Under the thwup, thwup, thwup of the news choppers, two groups with the same objective stared each other down late Wednesday afternoon. On the Southeast corner of Sixth and Race Streets, near Center City in Philly, the satellite trucks and the newsies were scuffing the ground and waiting for a replay of the previous day's events, when 300 protesters were arrested in ways that made for lovely footage. On the Northeast corner, a little over 200 protesters milled, shot videos of each other and talked on cell phones about how to penetrate and smash the corporate culture that had overtaken the country. They, too, wanted somebody to do something besides bang on buckets and join in desultory chants. Small problem. Among the 300 arrested the previous day were the knuckleheads, leaders, visionaries and jesters who were most likely to make a ruckus. And all of those people were still in jail. ''We know what it's about,'' says Mike Shecka from Gaithersburg, Md. ''The corporate-owned media won't turn on their cameras unless we do something stupid. But it isn't going to happen today. There's a lot of civil obedience going on.''
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