It looks like the gathering will be in Chicago, in the hopes of coordinating with the protests that will be taking place there in when NATO and the G-8 hold their meetings there.
Charles Carney reflects on his conversion to war tax resistance, partially motivated by the war tax resistance of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen in .
I have been able to divert over $100,000 away from the Boeings and the Halliburtons of the world to the Oxfams and Amnesty Internationals and Physicians for Social Responsibility and Harvesters of the world.
It all started for me with that very liberating idea of unilateral disarmament.
What a freeing thing to be able to lay down my sword and shield.
What a freeing thing to tell the government, to tell the military-industrial complex, to tell Wall Street: “No you can’t have my money.
All my checks will be written out to the people.
All my checks will be written out to the 99 percent; no more checks written out to the 1 percent.”
Notes about the IRS policy on salary levies and on employers who are willing to work with resisters to help them resist such levies, on banks versus credit unions, and on the effectiveness of scary letters from the IRS.
Information about the upcoming International Conference of War Tax Resisters and Peace Tax Campaigns, on the European Court of Human Rights case for conscientious objection to military taxation being pursued by Roy Prockter, and on a new director for the American peace tax fund promoting group.
A report from the 26th annual New England Regional Gathering of War Tax Resisters.
Ed Hedemann’s proposal for “zombie war tax resistance,” in which he suggests that resisters prefill war-tax-refusing tax returns for several years in the future, and leave instructions for people to file them each year after your death.
“Why concede the ‘death’ part in that old saying about certainty?
Why give the government a break from having to deal with your resistance when you die?
What if there were a way to continue war tax resistance from the grave?”
An update on the case of imprisoned war tax resister Carlos Steward.
Notes on the new minimum income tax-free income levels, techniques for avoiding bank account levies, and how much of your money you can legally give away without IRS complications
International news including an article by the late Spanish war tax resister Pedro Otaduy
Action ideas including an outreach letter to community radio, a new blog, another war tax resistance legal appeal, and an election day penny poll
NWTRCC news including an announcement of the next national gathering (Chicago ), the new home of our email discussion list, a hunt for nominees to join the Administrative Committee, and a follow-up on those arrested in the civil disobedience action during the last national gathering in Kansas City
Beth Seberger tells how she became a war tax resister and why
The new blog mentioned above is MathewCh5v9, featuring writing by war tax resister Vickie Aldrich, largely reviewing letters from her father from when he was in a Civilian Public Service camp for drafted conscientious objectors during World War Ⅱ.
She has also addressed her own conscientious objection — war tax resistance — in some posts:
“An inspector at the Fresno IRS noticed a package in the mail room with a suspicious odor. … The Fresno PD Bomb squad was called in and the contents inside the package were an unknown type of feces.”
was the Spring national
gathering of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. It was
held in Chicago and deliberately timed to coincide with the
NATO meeting there and its attendant protests.
I was not at the gathering this time, and notes from attendees are just
starting to trickle in, so I don’t have much to report yet on the business of
the gathering — with one exception:
NWTRCC has accepted my application to be its representative at
’s International Conference of War Tax
Resisters and Peace Tax Campaigns which is scheduled to be held in Bogotá,
Colombia in .
I’m of course very excited about this opportunity to share with and learn from
the international war tax resistance community (and maybe to meet in person
some of the activists whom I have been following from afar). I plan to spend
the intervening time working on my Spanish so as not to be the stereotypical
unilingual American at the conference.
Clare Hanrahan’s tax day speech:
“We must stop supporting this system of destruction.
Not merely because it is immoral and unjust, but because it is illegal — according to International Law.”
counseling notes — Congress considers revoking passports from tax delinquents, the IRS struggles to cope with a flood of tax fraud, and Ed Hedemann suggests low-income tax resisters inflate the numbers on their income tax statements so they have something to resist.
international news — tax resistance in Spain, and a new nonviolent campaign guide from War Resisters’ International
legal news — updates on the Frank Donnelly and Cindy Sheehan cases
action reports and photos
reports from the NWTRCC national gathering in Chicago
