Tax Resistance Uprisings Break Out in China

Some bits and pieces from here and there:

• A new website called earthineer is designed for the do-it-yourself, homesteading sorts… and it is developing a barter & marketplace feature that looks like it could be very useful to those of us trying to move as much as possible into the solidarity economy. (ᔥ Claire Wolfe)
• Some families in Sligo and in Carlow, Ireland, barricaded their neighborhoods to prevent the installation of water meters that are going to be facilitating a new stealth tax on water.
• The Richmond Times-Dispatch did a profile on war tax resister and gay-rights activist Jon Klein.
• The snack bar at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., was shut down when inspectors found rodent droppings and other health violations.

From the 1 July 1843 Monmouthshire Merlin:

Another Gate Destroyed by Rebecca.

Thursday, two o’clock, p.m. — Last night or early this morning, a number of this lady’s children proceeded to Penygarn gate, in the parish of Llanegwad, and which is situated on the mail road between this place and Llandilo, and a very short distance from Llanegwad village. They commenced operations with their accustomed weapons, and in a short time destroyed the gate and afterwards demolished the toll-house. When the work of destruction was completed they fired fifteen volleys and dispersed.