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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... early on , and to Kris Wood , Jill Pernigotti , and Inez Diaz for helping to code questionnaires . Thanks , too , to Cristy Wilson , Gary Becker , Stephen Smith , and the cataloguing staff at Harvard's Widener Library for help in ...
... early on , and to Kris Wood , Jill Pernigotti , and Inez Diaz for helping to code questionnaires . Thanks , too , to Cristy Wilson , Gary Becker , Stephen Smith , and the cataloguing staff at Harvard's Widener Library for help in ...
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... early 1980s . Chapter 4 provides a brief , descriptive overview of the origins and development of the major activist organi- zations of the movement . In chapters 5 and 6 , I use a political process model of social movements to explain ...
... early 1980s . Chapter 4 provides a brief , descriptive overview of the origins and development of the major activist organi- zations of the movement . In chapters 5 and 6 , I use a political process model of social movements to explain ...
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... early January 1982 an exhausted 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 ...
... early January 1982 an exhausted 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 ...
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... early near genoci- dal enslavement of natives to the crushed Quisteil rebellion of 1761 to Guatemala's bloody counterinsurgency campaign of the 1960s , Cen- tral America has seen almost a half - millennium of endemic military ...
... early near genoci- dal enslavement of natives to the crushed Quisteil rebellion of 1761 to Guatemala's bloody counterinsurgency campaign of the 1960s , Cen- tral America has seen almost a half - millennium of endemic military ...
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... early 1980s grew to 60 percent . Rural unemployment figures stood at 42 percent in Guatemala , 47 percent in El Salvador , and 24 percent in Nicaragua . Malnutrition was rampant , and child malnutri- tion was increasing in most ...
... early 1980s grew to 60 percent . Rural unemployment figures stood at 42 percent in Guatemala , 47 percent in El Salvador , and 24 percent in Nicaragua . Malnutrition was rampant , and child malnutri- tion was increasing in most ...
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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