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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... forming them into large estates , called haciendas or latifundios . The natives were left to cultivate communal plots of land , as yet unseized , and later small plots called minifundios . Since a domestic market for agricultural ...
... forming them into large estates , called haciendas or latifundios . The natives were left to cultivate communal plots of land , as yet unseized , and later small plots called minifundios . Since a domestic market for agricultural ...
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... formed their own para - military group called the " Civic Guard " to help out . Together they slaughtered thousands . ( Hoeffel 1984 : 100 ) That incident — La Matanza , " The Massacre " —has ever since defined the mentality of ...
... formed their own para - military group called the " Civic Guard " to help out . Together they slaughtered thousands . ( Hoeffel 1984 : 100 ) That incident — La Matanza , " The Massacre " —has ever since defined the mentality of ...
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... formed with a broad range of political and ideological orientations . Gradually , what had seemed only isolated acts of terrorism became recognized as a full- scale revolution " ( McDonald 1985 : 538 ) . • Thus , in most parts of ...
... formed with a broad range of political and ideological orientations . Gradually , what had seemed only isolated acts of terrorism became recognized as a full- scale revolution " ( McDonald 1985 : 538 ) . • Thus , in most parts of ...
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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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