Some links from here and there:
- Erica Chenoweth summarizes the promise of sustained, wisely-conducted, nonviolent resistance in a Guardian op-ed: It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator — with civil resistance
- Jordan Cooper speculates about the possibility of using blockchain techniques (a la bitcoin) to create a self-enforcing escrow account that people could deposit their taxes into such that the money would only be released to the government when certain conditions / demands were met: Blockchain Based Tax Resistance a.k.a. “Resistcoin”
- There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out, with content including:
- war tax resistance in the age of Trump
- a new campaign focusing on redirecting taxes from the government to “organizing for liberation led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
- some brief updates on what war tax resistance activists are up to in their communities, and how other activists are looking to tax resistance as a tactic in their battles
- remembering Ed Pearson, founder of the Conscience and Military Tax Campaign
- a profile of war tax resister Kayla Starr
