM: Snow Falling on Cedars. [Expletive Happens] BY THURSTON DOMINA		Making History By David Bacon Credit: John G. Mablango/AFP Seattle Those who marched or stood or sat in the streets of Seattle made history, and they knew it. And like the great marches against the Vietnam War, or the first sit-ins in the South in the late '50s, it wasn't always easy to see just what history was being made, especially for those closest to the events of the time. Tear gas, rubber bullets and police sweeps, the object of incessant media coverage, are the outward signs of impending change--that the guardians of the social order have grown afraid. And there's always a little history in that. Poeina, a young woman sitting in the intersection at the corner of Seventh and Stewart, waiting nervously for the cops to cuff her and take her away in her first arrest, knew the basic achievement she and her friends had already won: "I know we got people to listen, and that we changed their minds." It was a statement of hope, like the chant that rose Nov. 30 from streets filled with thousands of demonstrators as the police moved in: "The whole world is watching!"       TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 1999 Vol. 24, No. 3