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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... civil disobedience at demonstrations , and hounded their political rep- resentatives to stop the U.S. - sponsored war in Central America — all on the assumption , as the above quotations indicate , that common people can and should ...
... civil disobedience at demonstrations , and hounded their political rep- resentatives to stop the U.S. - sponsored war in Central America — all on the assumption , as the above quotations indicate , that common people can and should ...
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... civil rights movement of the 1950s and ' 60s . According to Reuther ( 1986 : viii ) , " For the first time since the Vietnam war , the United States government is faced with a major chal- lenge to its policies of global control , a ...
... civil rights movement of the 1950s and ' 60s . According to Reuther ( 1986 : viii ) , " For the first time since the Vietnam war , the United States government is faced with a major chal- lenge to its policies of global control , a ...
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... Civil strife , political struggle , and military clashes have been part of life in Central America for all of its known history . Well before the Spaniards came to Central America , the indigenous peoples were familiar with the tensions ...
... Civil strife , political struggle , and military clashes have been part of life in Central America for all of its known history . Well before the Spaniards came to Central America , the indigenous peoples were familiar with the tensions ...
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... civil war , killing 200,000 and displacing one million Guatemalans . 60 percent rural poverty rate . NICARAGUA Ruled by the Somoza family dictatorship since 1936 , civil war erupted in 1978 , and the Sandinista Front of National ...
... civil war , killing 200,000 and displacing one million Guatemalans . 60 percent rural poverty rate . NICARAGUA Ruled by the Somoza family dictatorship since 1936 , civil war erupted in 1978 , and the Sandinista Front of National ...
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... civil wars . The Central American pow- der keg was ignited . POLITICAL INTRANSIGENCE AND REPRESSION Economic misery and frustration alone , however , did not generate Central America's explosive crisis in the 1970s and ' 80s . Equally ...
... civil wars . The Central American pow- der keg was ignited . POLITICAL INTRANSIGENCE AND REPRESSION Economic misery and frustration alone , however , did not generate Central America's explosive crisis in the 1970s and ' 80s . Equally ...
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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