We are the People’s Movement for Peace and Justice. Our Message is Simple and Clear: In the face of violence and tragedy, we stand as one to demand justice.
#IgnoredNoMore #InvisibleNoMore
The destinies of the U.S. and Mexico, as well as our movements for social and environmental justice, are inextricably intertwined. Ending regional violence and success in handling cross-border challenges — like migration, human rights, inequality , and dangerous gun trafficking – requires the participation and engagement of civil society movements on both sides of the border.
We are living in a pivotal and urgent moment in both Mexico and the United States. From rising gun violence, political exclusion and disenfranchisement, worsening repression of migrants, and the expanding environmental and climate driven crises, the need for action, reform and political activism is now.
The People’s Movement for Peace & Justice (PMPJ) is a growing assembly of Black and Indigenous peoples, migrants, survivors of gun violence, and human rights defenders on both sides of the US/Mexico border impacted by violence, criminalization, inequality, racism and human rights violations. Long-standing impunity for these injustices motivate us to raise our voices collectively using civic engagement as our strategy. We understand that all of our struggles are interconnected, and we are committed to weaving our community-led solutions and movements together in a participatory, transparent and meaningful way.
PMPJ coordinates cross-border demands emerging from civil society across different sectors and issues, organized around four core platforms: Black Co-Networks, Pueblos Indígenas and Native Americans, Survivors of Gun Violence, and Migration. Our goals are to elevate our impact on policy debates that impact our lives and hold our governments accountable. With upcoming presidential elections in both Mexico and the US in 2024, this work is of crucial importance right now.
The time to build united, inclusive political power is now.
10 PRIORITIES
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
The People’s Movement for Peace and Justice has a shared agenda to develop a pathway for an end to the proliferation of gun violence and the militarized drug war; a stop to the destructive impacts of pollution and climate change that disproportionately impact people of color and low-income communities; and support for migrant populations with compassionate immigration policies, rather than criminalization.
To build Peace in the region, we need strict and effective controls on guns, particularly US guns which account for 70% of guns recovered at crime scenes.
Militarization as a public safety strategy far from bringing us closer to peace, has generated greater lethality in conflicts and has deepened the detention of painful migrants.
We need health, not punishment.
Put human rights first.
Until we find them. To solve the crisis of missing persons in Mexico and in the United States, our region requires a binational strategy and a regional campaign to search for missing persons, where US and Mexican governments collaborate to find our loved ones, know what happened and reach justice.
