How you can resist funding the government → the tax resistance movement → conferences & gatherings → Spring 2016 NWTRCC national in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania

Some new links of interest to war tax resisters in particular:

• The next national gathering of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee will be held from 13–15 May 2016 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia). Check this page for details.
• Anne Barron shares her experiences in organizing a recent war tax resistance teach-in in San Diego.
• I’ve put together a page on Pioneers of the Modern American War Tax Resistance Movement at the NWTRCC site. It gives brief biographies of those resisters who were part of the organized war tax resistance movement that emerged in the late 1940s.
• War Resisters’ International highlighted the bright yellow attack by war tax resisters in Bilbao on the Juan de Garay military barracks.
• Fifth Estate carries Erica Weiland’s article on how war tax resistance featured in the movement to end the U.S. war on Vietnam.

I also recently discovered some war tax resistance items on Issuu — an on-line magazine publishing platform:

• “Mennonites say no to war taxes” — the cover story from an issue of The Mennonite from 2014.
• “Turning Toward Peace program redirects war taxes” (page 40) — a war tax redirection program sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee, as described in The Mennonite of April 2015.
• The Broken Rifle #62 — an issue of the War Resisters’ International newsletter devoted to war tax resistance, from 2004.
• “What if They Gave a War and Nobody Paid?” — an article by David Hartsough in the April 2013 Street Spirit.
• Clearly from My Heart — devoted to the life and ideas of Albuquerque war tax resister Don Schrader.

There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out, with content including:

• an invitation to the upcoming NWTRCC national gathering in Pennsylvania
• a discussion of U.S. citizenship and war tax resisters — both getting citizenship and giving it up
• notes on the Jeju naval base and the Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy
• actions by Don Schrader, Don Timmerman, and Phil Runkel
• a profile of war tax resister Kathy Labriola

In other war tax resistance news:

• NWTRCC is keeping a list of nationwide war tax resistance protest actions taking place between now and tax day.
• Here’s a graphic and write-up from a member of Conscience Canada, the peace tax / war tax resistance group from the great white north, as found in Canadian Mennonite.
• Paper Money carried an article on the “Thoreau Money” banknote-like leaflets that were used by war tax resistance groups in the United States during the Vietnam War. The article goes into unusual detail about the history and structure of the war tax resistance movement in that period.
• War tax resistance season has begun in Spain, too. Here’s the announcement from Derecho de Rebelión.
• The group Conscience, from the U.K., has finalized its version of “peace tax” legislation, which it hopes to get Parliament to consider. It differs in some ways from other countries’ versions of this plan for implementing legalized conscientious objection to military taxation.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with content including:

• A look back at 45 years of grants from war tax resistance “alternative funds”.
• Jason Rawn on the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and its relation to NWTRCC’s “Divest from the Pentagon, Invest in People” campaign.
• Erica Weiland asks whether police brutality, mass incarceration, and institutionalized racism are another “war” worth resisting.
• Highlights from a Q&A session on legal issues surrounding war tax resistance led by NWTRCC’s legal advisor Peter Goldberger.
• A call for a volunteer to be NWTRCC’s representative at the World Congress on Military and Social Spending in Berlin later this year.
• Announcements about the upcoming New England Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters and of Campaign Nonviolence’s Action Week, along with commentary on tax day actions and the recent Shut Down Creech camp.
• Ruth Benn reflects on the recent NWTRCC national gathering.
• A profile of war tax resister Margaret Weitzmann.