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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... Foreign Military Aid to Central America 35 3.2 U.S. Foreign Aid to Central America 36 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Public Opinion on Central America 95 5.5 6.1 New York Times Articles on Central America : 1974-1989 90 Television Network News Stories ...
... Foreign Military Aid to Central America 35 3.2 U.S. Foreign Aid to Central America 36 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Public Opinion on Central America 95 5.5 6.1 New York Times Articles on Central America : 1974-1989 90 Television Network News Stories ...
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... foreign pol- icy driven by stupendous ignorance , arrogance , and malice produced in me recurrent bouts of smoldering and hardly expressible rage , heartache , and depression . Not all knowledge is sweet to acquire . There were times ...
... foreign pol- icy driven by stupendous ignorance , arrogance , and malice produced in me recurrent bouts of smoldering and hardly expressible rage , heartache , and depression . Not all knowledge is sweet to acquire . There were times ...
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... Foreign Service Office IBC ITFCA INS JPF International Business Communications InterReligious Task Force on Central America Immigration and Naturalization Service Jewish Peace Fellowship MLN National Liberation Movement NCC National ...
... Foreign Service Office IBC ITFCA INS JPF International Business Communications InterReligious Task Force on Central America Immigration and Naturalization Service Jewish Peace Fellowship MLN National Liberation Movement NCC National ...
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... foreign affairs of their tribes , kingdoms , and thations as they have seen fit , largely unencumbered by the concerns of the common people over whom they rule . Generations of ordinary women and men — those who pay the taxes , forge ...
... foreign affairs of their tribes , kingdoms , and thations as they have seen fit , largely unencumbered by the concerns of the common people over whom they rule . Generations of ordinary women and men — those who pay the taxes , forge ...
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... foreign policy issue in the United States since the Vietnam War " ( Falcoff 1984 : 361 ) . Should not all the major actors in such a struggle be examined and understood ? Second , the Central America peace movement itself was a crusade ...
... foreign policy issue in the United States since the Vietnam War " ( Falcoff 1984 : 361 ) . Should not all the major actors in such a struggle be examined and understood ? Second , the Central America peace movement itself was a crusade ...
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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