This issue took shape during the buildup to the Bush administration's preemptive war against Iraq and the worldwide mobilization against it. Its contents appropriately reflect a longer view of U.S. militarism and populist nationalism, the criminalization and repression of domestic dissent, and the movements that have challenged the power arrangements that sustain American structures of inequality. Discussed are the extraordinary changes that have taken place within the repressive state apparatus since September 11, 2001, the cultural expressions of patriotism that inform and justify the rollback of post-Watergate reforms and chilling of civil liberties, as well as the cultural roots of U.S. interventionism in America's history of racism and colonial expansion. Authors look at the labor movement, the Black Freedom Struggle, the Fuerza Unida, the civil rights of the homeless, and the restorative justice and community policing movements. This issue is 270 pages long.