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Tax Season Is Here!
If you are somewhere between outraged and sick about all the U.S. tax money that goes to the military and to war, consider joining our public list of war tax resisters and refusers. NWTRCC has updated the War Tax Boycott website for 2012. If you are wondering how to do war tax resistance, some groups offer workshops between now and tax day, April 17, 2012. See the events list or use our contacts list to find someone in your area. If your group is doing an action about military spending and war tax resistance between now and tax day, please email the information to us and we'll post on this website.
Peace Tax Fund Bill
"We must protect conscience from war," writes Duane Shank on the Sojourners blog. The article includes links to the H.R. 1191, introduced into Congress by Rep. John Lewis (Ga.).
Being Public
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan continues her public response to the IRS demands for her taxes. After her son was killed in Iraq in 2004 she announced that she could no longer pay taxes to the U.S. government. She has found the need to respond to allies as well as the IRS. Read her blog...
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Save the Dates — NWTRCC Gathering
May 18–20, 2012 • 57th Street Meeting of Friends • Chicago, IL
Watch this space 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.
Plans are underway for our May gathering. We'll post the date and place here as soon as possible.
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.