Contact:
johnlindsaypoland@gmail.com
Tel: 510-282-8983
John Lindsay-Poland is a writer, activist, researcher and analyst focused on human rights and demilitarization, especially in the Americas. He is currently co-director of the California Healing Justice program of the American Friends Service Committee, with a focus on police demilitarization.
He writes about, researches and organizes action for human rights and demilitarization of US policy in Latin America, and currently coordinates Stop US Arms to Mexico, a project of Global Exchange.
He has co-authored many reports and articles about both the legal and illicit gun trade to Mexico. 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 FOR’s Colombia peace team. From 2003 to 2014, he edited a monthly newsletter focused on Colombia and U.S. policy, Latin America Update.
Previously he served with Peace Brigades International (PBI) in Guatemala and El Salvador, and co-founded PBI's Colombia Project in 1994. He lives with his partner, the artist James Groleau, in Oakland, California.
