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Inside the Volcano – a Curriculum on Nicaragua
Inside the Volcano: A Curriculum on Nicaragua Edited by William Bigelow and Jeff Edmundson Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA) P.O. Box 73038 Washington, DC 20056-3038 Network of Educators' Committees on Central America Washington, D.C. About the readings: We are grateful to the Institute for Food and Development Policy for permission to reproduce Imagine You Were A Nicaraguan (from Nicaragua: What Difference Could A Revolution Make?), Nicaragua: Give Change a Chance, The Plastic Kid (from Now We Can Speak) and Gringos and Contras on Our Land (from Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo). Excerpt from Nicaragua: The People Speak © 1985 Bergin and Garvey printed with permission from Greenwood Press. About the artwork: The pictures by Rini Templeton (pages 12, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 38, 57 60, 61, 66, 74, 75, 86, 87 90, 91. 101, 112, and the cover) are used with the cooperation of the Rini Templeton Memorial Fund and can be found in the beautiful, bilingual collection of over 500 illustrations entitled El Arte de Rini Templeton: Donde hay vida y lucha - The Art of Rini Templeton: Where there is life and struggle, 1989, WA: The Real Comet Press. See Appendix A for ordering information. The drawing on page 15 is by Nicaraguan artist Donald Navas. The Nicaraguan Cultural Alliance has the original pen and ink and others for sale. See Appendix A for address. The illustrations on pages 31, 32 and 52 are by Nicaraguan artist Leonicio Saenz. An artist of considerable acclaim in Central America, Saenz is a frequent contributor to Nicar&uac, a monthly publication of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture. -
Contras Shot Ben Linder 'At Point-Blank Range'
Come to Young Socialist convention .. 3 THE Socialists' brief against gov't spy f"IIes 10 Garment workers discuss Nicaragua 15 . A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING· PEOPLE VOL. 51/NO. 18 MAY 15, 1987 75 CENTS 1\farroquin wms• • Contras shot Ben Linder 'amnesty' 'at point-blank range' .work permit Brother urges Father details BY HARRY RING NEW YORK -In an important gain for democratic rights, Hector Marroquin, a volu-nteers U.S.-organized Mexican-born socialist, was granted a six month work authorization card while his to Nicaragua murder application for residence here is processed under the "amnesty" provision of the new BY HARVEY McARTHUR BY HARVEY McARTHUR Immigration Reform and Control Act. MANAGUA, Nicaragua - "We will MANAGUA, Nicaragua - U.S. en For the past decade, the government has tell the truth in every corner of the United gineer Ben Linder was executed by Wash prevented Marroquin from working .and States," declared John Linder, brother of ington's contra terrorists as he lay wounded has been trying to deport him because of Ben Linder, the U.S. engineer murdered from a grenade attack, the Linder family his membership in the Socialist Workers by ciA-trai,ned contras while building a told a news conference here May 5. Party. hydroelectric facility in northern Nicara Pledging to speak out throughout the Marroquin said he was "jubilant" at re- · gua. United States against the U.S.-organized · ceiving the work authorization and de "Everything the U.S. government has contra war, the family reported new details clared it represented a significant gain in told us about Nicaragua is a lie," John Lin of Linder's murder. -
Introduction
Notes Introduction 1 “Beyond Anxiety,” editorial, New York Times, June 13, 1982, E22. 2 For the purposes of simplicity, this book refers to the assemblage of actors engaged in various types of activism against nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and other related threats as the “anti-nuclear movement.” Although I detail individual movements within the larger whole, the existence of substantial cross-pollination among movement organizations and coalitions indicates that a more appropriate term is the singular. On the idea of a “movement of movements,” see Van Gosse, “A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left,” in A Companion to Post-1945 America, ed. Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002), 277–302. 3 On this diversity, see Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson, eds, Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). See also Simon Hall, American Patriotism, American Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). 4 See Fred Halliday, The Making of the Second Cold War (London: Verso, 1983). 5 On beginnings, see Lawrence S. Wittner, Toward Nuclear Abolition: A His- tory of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present (Stan- ford: Stanford University Press, 2003), Chapter 1. On the dwindling of the movement, see “Movement Gap,” editorial, Nation, 4 November 1991, 539–40. 6 The phrase “the challenge of peace” recalls the controversial pastoral letter issued in 1983 by the US National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on War and Peace. Entitled “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Prom- ise and Our Response,” the letter attempted to define the Catholic Church’s opposition to the nuclear arms race. -
The Power of the Press in Nicaraguan Social Change & Nicaraguan
University of Redlands InSPIRe @ Redlands Vahe Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Program, Theses, Dissertations, and Honors Projects Senior Honors Theses 2002 Communication as Development: The oP wer of the Press in Nicaraguan Social Change & Nicaraguan Exchanges, 2002 Emily Freeburg University of Redlands Follow this and additional works at: https://inspire.redlands.edu/proudian Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, Latin American History Commons, and the Social Influence and Political Communication Commons Recommended Citation Freeburg, E. (2002). Communication as Development: The Power of the Press in Nicaraguan Social Change & Nicaraguan Exchanges, 2002 (Undergraduate honors thesis, University of Redlands). Retrieved from https://inspire.redlands.edu/proudian/15 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, and Honors Projects at InSPIRe @ Redlands. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vahe Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Program, Senior Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of InSPIRe @ Redlands. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COMMUNICATION AS DEVELOPMENT: THE POWER OF THE PRESS IN NICARAGUAN SOCIAL CHANGE & NICARAGUAN EXCHANGES, 2002 EMILY FREEBURG Senior Thesis Vahe Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Program May 7,2002 <;~ COMMITTEE: Ed Wingenbach, Cl~ Arturo Arias Leslie Brody Daniel Kiefer, Director of the Proudian Program IntrQduction I've been interested in telling stories all my life. For a long time I made them up. But the more I read and learn, the more I value the way journalism and non-fiction tells a story. -
Fighting for the Promise of Human Rights
FIGHTING FOR THE PROMISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS UW CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear friends, This Annual Report goes to press at a challenging time for those of us who care about human rights. Personally, I’m still struggling to come to terms with the rising signs of intolerance in this country and around the world, and the human rights implications of some policies promoted by the incoming administration. While I’m proud of the work our Center has done to date, I’m also more convinced than ever that now is no time to rest on our laurels. I invite you, with this Annual Report, to take a “deep dive” into different areas of our work, to get to know a few of the terrific students, faculty, and programs that make our Center tick. And then I urge you to please get involved in helping us envision the ways forward for grants, and the publication of new books and articles. 2017. We also rely on the energies and innovation brought by While Centers for Human Rights exist on other our students, like Andre Stephens, a PhD candidate in university campuses, the distinguishing hallmark of Sociology who is the first beneficiary of the Benjamin our approach is our collaboration with organizations Linder Fund. The Linder Fund is the sixth endowment and individuals on the front lines of human rights established in the UWCHR since our founding six years efforts. We seek to bring practitioner insights to ago. That’s a pretty impressive track record, testament campus through partnerships with organizations like to the generosity of the UWCHR community. -
War Tax Refusal & Passports
October/November 2019 37 Years of Resistance War Tax Refusal & Passports Constructing By Lincoln Rice Positive Pillars n 2015, Congress release, offering two pos- for Peace passed a transpor- sible instances that could By Samantha Leuschner Itation bill that in- lead to a revocation: (1) cluded a policy requiring the IRS may recommend n 30 July 2019, I had the great the State Department revocation if the IRS had pleasure of participating in an to deny an individual’s permitted someone to Ointernational webinar to address passport application renew their passport the continued efforts to abolish nu- if the IRS certified the because of their promise clear weapons worldwide. The partici- individual as having a to pay, and they failed to pants included Abolition 2000, the seriously delinquent tax pay, and (2) the IRS may World Future Council, and the Insti- debt (over $52,000 for also ask the State Depart- tute for Economics and Peace. The 2019). The bill even al- ment to revoke a pass- presentations revolved around the au- lows the revocation of port if the taxpayer could dacity for peace and how peace is pos- an individual’s passport use offshore activities or sible through combined international in certain situations. interests to resolve the efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. Since summer 2018, debt, but chooses not to. The Institute for Economics and four people in our net- Additionally, before Peace proclaims two types of peace: work have received contacting the State positive and negative. Negative peace notice from the IRS that Department to revoke a is defined as the “absence of violence the IRS had notified the taxpayer’s passport, the or fear of violence.” The presence of State Department not to Photo by Vinta Supply Co. -
Linders Rip Contra War Before House Committee
Cuban Young Communists discuss challenges • S THE Supreme Court sanctions death penalty . • 7 Sandinistas' statement on women's rights • 8-9 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 51/NO. 19 MAY 22, 1987 • 75 CENTS Linders rip contra war Contragate hearings before House committee close in BY IKE NAIIEM WASHINGTON, D.C. -"I consider the United States government and its effec on Reagan tors-the contras- guilty of this crime," David Linder told a packed congressional hearing here May 13. BY FRED FELDMAN The contras' murder of his son Ben in In the face of testimony by a former top Nicaragua "was not an accidental result of Reagan aide to a congressional committee, U.S. policy," Linder said. "It is the es the president denied May 12 that he en sence of U.S. policy." couraged the Saudi Arabian monarchy to Linder was testifying before the House give $2 million per month to the contras in Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western 1985 - shortly after Congress banned Hemisphere Affairs. The hearing room U.S. efforts to finance or raise funds for was entirely filled, with dozens of people the U.S.-organized bands. waiting outside to get in, as he described Just as implausibly, Reagan continues to . how U.S.-paid mercenaries gunned Ben deny having any notion that his CIA direc Linder down in northern Nicaragua, where tor and National Security Council appoin he had been a volunteer engineer for hydro tees had organized a network of allegedly electric projects. private fundraisers to purchase and ship The contra attack took place April 28. -
Many of You Have Been Asking, So Let Us Start This Newsletter with an Update on Nicaragua As We Understand It
_______________________________________________________________December 2018 Many of you have been asking, so let us start this newsletter with an update on Nicaragua as we understand it. From our perspective and that of those we work with and serve, the unrest is not as restless as it once was1 and yet, the U.S. Embassy has kept the travel alert level high. This has prevented many delegations from traveling here to volunteer and learn. In September, there was violence at one opposition rally and a 16-year old boy was killed. One of the government’s responses to the murder was to require that all marches, demonstrations, etc., get a permit before events and if announced that if organizers did not get permits, then people would be arrested.2 When 20 plus people were arrested for demonstrating without a permit, they were released the next day and so far – at this writing – that teen was the last death that we know of due to the unrest. Bishop Silvio Baez, the auxiliary bishop for Managua, was recorded calling for the “death blockades” [roadblocks] to be put back up, the execution of Pres. Ortega, and being willing to even work with “abortionists, homosexuals, drug traffickers” and anyone else to over- throw the government. Some have said that the recording is a fake, but Baez admit- ted to a reporter that it was a private meeting and “unfortunately someone recorded it.” 500,000 people have signed a petition to the Vatican calling for the Bishop to be removed from his post. There have been people jailed. How many depends on who Photo: www.ensemble-fdg.org you believe. -
US Peace Activists in Nicaragua
Outraged and Organized: U.S. Peace Activists in Nicaragua Elissa Denniston History 486B Professor Nancy Appelbaum May 11th, 2007 On July 19, 1979, Sandinista revolutionaries entered Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and declared victory over the oppressive Somoza dynasty which had ruled the nation for over three decades. The radical shift of power within this Central American nation had a profound effect both on the lives of Nicaraguans and the climate of international politics, particularly within the Cold War context. Throughout the next ten years, social upheaval and economic crisis within Nicaragua led to the influx of thousands of volunteers from both the United States and the rest of the world who worked on development projects and, during the Contra War, projects promoting peace. Those who traveled from the United States to Nicaragua during the 1980s had assorted backgrounds: men, women, clergy, lay persons, recent college graduates, and retirees were among the diverse people who went to Nicaragua to help combat the poverty in the developing nation. These U.S. peace activists often met with Sandinista leaders and worked side by side with them on economic reform programs and social reform programs. The central question which this paper will address is why the peace activists choose the Sandinista cause as their own. What would cause U.S. peace activists to not only go against the official policy of their own government, but risk their own lives working in a war torn nation? It cannot be explained simply by peace activists identifying with the leftist, idealistic goals of the Sandinista regime. -
El Payaso Study Guide
Study Guide Study THE LIGHT HE LIT WILL SHINE FOREVER SHINE WILL LIT HE LIGHT THE Photo© Russell J Young Teatro MILAGRO 2 El Payaso—Study Guide Russell J Young © Photo El Payaso, written by Emilio Rodríguez, follows the “ Whatever you journey of a student as he retraces the steps of Ben Linder, an American engineer and clown. Linder helped provide electricity and potable water to rural can do needs to communities in El Cuá-Bocay, Nicaragua, amidst the be done, so pick chaos of war. In 1981, under the Reagan administration, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) funded and up the tool of co-orchestrated the Nicaraguan war between the Contras and the Sandinista movement. The history your choice and of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua goes back to 1910, when American military forces invaded the get started.” nation and installed Anastasio Somoza as dictator because he aligned with American political and economic expansionist interests. The American —Ben Linder occupation continued on and off until the 1930s. In the years of occupation, the Nicaraguan popular army that resisted Somoza’s regime was defeated and their leader, Augusto César Sandino, was killed. Sandino’s name would live on as an emblem for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional or FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front), as Teatro MILAGRO 3 El Payaso—Study Guide After decades of an oppressive regime, the Nicaraguan people, led by the FSLN, began to establish an actual democracy, with equitable opportunities and institutions that cared for the welfare of all citizens. Their efforts were assailed once more, when under the direction of Ronald Reagan, the CIA partnered with former Nicaraguan military officials, Somoza’s loyalists, to mobilize a right-wing armed opposition against the FSLN. -
WIN Magazine V13 N25 1977
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