The U.S. must address the flow of legal weaponry to Mexico—weapons that too often are used against Mexicans and migrants. 

Last month, more details came to light in the disappearance of 43 student teachers from Ayotozinapa, Guerrero. The students were in the city of Iguala one night in September 2014 when they were seized—and disappeared—by municipal police.

Jordy Silverstein is a historian based in Melbourne, Australia, and is a member of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS), an organisation which was created in 1984 and has the tagline "A Jewish voice amongst progressives, and a progressive voice amongst Jews". Recent campaigns run by the AJDS have included ‘Don’t Buy Settlement Products’ and ‘What’s Behind the JNF’.

All are welcome to join us for the “People’s Convention” in Cleveland.

There’s been a lot of attention on what may happen at the Republican National Convention (RNC), which takes place in Cleveland in July.

Greg Coleridge is director of AFSC Northeast Ohio and has worked with AFSC since 1983.

A few picks from AFSC staff this week:

Loretta Lynch and the criminalization of trans people, by H Kapp-Klote and Angela Peoples, Truthout