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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... Resistance activists , for example , limits itself to participants in the Boston , Massachusetts , area . Although these works offer many important insights , attempts to generalize their findings to the movement as a whole are quite ...
... Resistance activists , for example , limits itself to participants in the Boston , Massachusetts , area . Although these works offer many important insights , attempts to generalize their findings to the movement as a whole are quite ...
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... resistance merely offered the landowners a rationale for con- tinuing their repression of the native population . Protests were crushed and punished by political - military forces that backed the landowners . Eventually , this created ...
... resistance merely offered the landowners a rationale for con- tinuing their repression of the native population . Protests were crushed and punished by political - military forces that backed the landowners . Eventually , this created ...
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... resistance and violence , if necessary , from elites . This pattern continued into the twentieth century . For example , in El Salvador in 1932 , hungry peas- ants in the country's western highlands , led by the socialist Agustin ...
... resistance and violence , if necessary , from elites . This pattern continued into the twentieth century . For example , in El Salvador in 1932 , hungry peas- ants in the country's western highlands , led by the socialist Agustin ...
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... resistance . . spread into rural areas as small guerrilla organizations formed with a broad range of political and ideological orientations . Gradually , what had seemed only isolated acts of terrorism became recognized as a full- scale ...
... resistance . . spread into rural areas as small guerrilla organizations formed with a broad range of political and ideological orientations . Gradually , what had seemed only isolated acts of terrorism became recognized as a full- scale ...
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... resistance to the administra- tion's Central American policy was strong and widespread . In 1982 an National Security Council paper on Central America noted , " We con- tinue to have serious difficulties with U.S. public and ...
... resistance to the administra- tion's Central American policy was strong and widespread . In 1982 an National Security Council paper on Central America noted , " We con- tinue to have serious difficulties with U.S. public and ...
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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