The Picket Line — 26 August 2004

26 August 2004

Now I know the War Tax Resistance movement’s hitting its stride — it’s got its own funk anthem!

In other news, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Arun is going to Palestine to try to encourage the revival of nonviolent resistance there. His visit will include a meeting with Yasser Arafat.

Brian Whitaker in The Guardian speculates as to why Gandhi’s model of non-violent resistance has met with suspicion and repression in the Middle East.

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How you can resist funding the government → a survey of tactics of historical tax resistance campaigns → sing tax resistance songs → see also: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; Kathy Kelly asks us to stand up and resist now, while the risks are still low. Also: The tax resistance movement adds a folk song alongside its funk anthem.; War tax resisters John & Pat Schwiebert, Rod Nippert, Ed Hedemann, and Marjoire Nelson are in the papers. Also: today was my last day as a volunteer income tax preparer (how much did I cost the government this year?). And: Jim Bouman discusses war tax resistance with his skeptical son. Also: download a Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings concert video of “What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes.”; Today we add a rap track to the tax resistance audio library. Also: Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on war tax resister Pam Allee. And: a look back at the influence of the war tax resistance advocacy of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen in the 1980s.; Occasionally, tax resistance takes the form of opposition so widespread and mainstream that it wins at the ballot box. Such was the case in Castine, Maine, where residents voted to illegally refuse, as a town, to pay a state school tax, 35 years ago today.; A song from a tax resistance campaign against the British occupation of Ghana in 1854.
How you can resist funding the government → other forms our opposition can take → nonviolent action; “People Power” → in the modern Middle East: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; Two of the Peace Tax Seven defend the “Peace Tax” movement. Also: how we got into Iraq is a lot like how we got into Vietnam; the Palestinian resistance starts a nonviolent resistance campaign; more tales of torture from Abu Ghraib; and Najaf — not quite a Hiroshima or Dresden, but probably a Stalingrad, Sarajevo or Beirut, say U.S. troops.; Some follow-up on the prospects for nonviolent resistance in the Middle East. Also: War tax resister John Kefalas is declared the winner of the recount, and will be the Democratic Party candidate for Colorado House District 52. And the New York Times style guide shows how to conjugate the verb “to torture” — they torture, he tortures, we abuse.; “People Power” is catching on from the Ukraine to Belarus to Moldova to… Lebanon? Iraq? The Dubya Squad’s democratizers love it in Eastern Europe, but if it caught on in, say, Egypt or Saudi Arabia I doubt they’d be so happy. But the folks at Gene Sharp’s think tank are a bit more inclusive, as their collection of nonviolent revolution pamphlet translations shows.; I’m back from the land of the megatoritos and I’m starting to clear out the email inbox and RSS backlog as the invasion anniversary and Tax Day approach. I’ve got a link to some war tax resistance PSAs for your favorite radio station, and an update on the United for Peace and Justice war tax resistance publicity proposal. Also: Henry David Thoreau has a blog.

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