Report Card
Fiefer, William Paul
REPORT CARD William Paul Fiefer Military Meddling INVASION: A Guide to the U.S. Military Presence in Central America by the American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry...
...peace groups...
...Military escalation, particularly in Honduras, exacerbates strife in Central America...
...dismantle U.S.-built bases in Honduras and withdraw American troops from that nation...
...76 pp...
...The debate, most participants agree, is about how to channel the movement's intellectual and cultural diversity toward getting results instead of marginalizing the movement at the periphery of American society...
...Second, movement leaders have not devised a definition of their constituency...
...Countries already suffering from a world recession, plunging prices for export crops, and spiraling costs for imports, have been pushed further into economic chaos by militarized economies," the authors say, "and, in areas of conflict,[by] the destruction of bridges, power lines, and crops...
...To prod governments into doing so, however, requires information, organization, strategies, and tactics—and that is what this book is all about...
...First, movement leaders are divided on whether to make disarmament a narrow single issue or whether such issues as poverty, racism, and sexism should be included with disarmament in an agenda for social change...
...416 pp...
...A thirty-three-page briefing opens the text and initiates newcomers to the nuts and bolts of the international war economy...
...meddling in the region, reached alarming growth during the early 1980s and continues unabated...
...The contributors to this directory, which has been revised from the 1984 edition, argue that $600 billion can be lopped from the global total without disturbing the military balance...
...24 pp...
...Military Presence in Central America by the American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...
...Worldwide military spending will reach an estimated $900 billion during 1986, and the United States will account for almost one-third of that sum...
...Two problems capture most of the attention of this booklet's contributors...
...Whether, in the words of the contributors, an organization works "to change nations and international relations or to change people and interpersonal relations," this book will be a valuable tool for finding whom to talk to or what to read...
...The large core of the book consists of address lists, ordered by zip code, affiliation, and focus, of 5,700 U.S...
...Thirty-five social activists covering a broad political spectrum deliver their opinions on how the peace movement should widen its constituency and achieve its objectives...
...Muste Memorial Institute 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012...
...Who should be recruited...
...Without them, they suggest, we face the prospects of a wider war and the escalation of violence...
...That process, following decades of U.S...
...The Soviet Union spends a comparable amount...
...Road to Peace WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: Tactics and Strategies for the Peace Movement by the A.J...
...A substantial and well-organized bibliography is also included...
...2 each, ten or more $ 1 each...
...Invasion describes and documents the vast web of roads, bases, airstrips, communications links, and training exercises that have made Central America an extension of the U.S...
...With such moves, say the authors, the United States could represent a "force for peace, social justice and development" in the region...
...Who's Who PEACE RESOURCES BOOK: A Comprehensive Guide to Issues, Groups, and Literature by the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA 02122...
...end military training in Guatemala and cease giving loans to Guatemala for military purchases, and begin normalizing diplomatic and commercial ties with Cuba...
...military network...
...Should anti-abortionists, Christian fundamentalists, black separatists, and anarchists be enlisted...
...The money could then be allocated to such basic human needs as food, education, shelter, and medicine...
...We should respect the needs of people for protected space for the expression of shared cultural values," says Charles Knight, one of the contributors, "but we should not delude ourselves that subcultures can readily become the base for majority power...
...To resolve the crisis, the U.S...
...14.95...
...eliminate military aid to El Salvador and press that nation to a negotiated settlement of its civil war...
...foreign policy establishment should, the report says, take the following five steps: cut direct and indirect funding of the contras...
Vol. 50 • March 1986 • No. 3
