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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... killing 200,000 and displacing one million Guatemalans . 60 percent rural poverty rate . NICARAGUA Ruled by the Somoza family dictatorship since 1936 , civil war erupted in 1978 , and the Sandinista Front of National Liberation ( FSLN ) ...
... killing 200,000 and displacing one million Guatemalans . 60 percent rural poverty rate . NICARAGUA Ruled by the Somoza family dictatorship since 1936 , civil war erupted in 1978 , and the Sandinista Front of National Liberation ( FSLN ) ...
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... killed twenty - five thousand people , injured seventy thousand , and left more than a million homeless . Ninety percent of the destroyed homes in the capital were in poor neighborhoods . In subsequent months , fifty thousand people ...
... killed twenty - five thousand people , injured seventy thousand , and left more than a million homeless . Ninety percent of the destroyed homes in the capital were in poor neighborhoods . In subsequent months , fifty thousand people ...
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... killed local landowners and officials . The well - equipped Salvadoran army , sum- moned by the area landowners ... ( Kill the dog and the rabies is gone ) " ( Hoef- fel 1984 : 100 ) . In a 1980 speech to the annual Salvadoran Coffee ...
... killed local landowners and officials . The well - equipped Salvadoran army , sum- moned by the area landowners ... ( Kill the dog and the rabies is gone ) " ( Hoef- fel 1984 : 100 ) . In a 1980 speech to the annual Salvadoran Coffee ...
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... killed between forty to fifty thousand Nicaraguans ( Booth 1985 : 183 ) . In El Salvador , the 1972 election of a ... killing 67 and injuring 250 ( Schulz 1984 : 212 ) . Overall , the scope and scale of the repression in El Salvador was ...
... killed between forty to fifty thousand Nicaraguans ( Booth 1985 : 183 ) . In El Salvador , the 1972 election of a ... killing 67 and injuring 250 ( Schulz 1984 : 212 ) . Overall , the scope and scale of the repression in El Salvador was ...
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... killing a thousand people a month ( Skidmore and Smith 1984 : 313 ) . In the 1980-81 period alone , death - squad forces abducted and killed more than twenty - one thousand civilians ( Fagan 1987 : 78 ) . Overall , many tens of ...
... killing a thousand people a month ( Skidmore and Smith 1984 : 313 ) . In the 1980-81 period alone , death - squad forces abducted and killed more than twenty - one thousand civilians ( Fagan 1987 : 78 ) . Overall , many tens of ...
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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