By Em Jacoby Last night, like many Sunday nights, my household of five headed to the near South Side of Chicago to partake in a community meal program with wraparound services for those experiencing food and housing insecurity. The weather recently turned from oppressive heat and humidity to cool rain. It had rained relentlessly for… Continue reading
Our next War Tax Resistance 101 on Zoom will be Saturday, September 26 at 12p Eastern/ 9a Pacific. It is sponsored by NWTRCC & Pace e Bene’s WTR Affinity Group. Registration is here. Our next National War Tax Resistance Conference in person will be in Las Vegas, Nevada (November 6-8, 2026). More info here. We… Continue reading
[Editor’s Note: NWTRCC does not endorse any political party, but we do report and share about war tax resistance. NWTRCC Coordinator Lincoln Rice recently had a conversation with Kymone Freeman, who is the Green Party candidate running for the US House Non-Voting Delegate for the District of Columbia. The following was conversation between Kymone Freeman and… Continue reading
By Susan Van Haitsma Do war tax resistance and gardening often go together? In my observation, yes! Many of the people I’ve met through NWTRCC over the years have cultivated not only peace and justice with their life work—they have cultivated the soil, too. Longtime war tax resister, Clare Hanrahan, is one such “avant-gardener,” as… Continue reading
The IRS was already struggling with a deficit in staff and funds before the pandemic, but the pandemic accentuated these problems. They slowly recovered with extra funding and staffing during the Biden administration… only to suffer devastating cuts to staff and funding shortly after Trump took office for the second time. The remaining IRS staff… Continue reading
By Suzanne Belote Shanley and Brayton Shanley We resist paying taxes for war used to kill our country’s enemies, because as Christians, Jesus commands us to love our enemies. We resist paying taxes for war because war is a lethal, murderous sacrilege, a wanton killing of God’s gift of human life which threatens all life… Continue reading
NWTRCC’s May 2026 conference on Zoom attracted about 100 participants. Friday evening featured two half-hour sessions where participants could socialize in small groups based on themes offered during registration. We then separated into breakout rooms with themes suggested by participants during registration. One session was a bit more formalized and featured Socialist Washington State congressional… Continue reading
April 15, 2026 Dear IRS, This year, just as we were preparing to pay our taxes, the President of the United States launched a reckless war against Iran, without a clear justification or objective and without Congressional approval. Within the first 24 hours of this horrible misadventure, our country had fired a missile at an… Continue reading
By H. A. Penner Kathy Boylan invited me to speak at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker about war tax resistance for their March 6th clarification of thought. Around 30 persons were present. The group was composed of both young and old. The best part of the evening was the extensive and engaging group dialogue! There… Continue reading
11/30/2023 01/06/2026 Office of the IRS I have been trying to write this letter for the better part of a year two and a half years. I have spent that time nearly daily reaching out to my elected representatives through multiple channels; while receiving less than a dozen form letter responses, clearly copy-pasted between the… Continue reading
To commemorate the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, we will host a War Tax Resistance 101 on Zoom on Tuesday January 20th at 8p Eastern / 5p Pacific. Choose Democracy’s National Tax Strike will also be joining us for this session. Interest in war tax resistance continues to increase in the wake of ICE violence,… Continue reading
For the first time in two years, we held our twice-yearly war tax resistance conference in person. We are very thankful to Patricia Kirkpatrick, an AdComm member in Worcester, who was a local organizer and hosted several attendees in her family’s home. Our conference events on Friday and Saturday were held at the Worcester Friends… Continue reading