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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... hundreds of Witness . for Peace and Sanctuary activists who completed and returned their sur- veys . Thanks , too , to Laura Hoseley , for transcribing written survey text . Stan Gaede , Nina Liou , and Eldon Kenworthy read my entire ...
... hundreds of Witness . for Peace and Sanctuary activists who completed and returned their sur- veys . Thanks , too , to Laura Hoseley , for transcribing written survey text . Stan Gaede , Nina Liou , and Eldon Kenworthy read my entire ...
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... hundred thousand U.S. citizens mobilized to contest the chief foreign policy initiative of the most popular U.S. president in decades . Ordi- nary Americans marched in the streets , illegally housed refugees flee- ing persecution ...
... hundred thousand U.S. citizens mobilized to contest the chief foreign policy initiative of the most popular U.S. president in decades . Ordi- nary Americans marched in the streets , illegally housed refugees flee- ing persecution ...
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... hundred thousand people — three - quarters of Managua's popula- tion — were left homeless ( Bermann 1986 : 253 ) . Guatemala's earth- quake killed twenty - five thousand people , injured seventy thousand , and left more than a million ...
... hundred thousand people — three - quarters of Managua's popula- tion — were left homeless ( Bermann 1986 : 253 ) . Guatemala's earth- quake killed twenty - five thousand people , injured seventy thousand , and left more than a million ...
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... hundreds of thousands of homeless already there ( Jonas 1991 : 95 ) . These shocks together culminated in the late 1970s into a crisis . Unemployment , corruption , homelessness , landlessness , hunger , and frustration were escalating ...
... hundreds of thousands of homeless already there ( Jonas 1991 : 95 ) . These shocks together culminated in the late 1970s into a crisis . Unemployment , corruption , homelessness , landlessness , hunger , and frustration were escalating ...
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... hundred thousand individuals , mostly civilians , have died ( Weaver 1984 : 545 ; Carmack 1988 ) . In 1976 , when U.S. President Jimmy Carter pressed the Guatemalan govern- ment to improve its human rights record , the worst in the ...
... hundred thousand individuals , mostly civilians , have died ( Weaver 1984 : 545 ; Carmack 1988 ) . In 1976 , when U.S. President Jimmy Carter pressed the Guatemalan govern- ment to improve its human rights record , the worst in the ...
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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