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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... Salvadoran teenager named José Valdes , assisted by a small group of Tucson churchgoers , crossed the Mexican border into Arizona . Two months earlier , Valdes ' village , located in El Salvador's Morazán province , had been assaulted ...
... Salvadoran teenager named José Valdes , assisted by a small group of Tucson churchgoers , crossed the Mexican border into Arizona . Two months earlier , Valdes ' village , located in El Salvador's Morazán province , had been assaulted ...
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... SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA Pacific Ocean CUBA ...... BAHAMAS JAMAICA Caribb COSTA RICA PANAMA 0 200 400 miles 0 200 ... Salvadoran government defeat the FMLN . The ensuing civil war lasted the entire decade , with more than 115,000 dead ...
... SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA Pacific Ocean CUBA ...... BAHAMAS JAMAICA Caribb COSTA RICA PANAMA 0 200 400 miles 0 200 ... Salvadoran government defeat the FMLN . The ensuing civil war lasted the entire decade , with more than 115,000 dead ...
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... Salvadoran army , sum- moned by the area landowners , quickly suppressed the uprising . Ret- ribution followed , as the army massacred ten to twenty thousand peasants and Indians in the next two weeks , most of whom had not even ...
... Salvadoran army , sum- moned by the area landowners , quickly suppressed the uprising . Ret- ribution followed , as the army massacred ten to twenty thousand peasants and Indians in the next two weeks , most of whom had not even ...
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... Salvador , the 1972 election of a center - left , reformist Christ- ian Democrat , José Napoleón Duarte , was ... Salvador , killing 67 and injuring 250 ( Schulz 1984 : 212 ) . Overall , the scope and scale of the repression in El ...
... Salvador , the 1972 election of a center - left , reformist Christ- ian Democrat , José Napoleón Duarte , was ... Salvador , killing 67 and injuring 250 ( Schulz 1984 : 212 ) . Overall , the scope and scale of the repression in El ...
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... 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 . By the end of the 1970s America's self ...
... 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 . By the end of the 1970s America's self ...
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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