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NWTRCC News
May 18–20, Chicago
Protest the NATO Summit and participate in the next war tax resistance gathering!
April 19 Cindy Sheehan Hearing in U.S. Court
Cindy Sheehan argued in U.S. District Court in Sacramento that she has First and Fifth Amendment rights not to answer IRS questions about her assets.… Read more…
Tax Day Action Reports
Photos and reports from around the country of 2012 Tax Day and pre-tax day actions. It was a busy day, coinciding with the Global Day of Action on Military Spending and events around the world. Nearly 300 people have made their war tax resistance/refusal public this year as part of the War Tax Boycott. Many occupiers and unions were out to demand that the corporations and the rich pay their fair share — we add "Not for War!"
Julia Butterfly Hill
“On Activism, Tax Resistance, and What She Learned from a Thousand-Year-Old Redwood” — Read The Sun article
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NWTRCC Gathering
May 18–20, 2012
57th Street Friends Meeting • Chicago, Ill.
Gathering begins Friday, 6 p.m.
WTR contingent at NATO protests on Sunday* afternoon
Business Meeting — Sunday 9 a.m. — Meetings end by noon, demonstration ends late afternoon
*The protest has been shifted to Sunday afternoon. Be flexible with your travel if possible to stay through late afternoon on Sunday.
National War Tax Resistance is meeting in Chicago to coincide with the protests around the NATO meeting in Chicago at the same time.(G8 was moved to Camp David.) Friday night will be an open discsusion about war tax resistance organizing. Saturday and Sunday schedule will focus on organizational business and strategizing, rather than also offering more general war tax resistance workshops. We will participate in the protest and rally whenever it happens, and expect to have a table and outreach materials available at that event. All are welcome to join us!
Plan your travel now. Click here for more information and registrations materials.
Plant Peace — Resist War Taxes!
National War Tax Resistance Gathering
November 4–6, 2011 • Kansas City, Kan.
Thanks to our Kansas City hosts! We had a great gathering and ended it with a demonstration at the new nuclear parts plant being built in Kansas City, Mo. We are grateful to the First Central Church of the Brethren in K.C., Kan., for hosting the gathering Friday and Saturday, and to Beth Seberger, pictured left, for hosting the Sunday meeting at her home. 
The other key organizers, l to r, are Ann Suellentrop, Charles Carney, and Jane Stoever. Another local organizer, Ron Faust, led a poetic and informative workshop (right) telling his story and reading from his book of poetry, Prophetic Poetry.
Click here for PeaceWorks, Kansas City, December 2011 newsletter
Click here for Susan Miller’s article (with more links and photos).
Click here for more photos.
Click here for National Catholic Reporter article and photos by Robyn Haas.
Gathering, May 6–8, 2011 • Berkeley-Oakland, Calif.
Thanks to the organizing committee (l to r) David Gross, Susan Quinlan, Alice Green, Larry Harper, Eszter Freeman, and Jay Sordean (and Jon Marley, not in photo) for a great gathering, drawing participants from the area and from Oregon, Georgia, Maine, New York, Kansas, Illinois, and Missouri. Our hosts were from Northern California War Tax Resistance and Sonoma County Taxes for Peace, and we really appreciate all the work they did to make the weekend a success. Click here for a write up and links to notes from various sessions and workshops, including on Teaching Thoreau, Homebrewing, Confrontational WTR, New Priorities Network, and more!
NWTRCC in Cambridge and Boston, November 6–8, 2010
Cambridge Friends Meeting hosted the Friday and Saturday sessions of the 25th annual New England Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters. NWTRCC’s fall gathering and business meeting were held in conjunction, and it was such a great weekend that all the folks pictured were still there after lunch on Sunday. Our Sunday meetings were held at Encuentro 5, a fine office and organizing space for activists organizations in central Boston. For more on the weekend, click for a newsletter report from the NWTRCC business meeting, full minutes, and notes from sessions on taxable income/low income resistance and anti-war stories.
Or, read about the Friday evening panel and Nov. 7 and Nov. 8 sessions on The Picket Line blog.
NWTRCC in Tucson, May 2010
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
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, Ohio
November 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.