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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... later — as those natives died from disease and famine— imported slaves from Africa ( Stein and Stein 1970 ) . Exploiting this opportunity , the colonizers forcibly seized the best tracts of land , forming them into large estates ...
... later — as those natives died from disease and famine— imported slaves from Africa ( Stein and Stein 1970 ) . Exploiting this opportunity , the colonizers forcibly seized the best tracts of land , forming them into large estates ...
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... resignation among natives , and later mestizo peasants , who were aware of their exploitation , but equally aware of their inability to escape it . With time , hacienda owners developed new export crops . 8 CHAPTER ONE.
... resignation among natives , and later mestizo peasants , who were aware of their exploitation , but equally aware of their inability to escape it . With time , hacienda owners developed new export crops . 8 CHAPTER ONE.
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... later years of the 1970s , international market prices paid for sugar , coffee , bananas , and other export products began fluctuating wildly , in an overall downward direction , creating further havoc for these economies ( Booth 1985 ) ...
... later years of the 1970s , international market prices paid for sugar , coffee , bananas , and other export products began fluctuating wildly , in an overall downward direction , creating further havoc for these economies ( Booth 1985 ) ...
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... later , President Reagan himself declared ( 1983 ) : " The national security of all of the Americas is at stake in Central America . If we cannot defend ourselves there . . . the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy ...
... later , President Reagan himself declared ( 1983 ) : " The national security of all of the Americas is at stake in Central America . If we cannot defend ourselves there . . . the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy ...
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... Later , fifty- two Americans were held hostage for 444 days by seemingly crazed revolutionaries in Iran who had easily toppled a long - standing U.S.- backed ally . The Ayatollah's disciples chanted denunciations of the " Great Satan ...
... Later , fifty- two Americans were held hostage for 444 days by seemingly crazed revolutionaries in Iran who had easily toppled a long - standing U.S.- backed ally . The Ayatollah's disciples chanted denunciations of the " Great Satan ...
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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