Mexican activist Juan Fraire Escobedo, whose mother, Marisela Escobedo, was killed while protesting the lack of justice for the murder of his sister, Rubi, will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at First UMC Plano about the struggle to end violence in Ciudad Juarez and along the Texas border. Escobedo brings a powerful testimony of the human costs of the drug war, militarism and gun trafficking, and is part of a movement to forge peace in Mexico. His story has been featured on NBC's Dateline. John Lindsay-Poland of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who addresses gun trafficking to Mexico, the drug war and what the United States can do, will also speak.

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