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Don Timmerman and Roberta Thurstin found a special spot to pose during the Tax Day Vigil and Civil Disobedience at the U.S. Army Reserve Base in Milwaukee. The vigil was sponsored by Milwaukee War Tax Resistance and Casa Maria Catholic Worker with Peace Action-Wisconsin and Welfare Warriors. Photo courtesy of Casa Maria Catholic Worker.

A penny poll and leafleting were held on Tax Day in downtown Portland, Maine, sponsored by the Maine WTR Resource Center. More than a dozen communities in Maine along with some college campuses hosted tables and leafleting from late March through Tax Day. The effort was coordinated by the Resource Center. Photo by Ginny Schneider.

Redirecting war taxes to the Ultimate Reentry Opportunity in Ithaca, New York, (l to r) Cathy Currier, Edwin Santiago, unidentified,, Khalil Bey, Phoebe Brown, Todd Saddler, Neil Golder with Puccini, Mary Loehr, and Leslie Schultz.

On Easter Sunday, April 16, the Southern California War Tax Resistance and Alternative Fund (SCWTR) redirected $6,000 in resisted war taxes to six local peace and justice organizations. The Redirection was held at the site of Arlington West, a project of Veterans for Peace, where crosses are placed to mark the deaths of U.S. military members in Iraq. Pictured (l to r), SCWTAF members Joe Maizlish and Frances Schneider-Liau talk with Phillip Lester, who represented the Youth Justice Coalition, which received a grant. Lester also placed a memorial cross for Christopher Murphy, a 30-year-old veteran of the Afghanistan War, who committed suicide just a few months ago in Concord, Massachusetts. Photo by Deppe/Walker.

Northern California War Tax Resistance with their banner promoting W-4 resistance. They marched in the April 15 Tax March-San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Susan Quinlan.

Climate Changed: Movin’ and Shakin’
Esther Kisamore personed the literature corner during the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission annual meeting on January 28. The evening started off with a little and levity from Colorado Springs’ own First Strike Theatre performing a new post- , “Climate Changed: Movin’ and Shakin’.” The show highlighted “some of the dark turns being taken re inclusion, environmental integrity, racial justice, militarism, women’s rights…and encouraged folks to ‘vote with our feet, vote every day, frequent movin and shakin will get us on our way’,” says Mary Sprunger-Froese of the First Strike Theatre. Photo by Mary Lynn Sheetz.

Courtesy of Kayla Starr, starbotanicals.com