News from the Women’s Tax Resistance League

The new issue of More Than a Paycheck, NWTRCC’s newsletter, is now on-line, featuring the following stories:

• No to War Again — a lead-off editorial about the evergreen resistance tactic of war tax resistance now that we’re confronting yet another war, this time in Libya
• Alternative Funds — Happy Birthdays — two war tax resisters’ redirection funds turn 40 this year
• Mikel Komba reports on the Global Women’s Strike actions in Wisconsin
• Some notes on tax law and IRS policy changes
• Jason Rawn and Jesse Watson advocate links between war tax resisters and permaculture groups
• Some ideas and actions, reports of the passing of three veteran resisters, and an update on imprisoned resisters Frank Donnelly and Carlos Steward
• Resources that will come in handy as you enter the season of tax protests and protests against military spending
• An invitation to the upcoming NWTRCC national gathering in Berkeley and Oakland next month
• A profile of and by war tax resister Rod Nippert

In other news…

• Several businesses in Lansing, Michigan have responded to the loss of business in the wake of a smoking ban by refusing to pay their taxes.
• The Mennonite profiles war tax resister Martha Graber.
• “Stop sending suspicious packages to the IRS” pleads Justin Kendall of The Pitch, since people apparently can’t stop sending suspicious packages to the IRS — two days in a row recently in the Kansas City office, according to Kendall.

Thanks to NWTRCC for plugging The Picket Line.