Wells / Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection
Finding aid prepared by Sara Chetney, MA
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
800 North Dartmouth Ave
Claremont, CA 91711
Email: spcoll@cuc.claremont.edu
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Title: Wells / Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection
Dates: 1958-1992 and undated
Collection number: H.Mss.1084
Creator:
Nicaragua Task Force
Extent:
5 Linear Feet
(4 records boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 shoe boxes)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont, CA 91711
Abstract: The Wells / Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection represents the grass-roots organizational, operational and public
relations efforts of a network of political action groups founded in the late 1970s by former California State University,
Fullerton professor of history and art Carol Wells and her husband, Theodore [Ted] Hajjar. Beginning in 1979 and continuing
throughout the eighties and early nineties, Wells and Hajjar founded and promoted political action groups such as the Nicaragua
Task Force, Solidarity Feminist Network, the US Committee in Solidary with the People of El Salvador, the New American Movement,
and many others.
The network of organizations included in this collection campaigned for non-interventionist policies including the US withdrawal
of troops in Central America and an end to US financial and military aid in the region. The group worked against US partisan
policies in Central America between 1979 and 1992, though the bulk of the organizational records herein cover the period of
1979-1989. The collection is comprised of three series’ which contain administrative and operational records for organizations
and movements, periodicals and pamphlets for not only these organizations but others which they worked and/or co-existed with,
and audiovisual cassette tapes featuring news, interviews and documentaries taken from both US and Nicaraguan television broadcasts
primarily between 1981-1990.
Physical Location: Please consult repository.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English and Spanish.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research. No VHS player is available for viewing in the Reading Room. Content of tapes may be digitized
upon request.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wells / Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection (H.Mss.1084). Special Collections, Honnold
Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Provenance / Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carol A. Wells and Theodore Hajjar, 2016.
Accruals
Additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by the Archival Studies 310 course (Fall 2016) of Claremont Graduate University as the culminating
practicum and was processed at the folder level. Most materials within folders were placed in alphabetical order. All records
have been placed in new folders and Boxes appropriate to the materials. During processing, staples were removed where necessary,
items laid in were noted, and materials were organized into series. Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title
and date order, whenever available. Undated materials are placed at the rear of the folder.
Biographical / Historical
Carol Wells is an activist, art historian, curator, lecturer, and writer. Wells was born on February 12, 1946, in the town
of Lynn, Michigan . At age 11, her family moved to California, settling in the Los Angeles area. While attending Dorsey High
School from 1959 to 1963, Wells began working in support of the civil rights movement, writing articles for her school’s newspaper
against the adverse impact of white flight in urban areas and participating in voter registration efforts. When attending
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a freshman, she engaged in her first sit-in protesting de-facto segregation
in Los Angeles public schools. Wells would eventually graduate from UCLA with a BA in History and an MA in Art History . During
her time at UCLA, Wells also became increasingly active in the anti-war movement mobilizing against US involvement in Vietnam,
attending numerous teach-ins and participating in various demonstrations. While participating in a lawful anti-war demonstration
against President Lyndon B. Johnson in Century City, she witnessed police physically assault peaceful protestors. For Wells,
witnessing these events in Century City marked a “turning point” in her life, and confirmed her ongoing commitment to social
justice activism . It was while continuing to engage in protests and other actions against the Vietnam War that Wells met
Theodore Hajjar.
Theodore Hajjar is a retired educator and activist who was born in Manhattan, New York on August 10, 1942 . Hajjar did not
become politically active until later in his college years. Upon graduation from Massapequa High School in 1960, Hajjar pursued
a BA in Sociology from Stony Brook University in 1964, and began graduate work at University of California, Berkeley in that
same year. Hajjar’s entry into Berkeley coincided with the Free Speech Movement, a sizeable protest that related to student
life on campus, the civil rights movement, and anti-war activism protesting US involvement in Vietnam . Hajjar would remain
active in anti-war work, but would leave Berkeley in 1966 to pursue his MA in Sociology at the University of California, Santa
Barbara (UCSB). Shortly after receiving his MA, Hajjar began teaching in the Department of Sociology at California State University
Northridge (CSUN) while continuing to pursue coursework at UCSB. Hajjar would work at CSUN from approximately 1968 to1975,
beginning as an adjunct professor but eventually becoming full-time faculty . Hajjar would finish out his teaching career
working at an experimental high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Wells and Hajjar met while Hajjar was still
teaching at CSUN and Wells was a student at UCLA. Together, they attended a massive anti-war protest against the Vietnam War
in San Francisco, California in 1969 . They were married shortly thereafter on July 21, 1974 .
Following US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, Wells and Hajjar remained politically active and began to focus upon political
developments in Central America, paying special attention to events unfolding in Nicaragua. They joined the New American Movement
(NAM) in 1978 . Wells continued to engage in activism around Nicaragua as part of Nicaragua Solidarity (NICASO) after the
successful Sandinista revolution in 1979 and until NICASO disbanded in 1980 . Hajjar, while not involved directly in NICASO,
maintained an interest in events in Nicaragua, and felt compelled to begin work actively supporting the Sandinista revolution
following Ronald Reagan’s election to the office of President of the United States in 1981. For Hajjar, the broad domestic
support that put Reagan in the White House was proof that Reagan could only effectively be criticized from a foreign policy
perspective. He also believed that the Sandinista revolution could function as an example of successful, progressive, and
democratic governance . In July of 1981, Wells and Hajjar traveled to Nicaragua with UCLA Art History professor David Kunzle
to collect posters and other artwork associated with the Sandinista revolution. They would return to Nicaragua in 1983 and
1984 . Both Wells and Hajjar grew more committed to work opposing US intervention in Central America, and especially in Nicaragua,
as a result of their initial experiences in the country.
Wells and Hajjar would eventually leave the NAM and establish the Nicaragua Task Force (NTF). Hajjar left the NAM shortly
after returning from Nicaragua in 1981. Wells would remain a member of the NAM up to and after an internal split in approximately
1980 that resulted in part of the organization’s membership merging with the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (D-SOC)
. Some remaining members would go on to formally found Solidarity: A Socialist-Feminist Network (SOLIDARITY) in approximately
1981. Wells was a member of SOLIDARITY until roughly 1989, all the while continuing her work in a leadership position within
the NTF and engaging in continued activism in support of the Sandinista revolution .
The NTF was established in 1982. For administrative reasons, the NTF was originally established as The Nicaragua Task Force
of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador prior to its work as an independent organization . The Committee
in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) is an activist organization founded in 1980 that focuses on political
events in El Salvador and works in opposition to US political, economic, and military intervention in the country . It maintains
close ties with both the national liberationist Frente Democratico Revolucionario (FDR) and the Frente Farabundo Marti para
la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) . While Wells and Hajjar remained involved in work on El Salvador and continued to collaborate
with CISPES, the NTF became a distinct organization shortly after its founding so that the NTF could more fully develop its
work around Nicaragua without diverting time and other resources from the work of CISPES members focusing on developments
in El Salvador .
From its founding in 1982 until it ceased to operate in 1990, the NTF engaged in a variety of actions in support of the Sandinista
revolution and against US political, military, and economic intervention in Nicaragua under Reagan. Along with developing
ties to the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN), through its work in support of the Sandinista revolution and
its involvement with other activists and domestic organizations, the NTF also developed relationships with the Nicaraguan
Asociacion de Mujeres Nicaraguenses Luisa Amanda Espinoza (AMNLAE) and the Asociacion de Trabajodores del Campo (ATC) . Much
of the NTF’s work was intended to educate the general public about the state of affairs in Nicaragua and to counter the prevailing
narrative of the Reagan Administration. These actions included, but were not limited to, participation in demonstrations and
other protest actions, participation in local and national conferences, building broad-based Nicaraguan solidarity coalitions
with religious, human rights, and other organizations, fundraising through the sale of buttons, shirts, and other merchandise,
providing material and other aid to the Nicaraguan people, hosting speakers like FSLN leader Daniel Ortega and other Nicaraguan
political figures, providing temporary asylum for refugees, and work in multiple campaigns to call attention to the adverse
impact of US intervention in Nicaragua . Following Ortega’s statement that the FSLN had won a “strategic victory” over the
Contras in 1989, and the FSLN’s defeat in the Nicaraguan general election of the following year, the NTF ceased to operate
in 1990 .
Currently, Carol Wells is executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, which she founded in 1989
. Theodore Hajjar retired from teaching at Southwest Middle College High School, where he taught History and Civics, in 2008
. Both Wells and Hajjar remain politically active.
Sources:
Wells, Carol A. In discussion with the author. November 2016.
Futch, David. “85,000 of the World’s Angriest Political Posters are Sitting in Culver City.” LA Weekly. March 12, 2015. http://www.laweekly.com/arts/85-000-of-the-worlds-angriest-political-posters-are-sitting-in-culver-city-5426721.
Pool, Bob. “Protest Posters Find Asylum with Activist.” Los Angeles Times. June 5, 2001. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/05/local/me-6581.
Hajjar, Theodore. In discussion with the author. December 2016.
Wells, Carol and Ted Hajjar. “Political Graphics.” Works and Days. 28, no. 55/56 (2010): 296.
Aronowitz, Stanley. “The New American Movement and Why it Failed.” Works and Days. 28, no. 55/56 (2010): 25.
CISPES. “Who We Are.” CISPES: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. Nov. 21, 2016. http://cispes.org/about.
Regional Surveys of the World. South America, Central America, and the Caribbean 2002. New York: Routledge, 2010.
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.
The collection also includes extensive propaganda materials in both print and media formats. These include pamphlets and
periodicals, complete newspapers and indiviudal newspaper clippings, flyers and brochures as well as Video Home System [VHS]
and Betamax [Beta] cassette tapes featuring documentaries, news broadcasts, interviews from both U.S. and Nicaraguan television
broadcasts and in both English and Spanish.
Separated Materials
The following monograph items can be found in the Claremont Colleges Library online catalog using the keyword search term
“Wells/Hajjar Central American Solidarity Collection”:
Organization and Arrangement
The collection has been organized into the following series:
Series 1: Organizations and Movements, 1979-1989 and undated, 2 boxes
Series 2: Pamphlets and Periodicals, 1977-1992 and undated, 3 boxes
Series 3: Audiovisual Materials, 1958 and 1981-1990, 3 boxes
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog.
Subject Terms
Central America--Foreign relations
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Political refugees -- Central America
Women -- Organizations
Genre and Form of Materials
Periodicals
Pamphlets
Video recordings
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 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 17
Latin American Perspectives, Vol 7
1980
Box 3, Folder 18
Latin American Perspectives, Vol 8
1981
Box 3, Folder 20
Ma - Mi
1977-1984, undated
Box 4, Folder 1
Muchacho de Niquinohomo, El
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 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 19
Operaciones Sicologicas en Guerre de Guerrillas, selections
Box 4, Folder 20
Q - Se
1980 - 1982, undated
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
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
Box 6, Folder 2
Americas in Transition, 30 mins, documentary
Box 6, Folder 3
A: V. Aniversario de la Revolucion. P.S., B: Sandino Santo y Sena
Box 6, Folder 4
Celebrating the 7th, produced and directed by Gary Weinberg, a Media Action Group production, length 27:30
1986
Box 6, Folder 5
Central America in Revolt
1982
Box 6, Folder 6
Charlie Clements, Witness to War, John Hoaglund
1986 April 1
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
Box 6, Folder 8
Frontline, Crisis in Central America, Part III, Revolution in Nicaragua
Box 6, Folder 9
Frontline, Grenada Invasion Feb '88, PT I, Africa History Series
Box 6, Folder 10
Frontline A) Israel and Central America - May 1989, B) Arab and Jew, David K. Shipler, May 1989
1985 May
Box 7, Folder 2
Inside Story Nicaragua, Who What Why in Central America NBC
1983 October 30
Box 7, Folder 3
"La Revoluta" English without subtitles, Christina Knorr, Guy Barrier
Box 7, Folder 4
"La Revoluta" Espanol, sin sobretitulos, 110 min NTSC, C. Knorr/G. Barrier, Roschibach Str. PO 37 Zurich
Box 7, Folder 6
McNeil-Lehrer, Daniel Ortega and Alejandro Bendna
1990 February 28
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
Box 7, Folder 8
NicaCoverage 1989, 1. Ch. 34 23 July 1989, 2. March 30, 1990 Ortega's Speech Following Election Defeat
1989-1990
Box 7, Folder 9
Nicaragua: A Dangerous Example
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
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
Box 8, Folder 3
Project Nicaragua 52:00 Copy: VHS 2
Box 8, Folder 4
Red Dawn- 1958-2 hrs
1958
Box 8, Folder 5
Second Revolution; Women In Nicaragua **Un Surco Una Trinchera****Cruzada De Alfabetizacion*Salud**Vivienda Y Guarda Fronteras
Box 8, Folder 6
Sistema Sandinista- Masada, Jeronimo 56 min.
Box 8, Folder 7
60 Minutes- 1983 Nat'l Council of Churches, 40 minutes of tape
1983
Box 8, Folder 8
U. S. Role in Latin America PBS May 23, 1982
1982 May 23
Box 8, Folder 9
Contra Pursuit
Note
A trival pursuit parody game