Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace MovementA comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns—Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance—this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism. |
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... President Reagan's Central American Policy 96 North American Protestant and Catholic Missionaries to Central America : 1959-1985 142 Acknowledgments One of the gratifying rewards of completing a book X TABLES AND FIGURES.
... President Reagan's Central American Policy 96 North American Protestant and Catholic Missionaries to Central America : 1959-1985 142 Acknowledgments One of the gratifying rewards of completing a book X TABLES AND FIGURES.
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... President Rea- gan's ambassador to the United Nations — in 1981 ( Newsweek 1981 ) . That was a curious assertion . No previous U.S. policy maker had ever voiced such a claim . Indeed , in 1981 , the majority of Americans knew or cared ...
... President Rea- gan's ambassador to the United Nations — in 1981 ( Newsweek 1981 ) . That was a curious assertion . No previous U.S. policy maker had ever voiced such a claim . Indeed , in 1981 , the majority of Americans knew or cared ...
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... President Reagan's keen interest in Central America can only be comprehended against the backdrop of the real and perceived erosion of that U.S. hegemony not only in Central America , but around the world . The 1970s were a troublesome ...
... President Reagan's keen interest in Central America can only be comprehended against the backdrop of the real and perceived erosion of that U.S. hegemony not only in Central America , but around the world . The 1970s were a troublesome ...
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... President Carter . Next , the regime in El Salvador seemed poised to fall into the hands of the FMLN socialists . Once again , in many eyes Carter seemed to be assisting the rebels by restricting aid to the embattled Salvadoran regime ...
... President Carter . Next , the regime in El Salvador seemed poised to fall into the hands of the FMLN socialists . Once again , in many eyes Carter seemed to be assisting the rebels by restricting aid to the embattled Salvadoran regime ...
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... President Kennedy for not saving Cuba when he had the chance : ' We have seen an Amer- ican President walk all the way to the barricade in the Cuban Missile Crisis and lack the will to take the final step to make it successful . ' Pre ...
... President Kennedy for not saving Cuba when he had the chance : ' We have seen an Amer- ican President walk all the way to the barricade in the Cuban Missile Crisis and lack the will to take the final step to make it successful . ' Pre ...
Contents
part two The Movement Emerges | 57 |
Illustrations follow page 208 | 209 |
part three Maintaining the Struggle | 209 |
part four Assessing the Movement | 363 |
The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations | 387 |
Notes | 393 |
Bibliography | 419 |
Index | 453 |
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