April 23, 2024

Arnie Alpert and Maggie Fogarty of the New Hampshire American Friends Service Committee broadcast this week from a studio at WSCA in Portsmouth, NH, where they have guests discussing the impact of the American arms trade on Mexico. https://www.afsc.org/resource/stop-us-fueled-violence-mexico.

 

State House budget update, Ways and Means Committee, Finance Committee, June 1 crossover deadline, process of wrapping up this year’s legislative session; Fisher and Frost; SB3, non-voting rights; – “The Gringo’s Tale” – Steve Earle – ; “Where the Guns Go”; John Lindsay-Poland of AFSC, San Francisco, impact of U.S. policies, drug war, Merida initiative, arms traffic; Maria Herrera Magdaleno, uses of imported arms, narco government, disappeared children and others, no security for children in everyday life; Carlos Perez Ricart, global capitalization and manufacture of arms, special role of export from U.S. factories; -“Solo Pidio a Dios” – Mercedes Sosa – ; John Lindsay-Poland, end-use controls, journalists in danger, U.S. border states, local N.H. workers in arms factories, Leahy law; ending announcements, SB3, immigration.