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

URL: http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc/default.html

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.

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

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VHS

Box 6, Folder 4

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

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VHS

Box 6, Folder 5

Central America in Revolt 1982

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VHS

Box 6, Folder 6

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

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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

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VHS

Box 6, Folder 8

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

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VHS

Box 6, Folder 9

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

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VHS

Box 6, Folder 10

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

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 1

Hurricane Joan

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 2

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

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 3

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

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 4

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

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 5

Maize Festival 1981

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 6

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

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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

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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

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VHS

Box 7, Folder 9

Nicaragua: A Dangerous Example

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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

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 1

No Parasan

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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

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 3

Project Nicaragua 52:00 Copy: VHS 2

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 4

Red Dawn- 1958-2 hrs 1958

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 5

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

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 6

Sistema Sandinista- Masada, Jeronimo 56 min.

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 7

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

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VHS

Box 8, Folder 8

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

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Beta

Box 8, Folder 9

Contra Pursuit

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A trival pursuit parody game