Speaking of NWTRCC’s information clearinghouse, they’ve just posted a list of “Tax Day” protest actions planned in the United States this year.
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 → 2005
NWTRCC has turned their list of protests into a nice press release:
In at least 50 communities across the U.S., demonstrations will be held at Internal Revenue Service offices, Federal buildings, post offices, and other public places on , to protest the use of tax dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these events will include people giving their tax dollars to community groups instead of to the IRS.
Among the actions will be a War Breaks the Budget Tax Day Protest in Tulsa, OK; a Death & Taxes Resistance Festival in Andover, MA; demonstrators will be hanging signs demanding “No Money for War” from the Burnside Bridge during the morning rush in Portland, OR; while others will be out in the evening until the midnight sharing coffee with last-minute filers at post offices in White Plains, NY, and Manchester, NH, and handing out flyers showing where income tax money goes.
Still other protests are making the connections with corporate profiteering from war: “You Pay; Lockheed Martin Profit$” is the slogan for protests in Valley Forge, PA; and taxpayers at the main Baltimore City post office will find mailboxes labeled Halliburton, Bechtel, and Lockheed Martin to mail their checks straight to the corporations.…
Read the complete release for more information and for a coast-to-coast list of U.S. actions.
Meanwhile, the War Resisters League is going straight to the IRS office in New York for its protest. “WRL members and supporters will be vigiling and handing out fliers advocating nonpayment of federal taxes as a protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The NYC People’s Life Fund will also donate war tax-resisted money to two community groups.”
More news:
In Portland, Oregon, war tax resisters braved the morning chill to hold up “Burma Shave” style signs along the roadside for people to read as they passed by on :
$ SIX BILLION A MONTH
AND DEATH EVERY DAY
DON’T LIKE THE WAR?
THEN REFUSE TO PAY
INSTEAD OF BOMBS
LET’S USE THE TAX
TO FEED MORE KIDS
OURS & IRAQ’S
And here’s some late-breaking protest news from around the country:
- Tax-Resisting Couple Draw Federal Wrath — War tax resisters Charlie Hurst and Maria Smith of Cleveland hold back 50% of their taxes and the IRS seize their money, their car and part of their paychecks.
- Stop War Taxes Demonstration at the IRS — Pictures of protesters who met up at the IRS headquarters in New York City on to picket and pamphlet.
- We Fresno WILPF women highlight big tax $$$ for war — a very California protest.
- Halliburton Event — Houston protesters in top hats surround a mock mailbox painted up with the Halliburton logo and thank taxpayers for their generous donations.
- Resistance against War Taxes in Portsmouth NH — “[O]n the right side a member of the Libertarian party was protesting and on the left side a number of members of Seacoast Peace Response were organized. But both had the same objective of raising the awareness of the public about federal income taxes and both agreed that we the people presently have taxation with illegal corporate representation.”
- Bringing the War Home to the Taxpayers — Protesters in Oregon make sure that the last-minute filers there knew what they were paying for.
