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Series: 1 Organizations and Movements 1979-1989

Scope and Contents

The Wells/Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection includes the organizational, administrative and working papers for several grass-roots political groups founded by Carol Wells and Ted Hajjar in the late seventies and early eighties. The groups founded and operated by both Wells and Hajjar originally sought to oppose United States (US) interventionist policies in Nicaragua, which remained its primary focus, but was later expanded into other Central American countries.
The two primary organizations comprised herein are the Nicaraguan Task Force (NTF), along with several smaller subsidiaries, and Solidarity: A Social Feminist Network (SOLIDARITY). The NTF is the predominate organization in the collection and the source of the majority of records contained in Series 1. These include but are not limited to bank statements, purchasing and inventory invoices and receipts, telephone and utility statements, a book of folkloric guitar sheet music, and several handwritten meeting notes and planning agendas by Carol Wells. There are also several governmental agency reports, news clippings, magazine articles and copies of speeches—not produced by NTF—but concerning the socio-political and economic conditions and regimes in Central America during the era, as well as information on the US/Reagan Administration’s policies of intervention in this region.
The NTF’s sub-committees represented here include the US Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), the Frente Democractico Revolucionario (FDR), the Frente Marti para la Liberacion National (FMLN), and the New American Movement (NAM). The records herein representing these sub-committees include meeting agendas, minutes, resolutions, steering and planning goals, expansion projects, fundraising, and countless newsletters. The newsletters are both the sub-committees’ own newsletters as well as ones received from a myriad of organizations serving similar Central American grass-roots movements.
SOLIDARITY is a sister organization to NTF but with its central foci on the women’s socialists movements of these same time periods. SOLIDARITY was never specifically designated to a particular Central American country and strove to increase awareness and bi-partisanship network with other socialist movements. The SOLIDARITY records contained in this collection include organizational and structural planning, meeting agendas and minutes, brochures, fundraising flyers, and a large quantity of SOLIDARITY’s own newsletters, resolutions and annual conference reports.
Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title and date order, whenever available. Undated materials are placed at the rear of the folder.
Box 1, Folder 1

Nicaragua Task Force, A.B. Oscar A. Romero relief 1984

Box 1, Folder 2

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, bank statements 1983 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 3

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, button orders 1985

Box 1, Folder 4

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, coffee ordering material 1984 - 1986

Box 1, Folder 5

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, miscellaneous 1983 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 6

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, pending business 1986

Box 1, Folder 7

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, phone and utilities 1986

Box 1, Folder 8

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, postage 1986

Box 1, Folder 9

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, printing receipts 1985 - 1986

Box 1, Folder 10

Nicaragua Task Force, Business administration, t-shirt receipts

Box 1, Folder 11

Nicaragua Task Force, Cancionero Popular Guitara Sandinista 1983

Box 1, Folder 12

Nicaragua Task Force, Carol Wells notebook 1983

Box 1, Folder 13

Nicaragua Task Force, Carol Wells notebook items laid-in 1983

Box 1, Folder 14

Nicaragua Task Force, Committee of Solidarity a Social Feminist Network: Central America (COSCA) 1982 June

Box 1, Folder 15

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity a Social Feminist Network with the People of El Salvador (U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), committee materials 1982 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 16

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, El Salvador materials 1980 - 1983

Box 1, Folder 17

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Executive notes 1983

Box 1, Folder 18

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Flyers, brochures, ephemera 1982 - 1985

Box 1, Folder 19

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Information Packets 1983 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 20

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Legislative material 1983 January - 1984 January

Box 1, Folder 21

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Local chapters 1982

Box 1, Folder 22

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Los Angeles area restructuring 1982 March - December

Box 1, Folder 23

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Los Angeles subregion, committee materials 1982 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 24

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Los Angeles subregion, executive council 1982 January - 1983 May

Box 1, Folder 25

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Los Angeles subregion, executive council 1983 June - 1984 October

Box 1, Folder 26

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Media planning committee 1983

Box 1, Folder 27

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, National U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador coordinators conference 1984

Box 1, Folder 28

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Publicity 1982 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 29

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Regional conference 1982

Box 1, Folder 30

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Regional conference 1983

Box 1, Folder 31

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Regional conference 1984

Box 1, Folder 32

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Reports 1982 - 1983

Box 1, Folder 33

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Resolutions 1980 - 1983

Box 1, Folder 34

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Retreat 1981 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 35

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Retreat

Box 1, Folder 36

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Speakers bureau 1983 - 1984

Box 1, Folder 37

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Teach In 1983

Box 1, Folder 38

Nicaragua Task Force, U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Westside copies 1981 November - 1983 June

Box 1, Folder 39

Frente Democratico Revolutionario (FDR), Frente Marti para la Liberacion National (FMLN), Statements 1982 February - 1984 April

Box 1, Folder 40

Nicaragua Task Force, Kissinger commission report (1 of 2) 1984

Box 1, Folder 41

Nicaragua Task Force, Kissinger commission report (1 of 2) 1984

Box 1, Folder 42

Nicaragua Task Force, New American Movement (NAM), Flyers, publications 1979 - 1980, undated

Box 1, Folder 43

Nicaragua Task Force, NAM, Meeting notes 1979 - 1980, undated

Box 1, Folder 44

Nicaragua Task Force, NAM, Mergers, charters, branches 1980, undated

Box 2, Folder 1

Nicaragua Task Force, National Guard 1986

Box 2, Folder 2

Nicaragua Task Force, National Network in Solidarity a Social Feminist Network with the Nicaraguan People 1983

Box 2, Folder 3

Nicaragua Task Force, Network Let Nicaragua Live! 1986

Box 2, Folder 4

Nicaragua Task Force, New American Movement policies, resolutions 1978-1980, Undated

Box 2, Folder 5

Nicaragua Task Force, Nicaragua Network (1 of 2) 1983, 1986, 1987, undated

Box 2, Folder 6

Nicaragua Task Force, Nicaragua Network (2 of 2) 1985 - 1986

Box 2, Folder 7

Nicaragua Task Force, Nicaraguan Perspectives, account information 1985 - 1986

Box 2, Folder 8

Nicaragua Task Force, Other organizations newsletters 1987 - 1988, undated

Box 2, Folder 9

Nicaragua Task Force, Personal lettered and material 1980. 1984

Box 2, Folder 10

Nicaragua Task Force, Policy alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America

Box 2, Folder 11

Nicaragua Task Force, Political Dissent and the Law seminar packet 1986 March

Box 2, Folder 12

Nicaragua Task Force, Posters and graphics 1982, undated

Box 2, Folder 13

Nicaragua Task Force, Press conference 1983 October

Box 2, Folder 14

Nicaragua Task Force, Publications 1979-1982

Box 2, Folder 15

Nicaragua Task Force, Related organizations (1 of 2) 1985, 1986, 1988

Box 2, Folder 16

Nicaragua Task Force, Related organizations (2 of 2) 1987, 1988, 1989

Box 2, Folder 17

Nicaragua Task Force, Reports (1 of 2) 1985

Box 2, Folder 18

Nicaragua Task Force, Reports (2 of 2) 1984, 1985, 1987

Box 2, Folder 19

Nicaragua Task Force, Subject files, ephemera 1980, undated

Box 2, Folder 20

Nicaragua Task Force, Subject files, journalism 1982-1986

Box 2, Folder 21

Nicaragua Task Force, Subject files, Los Angeles celebration of Nicaragua victory 1979 July

Box 2, Folder 22

Nicaragua Task Force, Subject files, Nicaragua, educational materials

Box 2, Folder 23

Nicaragua Task Force, Subject files, Nicaragua, election materials 1984

Box 2, Folder 24

Nicaragua Task Force, Subject files, tourism, inturismo 1984, undated

Box 2, Folder 25

Nicaragua Task Force, T-shirt orders 1986

Box 2, Folder 26

Nicaragua Task Force, T-shirt orders 1987

Box 2, Folder 27

Nicaragua Task Force, United States out of Cental America 1983

Box 2, Folder 28

Nicaragua Task Force, Voices of Women: Poetry by and About Third World Women

Box 2, Folder 29

Nicaragua Task Force, What the President U.S. Administration Doesn't Want You to Know About Nicaragua (1 of 2)

Box 2, Folder 30

Nicaragua Task Force, What the President U.S. Administration Doesn't Want You to Know About Nicaragua (2 of 2)

Box 2, Folder 31

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network a Social Feminist Network (Solidarity a Social Feminist Network), "August 7 Netowrk" to "Socialist Feminist Network" 1980 January - 1981 November

Box 2, Folder 32

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Communications 1980 September - 1983 August

Box 2, Folder 33

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Discussion Bulletin 1982 - 1983

Box 2, Folder 34

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, East coast Solidarity a Social Feminist Network 1981 December - 1982 January

Box 2, Folder 35

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, First national conference (1 of 2) 1982

Box 2, Folder 36

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, First national conference (2 of 2) 1982

Box 2, Folder 37

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Individual meeting materials 1979 December - 1983 January

Box 2, Folder 38

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Individual meeting materials 1981 February - June

Box 2, Folder 39

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Meeting minutes 1980 September - 1980 October

Box 2, Folder 40

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Music flyers

Box 2, Folder 41

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, National activities 1982-1983

Box 2, Folder 42

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, National conference 1983

Box 2, Folder 43

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Resolutions

Box 2, Folder 44

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Social feminism pamphlet draft 1983 February

Box 2, Folder 45

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Steering committee notes 1982

Box 2, Folder 46

Solidarity a Social Feminist Network, Third west coast conference 1982 February

 

 Series: 2 Pamphlets and Periodicals 1979-1992

Scope and Contents

This series comprises pamphlets and periodicals relating to political and cultural events in Nicaragua from 1979 to 1992. These dates encompass the year the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) seized power and the two years after the FSLN lost Nicaragua’s general election in 1990. Materials include pamphlets, magazines, whole newspapers, newspaper and magazine clippings, and scholarly journals. The series also contains copied selections from the volume Operaciones Sicologicas en Guerre de Guerrillas, a Contra-training manual produced by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Also included are posters and graphics from the Nicaragua Task Force (NTF), the Asociacion de Mujeres Nicaraguenses Luisa Amanda Espinoza (AMNLAE), and other organizations. Along with US media coverage of events in Nicaragua during this period, the series contains a significant amount of local material. This includes multiple formats and editions of Barricada, the FSLN’s primary print organ, a significant number of FSLN pamphlets, publications from the Asociacion de Trabajodores del Campo (ATC), a variety of political and arts-and-culture publications, materials highlighting women’s role in the revolution from AMNLAE, and pamphlets relaying the ideas of FSLN leader Daniel Ortega. The donors Carol Wells and Theodore Hajjar acquired items in this series through their work in the NTF and other organizations, and through their personal travels to Nicaragua in 1981, 1983, and 1985. Items in this series were collected in order to educate and inform NTF and other activists working in support of the Sandinista revolution in the US.
Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder or periodical title and in date order, whenever available. Undated materials are placed at the rear of the folder. Publications are in both English and Spanish.
Box 3, Folder 1

Asociacion de Trabajodores del Campo Materials 1983-1984

Box 3, Folder 2

Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional Materials, A-F 1980-1987

Box 3, Folder 3

Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional Materials, I-N 1980-1982

Box 3, Folder 4

Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional Materials, P 1980-1981

Box 3, Folder 5

Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional Materials, Q - U, misc 1980-1981

Box 3, Folder 6

Daniel Ortega materials 1983-1986

Box 3, Folder 7

19 de Julio-Am 1980-1986

Box 3, Folder 8

Ar - Br 1982-1992

Box 3, Folder 9

Ca - Ce 1982-1992

Box 3, Folder 10

La Chachalaca, Year 1, Vol 2 - 4 1982-1983

Box 3, Folder 11

La Chachalaca, Year 2, Vol 5/6 - 8 1984

Box 3, Folder 12

Ch - Cr 1982, undated

Box 3, Folder 13

Cu - Da 1985, undated

Box 3, Folder 14

E - F 1983, undated

Box 3, Folder 15

G - I 1985, undated

Box 3, Folder 16

J 1977-1980

Box 3, Folder 17

Latin American Perspectives, Vol 7 1980

Box 3, Folder 18

Latin American Perspectives, Vol 8 1981

Box 3, Folder 19

L 1984, undated

Box 3, Folder 20

Ma - Mi 1977-1984, undated

Box 3, Folder 21

Mis - Mo 1984-1988

Box 4, Folder 1

Muchacho de Niquinohomo, El

Box 4, Folder 2

Na - Ne 1984-1985

Box 4, Folder 3

Nic 1980-1985

Box 4, Folder 4

Nicarauc, Vol 1 1980 July - August

Box 4, Folder 5

Nicarauc, Vol 3 1980 December

Box 4, Folder 6

Nicarauc, Vol 4 1981 January - March

Box 4, Folder 7

Nicarauc, Vol 5 1981 April - June

Box 4, Folder 8

Nicarauc, Vol 6 1981 December

Box 4, Folder 9

Nicarauc, Vol 7 1982 June

Box 4, Folder 10

Nicarauc, Vol 8 1982 October

Box 4, Folder 11

Nicarauc, Vol 9 1983

Box 4, Folder 12

Nicarauc, Vol 10 1984 August

Box 4, Folder 13

Nicarauc, Vol 11 1985 May

Box 4, Folder 14

Nicarauc, Vol 12 1986 April

Box 4, Folder 15

Nicarauc, Vol 13 1986 December

Box 4, Folder 16

Nicarauc, Vol 14 1987 December

Box 4, Folder 17

Nosotras 1991 December

Box 4, Folder 18

Nu - P 1981-1988

Box 4, Folder 19

Operaciones Sicologicas en Guerre de Guerrillas, selections

Box 4, Folder 20

Q - Se 1980 - 1982, undated

Box 4, Folder 21

So 1984 -1985

Box 4, Folder 22

Somos, Vol 2 (14) - Vol 5 (28) 1983 - 1986

Box 4, Folder 23

Ta - Tr 1982 - 1984, undated

Box 4, Folder 24

Un - Wo 1982 - 1984, undated

Box 5, Folder 1

Barricada 1978 June 10 - 1984 December 22

Box 5, Folder 2

Barricada 1987 August 27 - 1987 August 28

Box 5, Folder 3

Barricada 1989 June - 1989 July

Box 5, Folder 4

Misc periodicals, C - I 1982 February - 1988 June

Box 5, Folder 5

Misc periodicals, L - T 1982

Box 5, Folder 6

Misc periodicals, clippings 1981 March - 1987 September 19

Box 5, Folder 7

Misc periodicals, clippings 1987 October 26 - 1989 August 19, undated

Box 5, Folder 8

Nicaragua Task Force, Posters and Graphics

Note

Oversized
Box 5, Folder 9

Nicaragua Task Force, Related Organizations, Luisa Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women

 

Series: 3 Audiovisual Material 1958-1990

Scope and Contents

This series consists of audiovisual recordings on VHS and Beta media. It begins with one recording dated 1958 and numerous recordings from 1981-1990. Most of the materials in this series are recordings of U.S. and Nicaraguan television news coverage regarding the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1978-1990. The titles of the recordings include documentaries, interviews, and television news reports of events related to the Nicaraguan Revolution, recorded in both English and Spanish.
This series is arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 6, Folder 1

Amenka a pack of lies, 2 hours

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 2

Americas in Transition, 30 mins, documentary

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 3

A: V. Aniversario de la Revolucion. P.S., B: Sandino Santo y Sena

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 4

Celebrating the 7th, produced and directed by Gary Weinberg, a Media Action Group production, length 27:30 1986

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 5

Central America in Revolt 1982

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 6

Charlie Clements, Witness to War, John Hoaglund 1986 April 1

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 7

Frontline, Crisis in Central America, April 9-12, 1985, PT 1, The Yankee Years, PT II Castro's Challenge 1985 April

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 8

Frontline, Crisis in Central America, Part III, Revolution in Nicaragua

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 9

Frontline, Grenada Invasion Feb '88, PT I, Africa History Series

Note

VHS
Box 6, Folder 10

Frontline A) Israel and Central America - May 1989, B) Arab and Jew, David K. Shipler, May 1989 1985 May

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 1

Hurricane Joan

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 2

Inside Story Nicaragua, Who What Why in Central America NBC 1983 October 30

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 3

"La Revoluta" English without subtitles, Christina Knorr, Guy Barrier

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 4

"La Revoluta" Espanol, sin sobretitulos, 110 min NTSC, C. Knorr/G. Barrier, Roschibach Str. PO 37 Zurich

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 5

Maize Festival 1981

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 6

McNeil-Lehrer, Daniel Ortega and Alejandro Bendna 1990 February 28

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 7

NBC News Contra Funding, 6/12/85 Contra Aid Granted, 11/12/85 NBC Good Morning Contra 1985 June - 1985 November

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 8

NicaCoverage 1989, 1. Ch. 34 23 July 1989, 2. March 30, 1990 Ortega's Speech Following Election Defeat 1989-1990

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 9

Nicaragua: A Dangerous Example

Note

VHS
Box 7, Folder 10

Nicaragua Health Care "The Other Invasion" 1984 Sp. 30 min., Mary Ellsberg, 0000-1526. Nicaragua- Notes from the Front 30 min Sp. 1526-2848, Asylum-Presented Jan. 22, 1986 I hr. Sp. 1984-1986

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 1

No Parasan

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 2

Presente-2-19-83-700 Soldiers and Rebels El Salvador, Presente-2 March ’85 Nicaragua: The Other Invasion (Health Care), Donahue-Ortega 2080-2700

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 3

Project Nicaragua 52:00 Copy: VHS 2

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 4

Red Dawn- 1958-2 hrs 1958

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 5

Second Revolution; Women In Nicaragua **Un Surco Una Trinchera****Cruzada De Alfabetizacion*Salud**Vivienda Y Guarda Fronteras

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 6

Sistema Sandinista- Masada, Jeronimo 56 min.

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 7

60 Minutes- 1983 Nat'l Council of Churches, 40 minutes of tape 1983

Note

VHS
Box 8, Folder 8

U. S. Role in Latin America PBS May 23, 1982 1982 May 23

Note

Beta
Box 8, Folder 9

Contra Pursuit

Note

A trival pursuit parody game