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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... Salvador and Nicaragua : 1975-1990 91 Books about Central America Published : 1972-1990 91 Public Opinion against President Reagan's Central American Policy 96 North American Protestant and Catholic Missionaries to Central America ...
... Salvador and Nicaragua : 1975-1990 91 Books about Central America Published : 1972-1990 91 Public Opinion against President Reagan's Central American Policy 96 North American Protestant and Catholic Missionaries to Central America ...
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... Salvador's Morazán province , had been assaulted by one of his government's U.S. - trained army battalions . In that attack , and others like it throughout the province , nearly a thousand peasants had been massacred in one month ...
... Salvador's Morazán province , had been assaulted by one of his government's U.S. - trained army battalions . In that attack , and others like it throughout the province , nearly a thousand peasants had been massacred in one month ...
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... SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA Pacific Ocean CUBA ...... BAHAMAS JAMAICA Caribb COSTA RICA PANAMA 0 200 400 miles 0 200 400 kilometers Fig . 1.1 10'N 25 N Atlantic Ocean HAITI Sea COLOMBIA 20 ° N 15'N EL SALVADOR Central America's smallest ...
... SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA Pacific Ocean CUBA ...... BAHAMAS JAMAICA Caribb COSTA RICA PANAMA 0 200 400 miles 0 200 400 kilometers Fig . 1.1 10'N 25 N Atlantic Ocean HAITI Sea COLOMBIA 20 ° N 15'N EL SALVADOR Central America's smallest ...
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... Salvador , and 24 percent in Nicaragua . Malnutrition was rampant , and child malnutri- tion was increasing in most countries ( Table 1.2 ) . Income , despite over- all national growth , grew more unevenly distributed ( Brockett 1990 ...
... Salvador , and 24 percent in Nicaragua . Malnutrition was rampant , and child malnutri- tion was increasing in most countries ( Table 1.2 ) . Income , despite over- all national growth , grew more unevenly distributed ( Brockett 1990 ...
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... Salvador .220 .080 -64 Guatamala .450 .190 -58 Honduras .520 .420 -19 Nicaragua .630 .440 -30 Source : FAO , Food Security in Latin American and the Caribbean , June , 1984 Table 1.2 . Malnutrition in Central America Country Calorie ...
... Salvador .220 .080 -64 Guatamala .450 .190 -58 Honduras .520 .420 -19 Nicaragua .630 .440 -30 Source : FAO , Food Security in Latin American and the Caribbean , June , 1984 Table 1.2 . Malnutrition in Central America Country Calorie ...
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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