New National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Newsletter

The April issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with content that includes:

• a preview of the “Tax Day” actions planned this year
• notes on how war tax resisters are reacting to IRS policies
• Joseph Olejak, who was recently convicted of criminal charges for his war tax resistance, tells his story.
• prospects for convincing Amnesty International to take on the case of American conscientious objectors to military spending, an interesting note about John & Pat Schwiebert’s resistance, and brief reports from two recent workshops on war tax resistance
• a summary of some recently-released on-line resources
• announcements about the May national gathering in San Diego, November’s in Indiana, and about the newly-reorganized War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund
• the story of Jack Herbert’s painstaking (but successful) effort to get his “frivolous filing” penalty overturned

The War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund is a mutual aid/insurance program for war tax resisters. People who participate in the fund help to reimburse resisters for any penalties & interest that the IRS successfully seizes from them.

If you would like to participate in this mutual aid program, I encourage you to follow the link above, or to view their recently-released Spring 2014 Appeal in which they are raising $10,410 to help pay the interest & penalties seized from three resisters: Larry Bassett, John Lindsay-Poland, and John Marley. To reach this total, they are asking all of the participants in the fund to contribute $30.

If you missed the recent “War Tax Resistance for a Better World” Google Hangout, you can find a recording of it on YouTube: