John Lindsay-Poland
@johnlp3
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activist & researcher, I tweet on #humanrights, US policy, Latin America, policing @afsc_org My tweets are my own.
Oakland, CA
Joined January 2017
Democrats criticize Trump’s ending of Biden gun export rule
thehill.com
Democrats are demanding answers over President Trump’s decision to greenlight the unrestricted export of American-made firearms, saying the move risks empowering criminal and terrorist organization…
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My conversation with Ernesto López Portillo about the guns feeding violence, drug trafficking and forced migration. Coming Monday. In Spanish.
En palabras sencillas, nos enseñó parte de las raíces profundas (él las llama estructurales) de la relación de USA con las armas de fuego. John Lindsay-Poland estudioso del tráfico ilegal de armas grabó con el @PSC_IBERO y aprendimos mucho. Lanzamiento este lunes 13/oct.
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Amazing account of communities in Mexico impacted by US-produced ammo. Recommended. Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory.
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🚨Alert | Yesterday, the Bukele government presented another set of legal reforms that would further delay hearings for the tens of thousands of people in pre-trial imprisonment under the State of Exception in #ElSalvador 1/2 https://t.co/PVjKdoWMVv
laprensagrafica.com
Una iniciativa de ley llegó ayer al Órgano Legislativo y plantea que Fiscalía tenga dos años más para presentar una acusación formal y que existan “audiencias abiertas”.
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📣 ¿Te enteraste? EEUU rechazó la demanda de México vs 7 empresas de armas que afectan a nuestro país😕 Desde la Red binacional #DesarmandoElMiedo lamentamos esta decisión y llamamos a no frenar los esfuerzos contra el tráfico y la violencia armada. 🇺🇸🇲🇽 https://t.co/yqshlpnfcI
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Assessing Trump's First 50 Days: Mexico is Moving Target for Trump’s Shooting Spree. Trump's famous mixing of bilateral issues is an opening for Mexico to press the US to take more actions against illegal gun trafficking. See my commentary:
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Mexican president Claudia Scheinbaum said yesterday that if there is an alliance with criminal organizations, it is with the gun shops in the United States that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups. See our report published on Friday:
stopusarmstomexico.org
New Data on the U.S. Gun Trade to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean A report by Stop US Arms to Mexico Download the report. The U.S. firearms market is generating growing storms of violence…
Rechazamos categóricamente la calumnia que hace la Casa Blanca al Gobierno de México de tener alianzas con organizaciones criminales, así como cualquier intención injerencista en nuestro territorio. Si en algún lugar existe tal alianza es en las armerías de los Estados Unidos
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No Shelter from the Storm: Update on Iron River of Guns, released today, analyzes new data on gun trafficking from US to Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, including traffic from Arizona, Trump/Biden gun exports & recommendations. https://t.co/92p9F8LkWQ
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@StephenM asegura que durante #Inauguration2025 Donald Trump le pondrá la categoría de terroristas a los carteles mexicanos. ¿Eso convierte a los vendedores de armas en #EEUU , en cómplices de terrorismo? Recordemos que estos carteles matan con armas made in USA. #WashingtonDC
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On eve of next presidency, join us Sunday 8pm EST for How Progressives Can Talk About Immigration: Root Causes and Why People Cross the Border, on connections of immigration and US guns. Register at: https://t.co/YVwQ63pMwB
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If you live in Berkeley, Oakland or Albany, please vote for Nikki Fortunado Bas for County Supervisor, who is capable, progressive & not beholden to real estate or police interests. Her opponent's supporters have sent ugly and false mailers. More info:
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"The Israeli army called my shooting an 'accident,' claiming the soldiers fired live rounds into the air ... The truth is they fired straight at me." Column: I'm an American activist. Israeli forces shot me at a peaceful protest in the West Bank
time.com
The Sept. 6 killing of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi haunts me because a bullet tore through my leg at the same weekly demonstration a month earlier.
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🇲🇽🇺🇸 Houston, Tucson y Phoenix, las ciudades de Estados Unidos que más inundan con armas a México “Las armas vienen de todas partes del país, pero se trafican especialmente desde ciudades de Texas o Arizona, señala el investigador @johnlp3 ✍️ @luispablob
https://t.co/w3TyiPRTvi
elpais.com
Un informe reciente de la organización Stop US Arms to Mexico brinda nuevas claves del nutrido tráfico ilegal de armas
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If you want to understand what makes thousands of migrants flee through Mexico, see this piece I wrote in today's Texas Observer:
texasobserver.org
Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms.
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In the last two decades, communities in #Mexico & the US have suffered devastating losses. Homicides, disappearances & overdoses are inextricably linked. Check out our binational call to action from the🇺🇸 🇲🇽 border on #internationaldayofthedisappeared & #OverdoseAwarenessDay.
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"There are more than 200,000 firearms flowing annually into Mexico from the U.S., more than 110,000 disappeared in Mexico and more than 650 mass shootings annually in the U.S. – that is why we have come to Washington to make our voices heard – the time for binational action is
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"Armed violence is a racist and systemic cycle. We hear a lot about migration to the US as a problem, but not about why they migrate...These people are fleeing from the weapons that are exported from our country." - @bella_dalacio
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🇲🇽🇺🇸 The iron river of weapons transiting from the United States to Mexico that empowers criminal organizations and accelerates forced migration originates from hundreds of gun manufacturers and passes through thousands of local U.S. gun dealers, every year. We must stop the
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My best chance to tell Americans why our guns are responsible for the violence south of the border and how they affect migration & drug trafficking. An honor to be on CNN GPS with @FareedZakaria to talk about #ExitWoundsBook @ucpress
https://t.co/dyMCP0BBWQ
cnn.com
Fareed talks to Ieva Jusionyte, author of “Exit Wounds,” about how American guns that cross southward into Mexico are contributing to a vicious cycle of violence on the US southern border.
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