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The article takes a look at the "Black Lives Matter" online movement and its impact on the U.S. racial-justice movement. Topics covered include the racial justice movement's call for an end to the disproportionate killing of black people by law-enforcement officials and vigilantes, the values of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the emergence of organizations such as BYP 100 which operates from a young black queer feminist perspective.

The article discusses Hurricane Katrina and why the way individuals remember the storm is essential for preparing for future disasters. A brief overview of the damage to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina is presented, including the social impact on displaced African-Americans. Topics include the role of the media in the portrayal of conditions in New Orleans as an out-of-control place filled with violent criminal behavior by young, black males, the truth about the social breakdown in New Orleans, and a federal court case involving Roland Bourgeois Jr. which was part of an organized militia that harassed African-Americans. Also discussed is how telling the truth during a disaster is vital to a community's survival.

The article describes the shooting of a black man, Donnell Herrington, in the white enclave The Point, in New Orleans, Louisiana, three days after Hurricane Katrina hit the city. The author details how the residents of The Point barricaded off their neighborhood and stockpiled guns after the hurricane hit, believing they would be crime victims. The article tells how residents shot at blacks like Herrington with little repercussions.

The article discusses vigilante Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) in the United States, and his role in illegal immigration prevention. MCDC followers are convinced they must form citizen border patrols to defend the U.S. from immigrants. Migrant hunters personally deliver illegal aliens to border patrols. Simcox's history of entrenchment in the neoconservative Republican establishment of anti-immigration politics is discussed.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. Thoughts on vigilantism in New York City in the early 1980s; Comments on the libel lawsuit filed by Ariel Sharon against Time Inc.

The article focuses on business vigilantism. Last week, the author has presented in detail the notorious Mohawk Valley Formula. It differs from all other vigilante programs in two important ways. First, it is intelligent. In fact, it is brilliant in its cynical and logical brutality. It is based on the experiences in the Remington Rand strikes of last year, from which it deduces a new technique of strike breaking. And second, it shows big business how it can build a vigilante movement of its own. This mitigates the danger of a runaway vigilantism, organized and controlled by crackpots, adventurers, and gangsters.

The average innocently educated American has a certain picture of American vigilantism which, like so many of his stereotyped vagaries, he gets from the so-tailed liberal historians, who know a lot they do not dare to understand. In this view, vigilantism is a peculiar American phenomenon. It began in California in 1851, when outlawry was in wild and bloody flower and when every adventurer could buy a woman for the asking plus a sack of gold. Naturally, the better elements of the community wouldn't stand for it, and so they started a vigilante movement for law and order.

This article focuses on various political, economic and publishing issues related to the U.S. The San Francisco general strike has not only disintegrated. It has dissolved into an orgy of red-hunting. Vigilantes perpetrate raids on the headquarters of "leftist" labor organizations. Police follow, mopping up the victims instead of arresting the raiders. The business community indulges itself in the emotional orgy of an anti-Communist crusade. Radical critics of the U.S. capitalist economy and culture have long contended that the apparatus of daily and periodical press constitutes the most strategically placed as well as one of the most reactionary vested interests in the U.S. The metropolis New York is faced with a good many serious problems. Money is scarce, thousands are clamoring for relief, and actual crimes of violence occasionally occur.

The article provides the author's opinion on the management of rescue operations after Hurricane Katrina and refers to a story about a vigilante group of white men who shot at African Americans who were trying to escape the flood. The story, which was dismissed as paranoia, is being investigated by author Rebecca Solnit for her book "A Paradise Built in Hell." Spike Lee's video "When the Levees Broke" is also mentioned.

Presents several short articles which discuss different subjects. Efforts to instill good character in students; Public reaction to the arrest of a suspected vigilante by police in New York City; Diplomatic relations between Canada, the U.S., and France.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. Comments on vigilante terrorism in the U.S.; Thoughts on the usefulness of the no-first-use doctrine in the prevention of nuclear war.

The article presents the opinion of the author on the organization "Daughters of American Revolution" (DAR). The aim of this organization is to keep the U.S. free from sin and sedition by eternal vigilance. It has passed twenty-seven different resolutions to fight communism in churches. D.A. R urged each church member to seriously study the psychology of subversion in order to distinguish between Christianity and Communism. DAR keeps an accurate tabulation of all the work it does, and all the time it consumes. Each state regent records the number of hours her charges work and submits an annual total. Then the national computation is made and published so that the U.S. Congress and all heretics will be duly impressed.

In the court of Circuit Judge Jacob Kanzler, Multnomah County, Oregon a sentence of seven years in the penitentiary was pronounced upon Dirk Dejonge, war veteran and Communist, who was convicted under the Oregon criminal-syndicalism law. Dejonge's actual offense was membership in the Communist Party. Dejonge was one of a number of speakers at a public meeting called by the Communist Party, all of whom were arrested and charged with criminal syndicalism. These arrests, according to the State's own witnesses, were planned in the offices of the Citizens' Emergency League, a local vigilante group organized by the Chamber of Commerce during the strike.

Presents several letters to the editor. Harassment of wage earners by vigilantes; Refusal by workingmen to contribute to the Finnish relief fund; Abolition of compulsory ROTC.

This article reflects on illegal immigration to the United States. In December of 2005, the House passed the Sensenbrenner bill, which the article suggests is one of the most draconian pieces of anti-immigrant legislation in a generation. Vigilante Minutemen, no longer content to patrol the borders looking for illegal immigrants to arrest, have taken to chasing day laborers at pickup sites. Two-thirds of the American population think that illegal immigration is a serious problem.

The author argues that the reopening of the Emmett Till murder case raises questions about the consequences of a dual justice system in the context of Iraq. The Justice Department recently announced its intention to reopen the Emmett Till case. For almost fifty years the case has stood as an unfortunate marker of unfinished business and was credited with having lent the civil rights movement its most powerful moral rallying point. I ponder the ingredients of such prolonged inaction about so egregious a wrong. First, Till's murder was committed against the backdrop of a two-tiered justice system. Second, Jim Crow's shadow justice system permitted unchecked forms of punishment, inventive destructiveness with no accountability. Third, the reality of a parallel, ungoverned secondary system of retribution destroys not only the autonomy of the subordinated community but also the very sovereignty of the state or nation in whose behalf the vigilantism is exacted. These days, lots of people are debating analogies between the brutality at Abu Ghraib or other military prisons and the brutality of the old South. Here's my thought: If analogies are to be made, let us focus on the consequences of any dual justice system, in any historical context, and as a matter of principle rather than degree.

The author argues that it is hypocritical for U.S. officials to treat Nathaniel Heatwole, who committed serious security violations, with leniency, while meting out harsh punishments to Muslim terrorism suspects. He's an intriguing moral bellwether, Nathaniel Heatwole. Heatwole is that nice young college student who tossed his life away by planting bleach, matches, box cutters and fake explosives on planes, resulting in delays and renewed passenger jitters, as law enforcement initiated searches of airplanes throughout, the United States.Heatwole declared himself engaged in a mission of "civil disobedience with the aim of improving public safety for the air-traveling public." It was an interesting claim, if a familiar one in the annals of crime: It may look like I was joyriding in that little red Corvette, but really I was just testing the security. Think of it as a public service. You passed--now unhand me. Heatwole's rationale was hacker justice run amok, or worse, a genuinely risky sort of Russian roulette. (What if the wrong person had found those knives and those matches before the FAA did?) His deed certainly bears no resemblance to civil disobedience within the tradition of passive resistance. It was an act of aggressive vigilantism. I do marvel that he has been handled with such comparative leniency in an era when others, whose alleged misdemeanors did not result in anything like the havoc and disruption of Heatwole's crimes, have disappeared into military brigs, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

Presents several letters to the editor regarding previously published articles. Thoughts on vigilante violence in New York City; Intellectual history of New York.