John Lindsay-Poland

John Lindsay-Poland co-directs the California Healing Justice Program of the American Friends Service Committee and coordinates the Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico Project of Global Exchange. He has written about, researched and advocated for human rights and demilitarization of US policy for more than 40 years. His research focuses on the gun trade, police militarization, U.S. foreign military assistance and military bases and respect for human rights. John has produced several reports on the weapons trade from the United States to Mexico, most recently “The Iron River of Weapons to Mexico: It Sources and Contents” and “No Shelter from the Storm.” He is the author of Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism and Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (aff). He lives with his partner, the artist James Groleau, in Oakland, California.