John Lindsay-Poland
Coordinator, Project to Stop US Arms to Mexico (website)
twitter: @johnlp3
email: johnlindsaypoland [at] gmail [dot] org
phone: (510) 282-8983
Coordinator, Project to Stop US Arms to Mexico (website)
twitter: @johnlp3
email: johnlindsaypoland [at] gmail [dot] org
phone: (510) 282-8983
Latin America | security assistance | arms sales
John Lindsay-Poland has written about, researched and organized action for human rights and demilitarization of US policy in Latin America for more than 30 years. In addition to coordinating the Stop US Arms to Mexico project of Global Exchange, he works for police demilitarizaton with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Healing Justice Program in Oakland, California.
He produced the documentary film "Where the Guns Go: U.S. Policy and Human Rights in Mexico" (2016), and has co-authored and edited numerous reports and articles on gun trafficking and exports and the US role in violence in Mexico, as well as on US military bases, policy, and history in Latin America. He is author of Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism (Duke University Press, 2018) and Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003). He co-authored Equipped for War: Exposing Militarized Policing in California (AFSC, 2022).
From 1989 to 2014, he served the interfaith pacifist organization Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), as coordinator of the Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean, as research director, and founded the FOR Peace Presence accompaniment team in Colombia. Previously he served with Peace Brigades International (PBI) in Guatemala and El Salvador, and co-founded PBI's Colombia Project in 1994.
Recent Publications:
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John Lindsay-Poland has written about, researched and organized action for human rights and demilitarization of US policy in Latin America for more than 30 years. In addition to coordinating the Stop US Arms to Mexico project of Global Exchange, he works for police demilitarizaton with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Healing Justice Program in Oakland, California.
He produced the documentary film "Where the Guns Go: U.S. Policy and Human Rights in Mexico" (2016), and has co-authored and edited numerous reports and articles on gun trafficking and exports and the US role in violence in Mexico, as well as on US military bases, policy, and history in Latin America. He is author of Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism (Duke University Press, 2018) and Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003). He co-authored Equipped for War: Exposing Militarized Policing in California (AFSC, 2022).
From 1989 to 2014, he served the interfaith pacifist organization Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), as coordinator of the Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean, as research director, and founded the FOR Peace Presence accompaniment team in Colombia. Previously he served with Peace Brigades International (PBI) in Guatemala and El Salvador, and co-founded PBI's Colombia Project in 1994.
Recent Publications:
- "Leaked Mexican army emails shed bright light on weapons trafficked, exported to Mexico," Stop US Arms to Mexico, December 6, 2022.
- "Armas de EU en México requieren intervenciones económicas," El Economista, October 12, 2022.
- "Stopping Gun Violence in the Americas: A Preventable Pandemic," Speaking of Medicine and Health blog, PLOS, September 26, 2022.
- "Maquiladoras de armas, fábrica de balas: el flujo de municiones al norte en un tiempo violento," Animal Politico, August 24, 2022.
- "Equipped for War: Exposing Militarized Policing in California," AFSC, April 2022.*
- "The guns that make you keep running," Univision, February 17, 2022.
- "Mexican Police Who Massacred Guatemalan Migrants Get Their Guns from the U.S.," nacla, April 1, 2021.
- "Trump made it easier to export U.S. guns. Biden must reverse these dangerous policies," Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2021.*
- "U.S. gun export data update for 2020," Stop US Arms to Mexico, March 7, 2021.
- "Opinion: Rochester and the state are now partners in gun violence," Seacoast Online (New Hampshire), January 17, 2021.*
- "Deadly Trade: How European and Israeli Arms Exports are Accelerating Violence in Mexico," with many co-authors, Global Exchange, Vredesactie, OPAL, Agir pour la Paix, American Friends Service Committee, Ohne Rüstung Leben, NESEHNUTÍ, Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, and the Centro de Estudios Ecuménicos, December 2020.
- "US Gun Exports Have Spiked During the Pandemic," Inkstick, September 9, 2020.
- "Much of the work of demilitarizing police has to be done at the local level," Responsible Statecraft, July 1, 2020.
- "Stemming the guns of massacre in Mexico," Salt Lake Tribune, November 16, 2019.
- "Italy’s contribution to the Mexican powder keg," Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico, November 12, 2019.
- "Armas y matanzas en México," NEXOS, November 11, 2019.
- "The U.S. Is Flooding the World With Guns. Congress Can Stop That," Foreign Policy in Focus, July 22, 2019.
- "Fact Sheet on U.S. Weapons Sales to Honduras," Stop US Arms to Mexico, June 4, 2019.
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