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 …

NEXT NWTRCC GATHERING:

November 2010 • Boston/Cambridge

Mark Your Calendar for the next NWTRCC gathering, which will be held in conjunction with the 25th Annual New England Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters

Friday-Saturday, November 5 & 6, 2010
at Cambridge Friends Meeting
5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Sunday, November 7, 2010
at Encuentro5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor,
Boston, MA, 02111
(Food will be provided by Pacifeast Caterers)

Click here for more information

NWTRCC in Tucson, May 2010

jack speaking in garden Jack Cohen-Joppa (left), one of our hosts and co-editor of Nuclear Resister, tells participants during the weekend gathering in Tucson about activism in Tucson. We also learned about border issues and discussed the new Arizona immigration law. Speakers at the session on immigration were Dan Millis, with the Sierra Club Borderlands project, who was the first of 15 or so humanitarians who map of desert deaths were cited with littering for leaving water for migrants in the desert on Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge; Rev. Gene Lefebvre, co-founder of No More Deaths; and, Rachel Winch, a volunteer delegation leader with Borderlinks. A map showed the location of deaths in the desert, along with water stations set out for those crossing. Plenty of time was spent on war tax resistance, but we also heard about the Disarm Now! actions in New York City in May.

NWTRCC Gathering and Meeting
Cleveland, OH
Nov. 7-9, 2009

Veterans for Peace National President Mike Ferner (blue shirt) and attorney Phil Althouse, right, spoke to the gathering about their work and making connections with war tax resisters. For more on their talks see the “Making Connections”. Also pictured (l to r) Joffre Stewart, Maria Smith, and Ruth Benn. Photo by David Gross.

For more photos and impressions from the gathering, see David Gross’s blog.

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