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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... PROBLEMS FOR PROTESTERS CLOSER TO HOME 325 THE MOVEMENT'S DEMISE 348 Assessing the Movement part four 13 . WHAT DID THE MOVEMENT ACHIEVE ? 365 14 . LESSONS FOR SOCIAL - MOVEMENT THEORY 378 Appendix : The Distribution and Activities of ...
... PROBLEMS FOR PROTESTERS CLOSER TO HOME 325 THE MOVEMENT'S DEMISE 348 Assessing the Movement part four 13 . WHAT DID THE MOVEMENT ACHIEVE ? 365 14 . LESSONS FOR SOCIAL - MOVEMENT THEORY 378 Appendix : The Distribution and Activities of ...
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... problems that plagued the movement from within and hampered its political effectiveness . And chapter 12 employs the polit- ical process model again , to explain the movement's eventual decline at decade's end . Finally , part 4 steps ...
... problems that plagued the movement from within and hampered its political effectiveness . And chapter 12 employs the polit- ical process model again , to explain the movement's eventual decline at decade's end . Finally , part 4 steps ...
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... problems adequately . Some— such as Anastasio Somoza's , in exploiting earthquake relief funds- simply took advantage of the dismal times for personal gain . Finally , by the end of the 1970s , a deepening world economic recession fur ...
... problems adequately . Some— such as Anastasio Somoza's , in exploiting earthquake relief funds- simply took advantage of the dismal times for personal gain . Finally , by the end of the 1970s , a deepening world economic recession fur ...
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... problems on its hands , the U.S. has tended to ignore Central America ( Wiarda 1984 : 25 ; Best 1987 : 6 ) . This contradiction — regarding Central America as important while simultaneously neglecting it — has been reconciled through ...
... problems on its hands , the U.S. has tended to ignore Central America ( Wiarda 1984 : 25 ; Best 1987 : 6 ) . This contradiction — regarding Central America as important while simultaneously neglecting it — has been reconciled through ...
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... problem . " This meant blockading or invading Cuba — a plan which Haig had formal- ly proposed to the National Security Council in June 1981. The possi- bility of eventual direct U.S. military action in Central America 24 CHAPTER TWO.
... problem . " This meant blockading or invading Cuba — a plan which Haig had formal- ly proposed to the National Security Council in June 1981. The possi- bility of eventual direct U.S. military action in Central America 24 CHAPTER TWO.
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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