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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... actually ended up absorbing much of the faltering anti - nuclear movement . Does not such a major social movement deserve to be accounted for and analyzed ? A third reason why scholarly inattention to the Central America peace movement ...
... actually ended up absorbing much of the faltering anti - nuclear movement . Does not such a major social movement deserve to be accounted for and analyzed ? A third reason why scholarly inattention to the Central America peace movement ...
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... actually initiated it ? And why and how did they do so ? What kinds of people then joined the Central America peace move- ment ? And how and why were they mobilized into activism ? What strategies and tactics did the movement employ to ...
... actually initiated it ? And why and how did they do so ? What kinds of people then joined the Central America peace move- ment ? And how and why were they mobilized into activism ? What strategies and tactics did the movement employ to ...
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... actually made the movement happen on a daily basis . It explores the emergence of a movement , but also the ongoing maintenance , transformation , and decline of that movement over time . This study draws on quantified data from two ...
... actually made the movement happen on a daily basis . It explores the emergence of a movement , but also the ongoing maintenance , transformation , and decline of that movement over time . This study draws on quantified data from two ...
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... actually outlawed remaining communal lands , granting land titles to anyone who culti- vated export crops on a previously communal piece of property ( Brockett 1990 : 25 ) . Land seizures were also motivated by the demand for cheap ...
... actually outlawed remaining communal lands , granting land titles to anyone who culti- vated export crops on a previously communal piece of property ( Brockett 1990 : 25 ) . Land seizures were also motivated by the demand for cheap ...
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... actually deteriorated , even as elites prof- ited from rapidly growing national economies linked to an expanding world economy.2 On the other hand , new organizational and political opportunities for grassroots protest and rebellion ...
... actually deteriorated , even as elites prof- ited from rapidly growing national economies linked to an expanding world economy.2 On the other hand , new organizational and political opportunities for grassroots protest and rebellion ...
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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