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A Positive Public Face of the Act of Conscience

One component of conscientious war tax refusal can be a commitment to redirect the resisted taxes to projects that conform with your conscience and that serve the common good. This redirection can be a positive public face of the act of conscience. When redirection is done with others, the amount redirected can be significant both to the recipient groups and as a direct action model for shifting federal spending from war to the needs of people.

The 2008 War Tax Boycott campaign is recommending two redirection projects for your consideration:

• Electronic Iraq’s Direct Aid Initiative (DAI) provides Iraqi refugees in Jordan and Syria with medical care. If you choose to donate your resisted taxes to DAI, your check should be made out to: MECCS/DAI* and mailed to MECCS/DAI, PO Box 382425, Cambridge, MA 02238.
  • Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society (MECCS) serves as the financial sponsor of DAI.
    Contributions to DAI through MECCS are tax-deductible
• Common Ground Heath Clinic (CGHC) in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans provides health care to Katrina survivors. CGHC is attempting to replace services that no longer exist and to be a new model of free, neighborhood-based preventive care. If you choose to donate your resisted taxes to CGHC, your check should be made out to: Common Ground Health Clinic* and mailed to Common Ground Health Clinic, 1400 Teche Street, New Orleans, LA 70114.
  • Contributions to CGHC are tax-deductible

If you choose to redirect your resisted taxes to another project, please report the amount and the recipient to the 2008 War Tax Boycott, PO Box 150553, Brooklyn, NY 11215 or to nwtrcc@nwtrcc.org, so that it can be included in the total amount of redirection contributions generated by this campaign.

War Tax Redirection Coupon

If you choose to redirect to DAI or CGHC, please enclose a redirection coupon like the one to the right with your donation so that these recipients will add your donation to the total redirection contribution to these projects.

We plan to make our collective redirection as public as possible.