NWTRCC News

Attention Teachers!

If you teach Thoreau or want to inspire classroom discussions about the change possible through nonviolent action and civil disobedience, consider using NWTRCC’s new teaching packet. Click here for more information about NWTRCC’s new study guide and kit, “Thoreau and His Heirs.”

Fall Events

Join war tax resisters in DC, Boston, Tennessee, Georgia — and at local actions. More info…

WTRs Report to Prison

Read about the case of Carlos Steward, who headed to Federal Prison Camp on August 6, 2010. His address is at the end of the article.

On July 26, Frank Donnelly reported to federal prison to begin serving a year sentence for charges related to his refusal to pay for war.… Read more …

Mainstream Media Articles on WTR

2010

Seacoastonline (Portsmouth, NH) — "Health care, environment again top War Tax Education Penny Poll," by Joshua Clark (4/16/10)

Religion Dispatches Magazine (San Francisco, CA) — "Taxes, War, and Religion: Queering the 1040," by Susan Henking (4/14/10)

2009

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) — "Panel examines 'war tax resistance' " by Ryan Poe (10/25/09)

Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.) — “Centenary celebration to recall peace activist [Wally Nelson]” (3/24/09)

Denver Post (Denver, Colo.) — “Quaker physician spent time in jail for tax protest [Arthur Evans]” (3/24/09)

Mennonite Weekly Review (Newton, Kan.) — “War-tax resisters seek to owe nothing but love” by Susan Miller Balzer (2/16/09)

Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.) — “Tempered reaction: Tax-resister Juanita Nelson skeptical” by Richie Davis (1/21/09)

2008

Berkeley Daily Planet (Berkeley, Calif.) — "The Noble American Tradition of Tax Resistance," by Gar Smith (4/11/08)

Utne Reader (Minneapolis, MN) — "Heartland: I Won't Pay My Taxes If You Won't Pay Yours," by Nina Rothschild Utne (Jan/Feb 2008)

2007

Associated Press (via Common Dreams) — "Fed Up with War, Some Won't Pay Taxes," by John Christoffersen (7/4/07)

Brooklyn Eagle (Brooklyn, NY) — "Brooklyn Tax Protester Owes Gov't $70,000 — And He's Proud of It" (4/23/07)

Home News Tribune (Middlesex, NJ) — "War foe says his piece with tax boycott" by Rebecca Lerner (4/8/07)

San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, Calif.) — "The tax bucks stop here: Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq" by Pia Sarkar (4/3/07)

SmartMoney — "Skipping Tax Bill Is One Way Some Are Protesting Iraq War" by Aleksandra Todorova (3/21/07)

Columbia News Service (New York, NY) — "Conscientious tax resisters say they won’t fund war" by Deena Guzder (2/27/07)

2005

The NewStandard (Syracuse, NY) — "Anti-War Activists Promote 'Tax Resistance' as Direct Protest" by Martha Baskin (4/12/05) [The NewStandard ceased publishing in 2007, but as of 2010 articles continue to be available online]

2003

New York Times (New York, NY) — "U.S. Sues Quaker Group Over Taxes" (7/27/03)

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