Title A call to conscience : the anti/Contra War campaign / Roger Peace

Published Amherst, MA ; Boston, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages) Series Culture, politics, and the cold war Culture, politics, and the Cold War. Contents U.S.-Nicaragua relations, the Sandinista Revolution, and the Contra War -- An overview of the Contra War debate -- Origins of the anti/contra war campaign -- Expansion of the anti/Contra War campaign, 1983/84 -- Organizational dynamics of a decentralized campaign -- The politics of transnational solidarity -- Meeting the political challenge, 1985/86 -- Sustaining the anti/Contra War campaign, 1987/90 Summary Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as "contras." Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administration's Cold War stereotypes, warned of "another Vietnam," and called on the United States to abide by international norms. A Call to Conscience offers the first comprehensive history of the anti-Contra War campaign and its Nicaragua connections. Roger Peace places this eight-year campaign in the context of previous American interventions in Latin America, the Cold War, and other grassroots oppositional movements. Based on interviews with American and Nicaraguan citizens and leaders, archival records of activist organizations, and official government documents, this book reveals activist motivations, analyzes the organizational dynamics of the anti-Contra War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the campaign in Managua and Washington. Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and networks--religious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor, women's rights--worked together in a decentralized campaign that involved extensive transnational cooperation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Contra Program (Central Intelligence Agency) SUBJECT Contra Program (Central Intelligence Agency) fast Subject Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century Solidarity -- United States -- History -- 20th century Solidarity -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century Americans -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Americans Christianity and politics International relations Peace movements Politics and government Solidarity SUBJECT Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1979-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091741 United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467 Nicaragua -- Relations -- United States United States -- Relations -- Nicaragua Subject Nicaragua United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012007997 ISBN 9781613762042 1613762046

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