Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement

摘要: An analysis of the US Central America peace movement. This work explains why more than 100,000 citizens marched in streets, illegally housed refugees, travelled to American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives contest Reagan administration's policy sponsoring wars Nicaragua El Salvador. Focusing on movement's three most important national campaigns - Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, Pledge Resistance this demonstrates centrality morality as a motivator, highlights importance opportunities movement outcomes, examines social structuring insurgent consciousness. Based extensive surveys, interviews, research, book aims increase understanding formation individual activist identities, dynamics, religious resources activism.