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ANTI-EMBARGO ACTIVISM AND US CUBA POLICY: A RATIONAL DEPARTURE
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Since 1969, more than one hundred organisations in the United States have been attempting to change US Cuba policy. Collectively, they constitute a dynamic social movement clamouring for change on family, tourist, cultural and academic travel, remittances and trade to Cuba. This article attempts to explain why this movement, identified as the 'anti-embargo movement', has persisted in attempting to change US Cuba policy for decades although it has met with such limited success over time. A social movements theoretical framework is employed to analyse the persistence of the movement and to explain the impetus accounting for its sustained activism in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on the popular resource mobilisation literature, the article contends that the rational, utilitarian model is inadequate to understand the multifarious attributes of the movement. Therefore, it turns to alternative social movements perspectives such as tactical frames, solidarity networks and co-option, for possible answers.
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Interview with Paseándolo, Washington DC, 25 October 2006.
Interview with Rodriguez, Washington DC, 26 August 2006.
Interview with Gasteyer, New York, 10 August 2006.
Interview with Rodriguez, Washington DC, 25 October 2006.
Indira Rampersad, 'Down With the Embargo, Social Movements, Contentious Politics and U.S. Cuba Policy (1960-2006)', PhD dissertation, http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/ UFE0019440/rampersad_i.pdf, pp. 169-79.
Interviews with Wilhelm, Miami, Florida, 21 August 2006; Fernández, Miami, Florida, 7 July 2005; California, Fernández Levy, 23 October 2006.
Interview with Milne, Washington DC, 6 June 2005.
Interview with Walker, Washington DC, 17 May 2005.
Interview with Nethercutt, Washington DC, 8 June 2005.
Interview with Carlucci, Washington DC, 6 June 2005.