‘Raise Your Voice’ Archives
The Spirit of Marv Davidov
from the series Raise Your Voice... By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar The stately apartment complex at 2615 Park Avenue was Marv’s home for a spell before his final passing in the year 2012. As a member of the War Resisters League, he had famously given leadership to the Honeywell Project, which exposed the corporate war profiteering of the day. Note: My generation still recalls the image of Vietnamese children running naked beneath clouds of napalm… their skin melting away. June 7, 2025… Beneath the banner of Women Against Military Madness, we marched upon the headquarters of Lockheed Martin, Inc., an outfit which profits from precision guided Hellfire missiles, deployed to take out journalists in Gaza. A few days ago… ‘False flags’ were waving in LA. 1970 something, Honeywell… Marvin admonished the crowd: “We will deem anyone who commits property damage an agent provocateur.” Now… In keeping with the spirit: “the moment [...]
Word Games
from the series Raise Your Voice... By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar Note: The words in all caps which follow should be credited to the author. However, in a tone reminiscent of the cinematic voice of God admonishing Moses, my computer has informed me that a force of evil has entered it in order to deplete my finances! I remain in shock! Because of this the source of the poem below is now unknown to me. YOU?Given the elevated internationalist I.Q. found within the territory of our Phillips Community, presumably, most of us will acknowledge the Palestinian authorship of the following poem. Yes, we are able to see beneath the rubble! Yet, we must acknowledge the refrain: “BUT, I AM TO BLAME FOR MY RESISTANCE!” Question: Back in slavery days, why did Nat Turner rebel? Answer: They raped his wife with impunity; her children were sold away as slaves. Question: By what course might our school teachers elevate the empathetic emotions of our school children? YOU?TAKE MY [...]
Nightmares and Sweet Dreams
Peter Molenaar from the series Raise Your Voice... By PETER MOLENAAR April 3rd, 1811 Chicago Avenue….Folks from all around gathered here to protest threats to our Social Security. Democrats listen up: extend the program’s solvency by having millionaires pay the same percentage of income the rest of us pay. SCRAP THE CAP! Photos courtesy Peter Molenaar April 5th, State Capitol grounds….About 25,000 protesters expressed a multi-faceted angst. The artistic expression of homemade signs and costumes was unprecedented, as well. For example, a paper mache mutation protruded from the belly of a bearded elder. It was rendered with stars and stripes, outstretched arms, anguished face and gaping mouth… remember Picasso’s Guernica? Meanwhile, Nukewatch Quarterly:The transfer of new U.S. nuclear bombs to air bases in Europe is part of a “nuclear sharing program”. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Just for fun, might we cut military spending in half to see who [...]
