U.S. War Tax Resisters Met in Virginia

Here’s some more about the NWTRCC national gathering held in Virginia earlier this month:

• The War Resisters League Asheville blog covers the gathering.
• Ruth Benn’s meeting minutes from Sunday’s coordinating committee meeting are on-line, as are her notes from the Friday and Saturday meeting sessions.

And a few more links from here and there:

• Greg Beato, in Reason, discusses our barter country: As the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless transactions.
• The papers report that something like 46 cents of every dollar the U.S. federal government spends this year will be borrowed.
• Here’s an update on Charles Merrill’s tax resistance challenge to the federal government’s discrimination against married gay couples in the tax law via the Defense of Marriage Act.
• This looks like it might be worth a watch: Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency, and Why It Matters