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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... campaign of the 1960s , Cen- tral America has seen almost a half - millennium of endemic military , political , and economic repression and violence . THE ROOTS OF THE 1980S CRISIS Nevertheless — even in view of this legacy of violent ...
... campaign of the 1960s , Cen- tral America has seen almost a half - millennium of endemic military , political , and economic repression and violence . THE ROOTS OF THE 1980S CRISIS Nevertheless — even in view of this legacy of violent ...
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... campaigns , political imprisonment , rural destabilization , paramilitary death - squad assassinations , " disappearances ... campaign since 1965 , which fifty thousand to one hundred thousand individuals , mostly civilians , have died ...
... campaigns , political imprisonment , rural destabilization , paramilitary death - squad assassinations , " disappearances ... campaign since 1965 , which fifty thousand to one hundred thousand individuals , mostly civilians , have died ...
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... campaign coordinated by Havana and Moscow . . . . What is clearly evident to us is that the leftist movement , the rebel activity , its command , control , and direction , now is essentially in the hands of external forces . " And ...
... campaign coordinated by Havana and Moscow . . . . What is clearly evident to us is that the leftist movement , the rebel activity , its command , control , and direction , now is essentially in the hands of external forces . " And ...
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... campaigns , participation in peace negotiations , and congressional accommodation . First , the White House took more proactive steps to try to win pub- lic opinion on Central America . Public resistance to the administra- tion's ...
... campaigns , participation in peace negotiations , and congressional accommodation . First , the White House took more proactive steps to try to win pub- lic opinion on Central America . Public resistance to the administra- tion's ...
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... campaign had utilized skillfully to win the White House- such as strategic press leaks , not - for - attribution " backgrounder " interviews , " strategic polling , " and well - timed , one - liner photo opportunities were employed to ...
... campaign had utilized skillfully to win the White House- such as strategic press leaks , not - for - attribution " backgrounder " interviews , " strategic polling , " and well - timed , one - liner photo opportunities were employed to ...
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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