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Contents include: Nica News, 1990-1991 (drafts), correspondence, ledgers, circulars, reports, press packages, phone trees, election papers, phone rap sheets, member lists, fliers and other printed ephemera. Topics include various talks and demonstrations, a labor delegation from Nicaragua, a "December Retreat," the U.S. invasion of Panama, miscellaneous updates from Peace Net, correspondence of Patricia Elvir (an activist who worked for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) international bureau), Daniel Ortega's visit in August 1990 to New York, activities during Nicaraguan election week and response to Panama invasion, the 1990 election and its aftermath in Nicaragua, including speech by Daniel Ortega to North America, other speeches (Spanish only).

Other organizations represented in this box include New Yorkers for Peace in the Gulf, fliers and minutes, Peace in the Gulf Action Line, event lists and phone message documents, FSLN statements and demonstration fliers, Adelante Street Theater fliers (Spanish and English), Reservists against the Gulf War papers, and subscriptions to Barricada International.

This box contains New York-Nicaragua Construction Brigade material, including internal papers, fundraising,contribution ledgers, mostly bowlathon fliers, orientation packets, participant applications, and papers related to building projects in Nicaragua, including schools community centers, and co-ops. Also included are Peace Ship/Peace House records--including correspondence and participant applications, Peace Ship delegates information, specifcally for the Thanksgiving Peace Ship of 1986, and fundraising materials.

This box also contains New York-Nicaragua Construction Brigade records, including participant applications, fundraising letters and fliers for fundraising events, financial reports, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) applications, Movement Support Network correspondence, Construction Brigade outreach papers, documents regarding a Construction Brigade event with Judy Butler, Howard Zinn, David McMichaels, and Margaret Randall. Brigada Companeras (Women's Brigade) materials include flyers, agendas, phone lists, press contacts, newsletters, participant applications, a Women's Brigade binder holding orientation materials, pamphlets, participant lists, organizational information, correspondence on development, meeting minutes, proposals, budgets, and logistical information.

Other organizations and materials represented are the Movement Support Network Newsletter from Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), CCR information on the U.S. economic embargo of Nicaragua, correspondence of the Task Force Against Government Spying, files on harassment of travellers to Nicaragua by the FBI, including Movement Support Network's harassment reports, Nicaragua Support Project-New Paltz records including meeting minutes, fliers, manuals, fundraising material, newsletters, clippings on Nicaragua, a copy of a CIA Contra manual, and informational booklets, and Global Sweatsop Coalition (GSC) and the Coalition for Real Equitable Economic Development (CREED, predecessor to GSC). The GSC sponsored and kept records for events including the a support demonstration for the Han Young strike in Tijuana, the annual International Women's Day March, the People's Tribunal on Corportate Crimes Against Humanity: Public Arraignment of Disney, Kmart, Nike and Wal-mart, protest against union-busting in support of the Maquila workers in Guatemala at Phillips-Van Heusen factory, and other events.

Includes NSN correspondence, minutes, membership lists and surveys, sign-up lists, fundraising letters, foundation grants information, a North Star Foundation grant award, NicaNews newsletters, event notices, newsletters, membership lists, and documents from a Nicaragua Solidarity Network 1992 national meeting, including workshop outlines and notes, NSN Labor Committee files, and material about the 1996 Nicaragua election; NSN (national) Activists Conference on June 25, 1988 in New York materials include program notes and outlines. Other organizations represented include the Hurricane Mitch Relief Network.

Includes Central Legislative Network materials, a directory of Nicaragua Solidarity groups in New York City, fliers, fundraising materials, internal correspondence, budgets, ledger, materials relating to the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute's sponsorship, minutes, event notices (assorted demonstrations, the Native Land Tour, a speaking tour in 1986), Nicaragua fact sheets, NSN Teacher's project informational packet, NSN conference materials, brochure, and grant, mostly from the North Star Foundation, and New Yorkers Against US Intervention in Central America files. Materials for Oats for Peace, another organization represented in this collection, include financial and administrative records, walkathon materials, an information packet, and fundraising materials.