brief notes about issues of interest to tax resisters, including: the private debt collection companies that the IRS has deputized to collect taxes, and how to do war tax resistance counseling in a “nondirective” way
updates from the NWTRCC field organizer, and a note from new anti-Trump tax resister Andrew Newman
On , Thoreau defied the forces of law and order and the pleas of respectable friends by delivering a defense of John Brown to 2,500 people in Boston.
“The reason why Frederick Douglass is not here,” he began, “is the reason why I am.”
If every privilege check had that kind of snapping specificity and quiet moral thunder, they might be both more subversive and less disdained.
The Fugitive Slave Act of , securing the return of runaways, tipped him over the edge from outrage to activism, though his upbringing had primed him to make the move.
His mother was a founder of the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society; his older sister, Helen, was a friend of Frederick Douglass; the family home, where, aside from two years at Walden, he lived till he died, was a stop on the Underground Railroad to Canada.
Given this context, , for refusing to pay taxes to a slavery-supporting government was a less sensational event than history has tried to make it.
Other links of interest:
Another way the Greek government is trying to tax its tax-averse citizens to pay off international lenders is by adding a 20% tax on coffee imports.
The Cafe Justicia/“Fair trade is not for sale” project plans to respond by smuggling fair trade coffee from Guatemala to Greece.
