New National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Newsletter

The latest issue of More Than a Paycheck, NWTRCC’s newsletter, is now on line. Some of what you’ll find within:

• Ed Hedemann tells of how he used the Freedom of Information Act to find out how the IRS was pursuing him over the years
• Frank Donnelly and Jack Moe write about the experience of war tax resisters in federal prison camps
• Reports on the 5,574-checks protest of Evan Reeves, and the NWTRCC presence at the School of the Americas Watch protest and the Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
• A wrap-up of the business meeting held at the NWTRCC national gathering last month
• A profile of war tax resister Patricia Tompkins

Some bits and pieces from here and there:

• You can read more (en español) about Spanish war tax resister Jorge Güemes (see ♇ 2 December 2010) at Utopia Contagiosa and Insumissia.
• You’d think there would be nothing easier for the government than preventing people they’ve already put behind bars from taking money from the government by filing fraudulent tax returns. Apparently not. Despite this being a problem that has attracted news stories and congressional hearings and such for as long as I remember, the amount of money the IRS gives to prisoners for lying on their tax returns continues to rise.
• It has been illuminating and disturbing how the world’s governments and large corporations have obsequiously bowed to the bleatings of the American hatriarchy and joined in the attack on WikiLeaks. But WikiLeaks has already won this round, and Clinton’s state department are just punch-drunkedly swinging their gloves in the air after the bell.
  • For every domain that gets shut down, dozens of mirrors spring up. “The toothpaste is out of the tube and we intend to keep it out of the tube,” said a spokesman for the Center for a Stateless Society, which is hosting one such mirror and has created tools and a tutorial for people who want to host their own version of WikiLeaks.
  • You may have heard that Visa and PayPal have shut off the flow of funds through their services to WikiLeaks and to the legal fund that helps to protect its team. But there are still several other ways you can help fund their important work.
  • If you want to understand more about the theory behind the WikiLeaks strategy, which is strikingly different and more radical than the commonly-deployed references to The Pentagon Papers and such would lead you to believe, you could do worse than read the analysis at zunguzungu.