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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... organizational and political opportunities for grassroots protest and rebellion developed . Peasants and laborers thus found themselves possessing , perhaps as never before , the means to challenge the system under which they had suf ...
... organizational and political opportunities for grassroots protest and rebellion developed . Peasants and laborers thus found themselves possessing , perhaps as never before , the means to challenge the system under which they had suf ...
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... Organizational strength for potential rebellion increased through a widespread penetration of peasant and worker communities in the 1960s and ' 70s by outside organizers who brought with them new ide- ologies and organizational skills ...
... Organizational strength for potential rebellion increased through a widespread penetration of peasant and worker communities in the 1960s and ' 70s by outside organizers who brought with them new ide- ologies and organizational skills ...
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... organizational exper- tise but also because they facilitate [ d ] the transformation of attitudes from those of powerlessness . . . to those of solidarity and strength " ( Brockett 1990 : 6-7 ) . Thus , by the 1970s , reformist and ...
... organizational exper- tise but also because they facilitate [ d ] the transformation of attitudes from those of powerlessness . . . to those of solidarity and strength " ( Brockett 1990 : 6-7 ) . Thus , by the 1970s , reformist and ...
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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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