The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is holding its National Strategy Conference in Brooklyn .
Committed peace and justice activists are converging on Brooklyn (NY) , for a national strategy conference to broaden the network of people who refuse to pay for war. The purpose of the conference will be to develop more effective and creative methods of war tax refusal in order to extend its reach in the United States, while providing additional support for existing individuals and groups across the country deeply engaged in war tax resistance. If more people refuse to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this will tighten the screws of nonviolent resistance against the U.S. war machine.
We will critically look at strategies and campaigns that have worked well in the past and what we can do to improve them. We will brainstorm new ideas and techniques. We will see what can be done to encourage other constituencies to adopt this tactic for their communities. We will identify the roadblocks to resistance (e.g., fear of the IRS) and attempt to address them. And we will celebrate our ability to take away the government’s control of how our tax money is spent.
We hope you will join us!
I won’t be able to make it , but I’ll keep an eye out for reports of goings-on at the conference and will report any interesting developments here.
