Tag: MAPA voices

Paki Wieland, Cherished Activist, Friend, and MAPA Member Dies

March 19, 2026 Merri Ansara

Paki Wieland was the soul and conscience of peace and social justice. She was there to protest the Gulf and Iraq Wars, she was there to stand by Haiti and for its sovereignty free from intervention, she was there to stand by Cuba and against […]

MAPA Voices: “I am a Jew by birth…”

May 20, 2025 Mark Stern

by Mark Stern I am a Jew by birth, and I have never renounced or shied away from Judaism. I have not changed my name or its spelling or converted to another religion. Half my family are Jews, including both of my children. And I […]

MAPA Voices: “God in Gaza?” by Peter Kakos

December 18, 2024 Peter Kakos

God In Gaza? Look: There, on that hospital floor demolished by OUR bombs, crowded with patients with no place to flee; Look: in tents of the displaced masses, fire-bombed at night, children -clinging to IVs- burned alive, (MAY IT HAVE BEEN INSTANT!!!); […]

MAPA Voices: “UNTHINKABLE” by Robert Cable

August 19, 2024 Robert Cable

“UNTHINKABLE” for Smedley Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace I Today is “Hiroshima Day,” courtesy of Enola Gay. Bombardier Ferebee’s “Bombs away!” blasted much of that town away. “Little Boy,” first atomic bomb, Was dropped on it without a qualm. That August 6th, 1945, half […]

MAPA Voices: “A letter to my fellow peace activists…” by Hoffman the Organizer

June 12, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

June 7, 2024 A letter to my fellow peace activists, and the left more broadly, This past week saw the crossing of a dramatic danger line in global conflict: for the first time since the invention of the atomic bomb, the US has authorized the […]

MAPA Voices: “Empty words” by Grace Sanford

February 21, 2024 Grace Sanford

Empty words What is this world We live in? We change the numbers Of deaths each week Delete a three, add a six Such a simple task But is the result Of horror we can’t imagine. An execution, delete, add 15 A bombing, delete, add […]

MAPA Voices: “EARTH’S FAUSTIAN DILEMMA: THE MIDDLE EAST” by Carol Rae Bradford

December 19, 2023 Carol Rae Bradford

EARTH’S FAUSTIAN DILEMMA: THE MIDDLE EAST LINCOLN AND WASHINGTON EACH TURNING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES THE PRESENT LEADERS ONLY SERVE TO MAIL FUNDS OR SEND OUT THEIR KNAVES. BIBI ENJOYS HIS POWER TO KILL HE LAUGHS WHILE MILLIONS CRY ‘CUZ THE U.S.’S GREAT, MONEY-HOT […]