is the deadline for filing U.S. federal income tax returns — “Tax Day” — which is also a traditional day of action and publicity for American war tax resisters. Here is an overview of some from this year:
- LancasterOnline covered local war tax resisters Barbara & Harold Penner, Linda & Titus Peachey, Berry & Sharon Friesen, and Janet & John Stoner.
- NWTRCC’s Erica Weiland was interviewed on Peace Buzz (audio).
- teleSUR reported on American war tax resisters: “No More Money for War: US Peace Activists Refuse to Pay Taxes”
- The War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund sent out its Spring Report. The fund distributed $9,988 to war tax resisters last year to reimburse them for any penalties and interest the IRS had managed to seize from them.
- Paul Buckley spoke about the history of Quaker war tax resistance for QuakerSpeak:
- Vice reports “This Is What Happens if You Don’t Pay Your Taxes,” using the experience of war tax resister Ruth Benn as an example.
- War tax resister redmoonsong spoke on the Simple Living Works! podcast.
- David Zarembka wrote for the American Friends Service Committee’s Acting in Faith blog on the theme “God and Caesar: On war tax resistance.”
- NWTRCC’s Ed Hedemann spoke on the radio dispatch show.
- Sue Barnhart explained her war tax resistance in the Eugene Register-Guard.
