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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... : The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations Notes 393 Bibliography 419 Index 453 387 Illustrations follow page 208 . Tables and Figures tables 1.1 1.2 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 viii CONTENTS.
... : The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations Notes 393 Bibliography 419 Index 453 387 Illustrations follow page 208 . Tables and Figures tables 1.1 1.2 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 viii CONTENTS.
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... Organizational vs. Impersonal Sources of Activists ' Introduction to Sanctuary and WFP ( % ) 181 Relational Links to Central ... Organizations 389 A.2 Most and Least Organized States Relative to State Population. List of Tables and Figures.
... Organizational vs. Impersonal Sources of Activists ' Introduction to Sanctuary and WFP ( % ) 181 Relational Links to Central ... Organizations 389 A.2 Most and Least Organized States Relative to State Population. List of Tables and Figures.
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... organizations represented in the entire movement . Hence , no work has been published to date that attempts to analyze the movement broadly by examining together a variety of pri- mary movement organizations at a national , movement ...
... organizations represented in the entire movement . Hence , no work has been published to date that attempts to analyze the movement broadly by examining together a variety of pri- mary movement organizations at a national , movement ...
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... organizations ( Smith 1991 ; McAdam 1982 ) . In fact , Cen- tral America's poor in the 1960s and ' 70s did experience both an expansion of political opportunities for rebellion and an increase in the strength of organizations that would ...
... organizations ( Smith 1991 ; McAdam 1982 ) . In fact , Cen- tral America's poor in the 1960s and ' 70s did experience both an expansion of political opportunities for rebellion and an increase in the strength of organizations that would ...
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... organizations — such as labor unions , political parties , student groups , peasant federations , base Christian communities , worker cooperatives , and guerrilla groups — were being founded that helped to mobilize widespread rebellion ...
... organizations — such as labor unions , political parties , student groups , peasant federations , base Christian communities , worker cooperatives , and guerrilla groups — were being founded that helped to mobilize widespread rebellion ...
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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