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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... Experience ( % ) 175 Personal and Organizational vs. Impersonal Sources of Activists ' Introduction to Sanctuary and WFP ( % ) 181 Relational Links to Central American Activism ( % ) 182 Types of Sanctuary Groups , 1987 185 Relationship ...
... Experience ( % ) 175 Personal and Organizational vs. Impersonal Sources of Activists ' Introduction to Sanctuary and WFP ( % ) 181 Relational Links to Central American Activism ( % ) 182 Types of Sanctuary Groups , 1987 185 Relationship ...
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... experiences , thoughts , and feelings regarding U.S. Central American politics . These include Sam Hope , Ken Butigan , Cindy Buhl , Dennis Marker , Gail Phares , Fran Truitt , Bob Bonthius , Mike Clark , Anne Shumway , Betsy Crites ...
... experiences , thoughts , and feelings regarding U.S. Central American politics . These include Sam Hope , Ken Butigan , Cindy Buhl , Dennis Marker , Gail Phares , Fran Truitt , Bob Bonthius , Mike Clark , Anne Shumway , Betsy Crites ...
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... experiences . I had always heard about people far away , but they had never been ' real . ' This hit me like a bomb ... experienced before . I found myself doing things , like being the spokesperson at demonstrations , that I had never ...
... experiences . I had always heard about people far away , but they had never been ' real . ' This hit me like a bomb ... experienced before . I found myself doing things , like being the spokesperson at demonstrations , that I had never ...
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... experience : They go to the farms and other places of work , where they are made to toil from dawn to dusk in the raw cold morning and afternoon , in wind and storm , without other food than the rotten or dried - out tortillas , and ...
... experience : They go to the farms and other places of work , where they are made to toil from dawn to dusk in the raw cold morning and afternoon , in wind and storm , without other food than the rotten or dried - out tortillas , and ...
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... experience both an expansion of political opportunities for rebellion and an increase in the strength of organizations that would facilitate protest . Modernization and development in Central America were accom- panied by the loosening ...
... experience both an expansion of political opportunities for rebellion and an increase in the strength of organizations that would facilitate protest . Modernization and development in Central America were accom- panied by the loosening ...
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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