On September 11, 2001, two young anarchist organizers who had traveled to DC to prepare for the mobilization against the International Monetary Fund found themselves standing before the flaming Pentagon, looking into the burning future that we now inhabit.

Here is their story.

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Though the scheduled IMF protests were cancelled, thousands still gathered in DC on September 30, 2001 for what were effectively the first anti-war protests of the 21st century, opposing the US invasion of Afghanistan when no one else dared criticize the bilateral warmongering of the US government.

This narrative is a time capsule from another era, affording us a glimpse of what we lost when the proponents of the "War on Terror" managed to stifle the anti-capitalist movements of the turn of the century—and thereby offering us some perspective on our present.