There are two things that always bring me back to the politics and all the fucked up events of that time period. It was the first recent-past generation reaching adulthood that had never known anything other than a government that, for the most part, didn't give a fuck about them on any level.
This fan made video for Roger Waters's "Home." All the events in the little montage bring me back real powerful.
Rage Against the Machine played a show during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in protest of the two-party system, and despite pushes from the City of Los Angeles to force them to play a small venue across the city from the DNC, they were allowed by a judge to play across the street from the event. LAPD security measures included a 12-foot high fence and about 2,000 officers in riot gear. After the performance, numerous attendees provoked police, causing them to declare unlawful assembly, and a riot broke out ending in violence and arrests.
