by Ruth Isabel Robles
on April 12, 2013
Four months after the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy, the U.S. Senate has finally taken the first step in preventing future gun violence. On Thursday, April 11, 2013 the Senate voted 68-31 to begin the debate on gun control legislation. As you've probably read in the news, the current version of the Senate gun bill would make important headway by strengthening current laws on gun trafficking and straw purchasers, increasing grants for improvements in school safety and expanding background checks to nearly every gun purchase.
Tell your senator to end the bloodshed on both sides of the border.
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by Ruth Isabel Robles
on April 02, 2013
Update: In the past six years 26,000 people have disappeared in Mexico. Tell Congress: Demand Human Rights in Mexico!
7441
That’s the number of human rights violation complaints filed against Mexico’s military from 2006 – 2012. If that number doesn’t floor you, the next one will:
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by Ruth Isabel Robles
on March 13, 2013
Update: Click here to check out our flash mob photo!
Let’s turn back the clock. The year is 2006. The month is May. Mexico State Security Forces evict a group of flower sellers from a local market in Texcoco, Mexico, whom authorities claim set up stalls without permission outside of the market. This eviction produced an outpouring of community support for the vendors in Texcoco and in San Salvador Atenco. The protest, which lasted two days, resulted in arrests of more than 200 people, 47 of which were women. These women were forced to endure unimaginable forms of violence at the hands of the police. Thus far, state authorities have pursued criminal action in only two of the 11 cases, citing “abuse of authority or “lewd acts” and not, torture.
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by Ruth Isabel Robles
on February 01, 2013
“We embrace the pain of the mothers and fathers in the United States who have lost children to gun violence, because my own son was disappeared in Michoacán with a firearm,” said Araceli Rodríguez, mother  of Luis Ángel León Rodríguez in a statement from Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD). Just like parents who lost children in the horrific Newtown shooting, victims across Mexico who have lost their sons and daughters to gun violence are calling for action to prevent future tragedies.
What can you do? Join us and call your members of Congress on Monday, February 4th!
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by Jenny Johnson
on January 16, 2013
Today, President Obama unveiled an expansive plan to tackle gun violence. For so many of us focused on ending the bloodshed that has devastated communities on both sides of the border, this is encouraging news.
We wanted to THANK YOU for adding YOUR voice to the groundswell calling for an end to gun violence. Earlier this week, the petition that many of you signed urging President Obama to better enforce and tighten lax U.S. gun laws that traffickers exploit to get guns and smuggle them into Mexico was delivered to Vice President Biden’s task force on gun violence . As you may recall, this is the same petition initiated by groups from Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in partnership with LAWG and dozens of faith-based, human rights and anti-gun violence groups from both sides of the border.
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by Ruth Isabel Robles
on October 25, 2012
We were proud to join with YOU and so many partners and allies in hosting Mexico’s Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity here in our nation’s capitol last month. Highlights of their 3-day stop in Washington, D.C. included a TV-camera crowded press conference on the steps of a Capitol Hill church and a ‘lobby day’ where teams of victims and advocates deployed all over Capitol Hill to tell their stories to individual members and congressional aides. The historic visit ended with a moving vigil and march through Columbia Heights to a final event in Malcolm X Park, a dramatic poetry reading by the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, whose reaction to his son’s murder sparked the movement, and a stirring speech by the legendary farmworker union leader, Dolores Huerta.
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