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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... political conflict , sustained itself over a longer period of time , and made a greater political impact than did , for example , the much studied anti - nuclear movement of the same decade . As we will see , the Central America peace ...
... political conflict , sustained itself over a longer period of time , and made a greater political impact than did , for example , the much studied anti - nuclear movement of the same decade . As we will see , the Central America peace ...
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... political struggle . At the same time , like a criminal investigator or research scientist , I also attempt sys ... political activists working for social change and of sociologists , political scientists , and historians who read and ...
... political struggle . At the same time , like a criminal investigator or research scientist , I also attempt sys ... political activists working for social change and of sociologists , political scientists , and historians who read and ...
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... political process model of social movements to explain the macro - social forces and events that created the environment which brought the Central Amer- ica peace movement to birth . Chapter 7 then focuses at the micro - level on the ...
... political process model of social movements to explain the macro - social forces and events that created the environment which brought the Central Amer- ica peace movement to birth . Chapter 7 then focuses at the micro - level on the ...
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... political and military violence in the 1970s and ' 80s . A HISTORICAL LEGACY Civil strife , political struggle , and military clashes have been part of life in Central America for all of its known history . Well before the Spaniards ...
... political and military violence in the 1970s and ' 80s . A HISTORICAL LEGACY Civil strife , political struggle , and military clashes have been part of life in Central America for all of its known history . Well before the Spaniards ...
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... political opportunities and facilitating 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 ...
... political opportunities and facilitating 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 ...
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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