How you can resist funding the government → a survey of tactics of historical tax resistance campaigns → reach out to potential resisters at the time and place of payment → Tax Day actions → 1971

Some links of interest about war tax resistance:

  • Getty Images reached into the archives and pulled out this photo of a demonstration in New York City by the group War Tax Resistance.
  • War tax resister Ruth Anne Friesen was recently profiled in the Mennonite World Review. Excerpt:

    For two years, Ruth Anne Friesen has redirected a portion of her federal income tax payments to support the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience program at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.

  • NWTRCC has issued its report on war tax redirection for . The group learned of $44,660 that had been redirected from the U.S. Treasury to worthy charities by war tax resisters who organize Alternative Funds for the purpose.

From the Syracuse Post-Standard:

Few Drawn to Pacifist Tax Protest

New York (UPI) — A demonstration assailing the use of tax money to finance the Vietnam war drew barely 50 persons to the Internal Revenue Service building , compared to thousands at a similar protest .

A thin line of protesters handed out slices of apple pie symbolizing government spending. They argued that the war “gets the biggest slice of pie.”

Speakers at the demonstration, organized by War Tax Resistance, included David Dellinger, one of the five militant leftists found guilty last year of crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot at the Democratic national convention in Chicago in .

This year, as last, the tax protest was held on the last day on which income tax returns may be legally filed.