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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 …
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FALL 2010 EVENTS
October 2, 2010 – One Nation Working Together rally and demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in DC. Peace groups are organizing an antiwar contingent — see One Nation for Peace. Join other war tax resisters in DC. Please contact the NWTRCC office if you are planning to attend, and we can march together. (It’s Gandhi’s birthday too!)
October 7 – Ninth year of war and occupation in Afghanistan. Local actions. Don’t forget to take war tax resistance materials to local actions. Click on the Resources button.
October 22-24 – NWTRCC literature will be available at a table at the Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking,"Experiments with Truth" in Memphis, TN. Conference info....
November 5-7 – NWTRCC gathering and New England War Tax Resistance gathering. Details...
November 19-21 – School of the Americas Watch vigil and civil disobedience. NWTRCC will have a table, so look for us there or if you can help, please contact the NWTRCC office.
No Money for Nukes
The workshop “1040-Over and Out – Ways and Means of Defunding the War Machine” was one of many offered at the July 4 weekend gathering “Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future” held at Maryville College in Tennessee. Coleman Smith and Clare Hanrahan, NWTRCC network activists from Asheville, NC, tabled at the event and facilitated the workshop. Karl Meyer of Nashville Greenlands and Daniel Sicken of Pioneer Valley WTR added their considerable experience to the session. Numerous other war tax resisters were present throughout the weekend, which drew over 200 seasoned activists from throughout the country to commemorate 30 years of nuclear resistance and to honor the work of NukeWatch, The Nuclear Resister, and the Plowshares Movement. The event was hosted by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, a Knoxville-based organization that has been providing education and resistance to the Y-12 nuclear bomb plant in Oak Ridge for 22 years. Thirty-seven were arrested at the July 5 action at the Y-12 bomb plant; 23 on state charges of obstructing a roadway and 14 on federal charges of trespass for crossing over the barbed wire enclosing the bomb plant grounds. For more information about the Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future weekend see the Nuclear Resister.
Frank Donnelly
Letters can be sent to: Francis Donnelly, 01787-036, Unit E, Federal Correctional Institute Camp, PO Box 699, Estill, SC 29918
For the most recent articles written as Frank reported to
prison camp, see our Aug./Sept. 2010 newsletter.
Press Release: Donnelly Sentenced
June 15, 2010
Contact: Larry Dansinger, Maine War Tax Resource Center
(207) 525-7776 or rosc@psouth.net.
About 40-50 people rallied in Bangor, Maine, in support of war tax resister Frank Donnelly on June 14, 2010. Donnelly, who had pled guilty in 2009 to tax fraud, appeared in court and was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. He will begin serving the sentence in late July, 2010.
Frank Donnelly is not a typical war tax resister, most of whom try to express their values of nonviolence directly to the IRS. Some send letters to the IRS, some fill out a return but do not pay, and some don't file at all.
Donnelly knew he could not pay for war, but he did that by under- reporting his income. The IRS interpreted that as tax fraud and prosecuted him in federal criminal court.
His statement to the court was simple; he declared that he should have presented his war tax resistance differently, more openly. But, he was clear his refusal to pay sprung from his opposition to all wars.
The rally included a brief statement by Donnelly to several TV and radio stations and the local daily newspaper. He then went into the court house amid shouts of support. The rally continued with comments by Patrick O'Neill, a long-time friend of Donnelly's who is a war tax resister from North Carolina, Maine War Tax Resistance Resource Center coordinator Larry Dansinger, and other supporters.
See also:
Bangor Daily News
WCHS6 online
Click here for Dec. 2009 article about Frank Donnelly’s case in More Than A Paycheck
- Reports from Tax Day 2010 (April 16+, 2010)
- Plans for Tax Day 2010 (Apr. 2010)
- WTR Speakers’ Bureau (Feb. 2009)
- WRL’s Tax Piechart available
WRL’s
Piechart Available on Web
The War Resisters League’s analysis of the President’s fiscal year 2011 budget, “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes” is now available online. The site also has a downloadable PDF. An online Spanish version is also available.