> Religion sucks! Take your "WWJD" sticker and shove it up your ass!
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> Chuck0
Heh, aargh, Chuck. Awfully effective outreach strategy.
How many churches did the anarchists burn down in Spain, driving many peasants and workers into the Francoist bloc?
In the late 70's at the mass march in San Salvador for Archbishop Romero's funeral, the Salvadorean Army fired into the crowd. Where did many run to sanctuary? To the cathedral, the one I assume he was assainated in. Saw this in a film, very sympathetic (well more than sympatico, other scenes were of clandestine mass meetings of FDR-FMLN leaders), funded by the World Coumcil of Churches, in a class taught by rad left Jesuit Blase Bonpane.
Churches were a backbone of anti-Contra aid/solidarity work in the 80's and the Sanctuary movement was overwhelmingly drawn from the historically pacifist/leftish denominations. You know this.
Cry of the People:The struggle for human rights in Latin America and the Catholic Church in conflict with US policy: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder, and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America. by Penny Lernoux.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13034.ctl Smith, Christian Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement. xx, 464 p., 12 halftones, 1 map, 21 tables. 1996
Cloth $60.00tx 0-226-76335-8 Spring 1996 Paper $22.00tx 0-226-76336-6 Spring 1996
A 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.
Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1: The Sources of Central American Unrest 2: United States Intervention 3: Low-Intensity Warfare 4: Launching the Peace Movement 5: Grasping the Big Picture 6: The Social Structure of Moral Outrage 7: The Individual Activists 8: Negotiating Strategies and Collective Identity 9: Fighting Battles of Public Discourse 10: Facing Harassment and Repression 11: Problems for Protesters Closer to Home 12: The Movement's Demise 13: What Did the Movement Achieve? 14: Lessons for Social-Movement Theory Appendix: The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations Notes Bibliography Index
-- Michael D