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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page xiii
... Economic Support Fund Federal Emergency Management Agency Freedom Fighters Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation FSLN Sandinista Front of National Liberation FSO Foreign Service Office IBC ITFCA INS JPF International Business ...
... Economic Support Fund Federal Emergency Management Agency Freedom Fighters Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation FSLN Sandinista Front of National Liberation FSO Foreign Service Office IBC ITFCA INS JPF International Business ...
Page 5
... economic aid to help the Salvadoran government defeat the FMLN . The ensuing civil war lasted the entire decade , with more than 115,000 dead , a million refugees displaced , and no clear victor , until a peace accord was signed in 1991 ...
... economic aid to help the Salvadoran government defeat the FMLN . The ensuing civil war lasted the entire decade , with more than 115,000 dead , a million refugees displaced , and no clear victor , until a peace accord was signed in 1991 ...
Page 7
... economies today ( DeWalt and Bidegaray 1991 ) . The first major crop to succeed was cacao , due to a robust demand for chocolate in Europe . By 1600 , however , the conditions that made cacao profitable had changed , and cacao was ...
... economies today ( DeWalt and Bidegaray 1991 ) . The first major crop to succeed was cacao , due to a robust demand for chocolate in Europe . By 1600 , however , the conditions that made cacao profitable had changed , and cacao was ...
Page 9
... economy remained constant . " A minority of Central American elites profited handsomely — even if erratically — by ... economies had produced staggering amounts of landlessness , hunger , and unemployment for the majority of the ...
... economy remained constant . " A minority of Central American elites profited handsomely — even if erratically — by ... economies had produced staggering amounts of landlessness , hunger , and unemployment for the majority of the ...
Page 11
... organizations that facilitated protest , they " help [ ed ] to break down the domination of traditional patrons by offering alternative sources of economic assistance and protection . They [ were ] THE SOURCES OF CENTRAL AMERICAN UNREST 11.
... organizations that facilitated protest , they " help [ ed ] to break down the domination of traditional patrons by offering alternative sources of economic assistance and protection . They [ were ] THE SOURCES OF CENTRAL AMERICAN UNREST 11.
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
According action administration's America peace activists America peace movement anti-movement arrested began Butigan campaign Casey Catholic Central Amer Central America organizations Central America peace Central American policy church CISPES civil disobedience commitment Congress congressional Contras Corbett covert delegates Dennis Marker economic El Salvador example FMLN forces foreign policy frame Gelbspan grassroots groups Guatemala guerrillas Honduras human rights insurgent consciousness involved Iran-Contra issue Jim Wallis Kornbluh Latin leaders liberation theology major March ment Mike Clark military aid mobilized moral Nicaragua North American Oliver North organizational participation percent Pledge of Resistance political opportunities President Reagan's Press protest Reagan administration refugees regional religious Report repression Salvador Salvadoran Sanctuary activists Sanctuary movement Sandinistas social movements stories strategy struggle tactics thousand tion tral America Tucson U.S. Central U.S. citizens U.S. government U.S. invasion U.S. military U.S. policy Varelli Vietnam Washington White House Witness for Peace York