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A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Contents include:

• my report on the International Conference in Bogotá last month
• Julian Forth on tax resistance and symbolic protest
• notes on a seeming IRS capitulation in the Cindy Sheehan case, the prospects for war tax resistance communities, and the scoop on Social Security levies
• ideas and actions such as marching war tax resisters in Austin, next Fall’s New England Regional Gathering, and a call for more fraud in military spending
• news about the upcoming May NWTRCC national gathering in Asheville, North Carolina
• Ruth Benn on “60 billion reasons to act”

The August issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is now on-line, with contents including:

• Perspectives on whether or not to pay the “social security tax” by Ruth Benn, myself, Susan Miller, and Larry Dansinger
• Notes about an especially aggressive IRS levy of Social Security payments, and about the agency’s retreat from its overzealous infliction of “frivolous filing” penalties on people who added messages of protest to their tax forms
• Reviews of Brayton Shanley’s The Many Sides of Peace: Christian Nonviolence, the Contemplative Life, and Sustainable Living and Rosalie G. Riegle’s Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community
• A note about an Independence Day war tax protest at which IRS forms went up in flames, and about pioneering war tax resister Juanita Nelson’s 90^th birthday
• Some resources that would be appropriate for the upcoming “Nuclear Free Future Month”
• News about the upcoming NWTRCC national gathering and the New England Gathering of War Tax Resisters
• A profile of war tax resister Cathy Deppe

There’s a new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter out. Contents include:

• Ruth Benn reports back from the Fall 2013 NWTRCC national gathering in New York City
• remembering the recently departed war tax resister Sallie Marx
• some notes on how war tax resisters are approaching the new legal landscape of Obamacare
• Conscience U.K. explains their campaign to allow conscientious objectors to contribute to nonviolent national security solutions
• notes on the recent New England gathering and on some other war tax resistance actions around the country
• a profile of resister Ruby Phillips