John Lindsay-Poland has written about, researched and organized action for human rights and demilitarization of US policy in Latin America for more than 30 years. In addition to coordinating the Stop US Arms to Mexico project of Global Exchange, he works for police demilitarizaton with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Healing Justice Program in Oakland, California.

He produced the documentary film "Where the Guns Go: U.S. Policy and Human Rights in Mexico" (2016), and has co-authored and edited numerous reports and articles on gun trafficking and exports and the US role in violence in Mexico, as well as on US military bases, policy, and history in Latin America. He is author of  Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism (Duke University Press, 2018) and Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003). He co-authored Equipped for War: Exposing Militarized Policing in California (AFSC, 2022). 

​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 the FOR Peace Presence accompaniment team in Colombia. Previously he served with Peace Brigades International (PBI) in Guatemala and El Salvador, and co-founded PBI's Colombia Project in 1994.