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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... questions about the relationship between reli- gious faith and politics . Perhaps social scientists studying the relationship of faith and politics in the 1980s were too preoccupied with the fanfare surrounding the New Religious Right ...
... questions about the relationship between reli- gious faith and politics . Perhaps social scientists studying the relationship of faith and politics in the 1980s were too preoccupied with the fanfare surrounding the New Religious Right ...
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... questions con- cerning the who , what , why , and hows of the Central America peace movement : What historical events , social forces , and cultural influences shaped the broad sociopolitical environment that generated the move- ment ...
... questions con- cerning the who , what , why , and hows of the Central America peace movement : What historical events , social forces , and cultural influences shaped the broad sociopolitical environment that generated the move- ment ...
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... question : Why did Central America erupt into such disruptive 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 ...
... question : Why did Central America erupt into such disruptive 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 ...
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... question of war or peace to the legislature , and not to the executive department . . . . The strongest passions and most dangerous weak- nesses of the human breast — ambition , avarice , vanity , the honorable or venial love of fame ...
... question of war or peace to the legislature , and not to the executive department . . . . The strongest passions and most dangerous weak- nesses of the human breast — ambition , avarice , vanity , the honorable or venial love of fame ...
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... questions , Secretary Haig exclaimed to journalists , " I wouldn't want anyone here to think that we are not very concerned about , if you will , the [ human rights ] improvements that are necessary in the Salvadoran regime . " The ...
... questions , Secretary Haig exclaimed to journalists , " I wouldn't want anyone here to think that we are not very concerned about , if you will , the [ human rights ] improvements that are necessary in the Salvadoran regime . " The ...
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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