For a limited time if you donate $100 or more, NWTRCC will send you the War Tax Resister’s Guidebook written by Ruth Benn and Ed Hedemann. The newest edition of the guidebook, published by the War Resisters League, has updated information on changes in IRS policies over the decades. The comprehensive Guidebook addresses many questions… Continue reading
Ironically, it is often people who have served in the military and have experienced firsthand the banality and brutality of mindless obedience who come to question and then reject external authority over their own internal ethical decisions. (“Brian Willson and the Problem of Obedience” by Dana Visalli) Heading into the Memorial Day weekend it seems… 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
W-4 in the Digital Age and Private Collection Letters Adjusting a W-4 form through an online portal was a new WTR counseling question for me. Many of us longtime WTR counselors still rely on printed materials, so thanks to the counselee who introduced me to the online ADP system, the payroll service their company uses…. Continue reading
Editors Note this piece was writen by Paul Popinchalk and first appeared in The Catholic Radical, January 2025 a publication of the Worcester Catholic Worker that will be helping host the NWTRCC November 7-9 Conference. Paul will be speaking on a panel on resistance along with Claire Schaeffer-Duffy a member of the Saints Francis &… Continue reading
By Susan Miller President Trump has finally made a proclamation that I agree with. By renaming the Department of Defense, he tells the truth about what the department has been all along: a Department of War. I don’t believe that any of the wars that the United States has engaged in during my lifetime have… Continue reading
Today’s exciting topic is…..drum roll….capital gains! Ok, I admit it. I know very little about capital gains, but it is a question that has come up recently in WTR counseling, particularly among older antiwar activists. Many have had a low income and been glad to avoid paying for war. Suddenly a gift or inheritance drops… Continue reading
The recent NWTRCC Outreach meeting began with talking about peaches and how sweet they were this year in some parts of the country. Cathy Deppe was the first to arrive. When asked why she looked so aglow, she responded that it was because she got to meet with all of us on that day…. Continue reading
It’s hard to concentrate on day-to-day tasks of late. What with the weather, projects piling up around the house, worrying about the present and future, worrying I’m not doing enough, worrying that whatever I do is so minor in the face of it all… I’ve been to the U.S. Mission to the UN a few… Continue reading
By Tim Godshall When I first learned of WTR in my teenage years, I was smitten. Growing up in the Mennonite church, in which pacifism is a key part of church doctrine, I learned about our history of conscientious objectors who refused to fight in previous wars. Since the U.S. military draft ended a few… Continue reading
In a recent Boston Globe column (“Resisting Trump: The Revival of Tax Protest,” April 10), Alex Beam points to a time-honored way of resisting violence and war: refusing to pay for it. He highlights the activism of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts, and central to that activism were Juanita and Wally Nelson, two peace… Continue reading
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” One of the greatest opening lines. Are we there, 41 years later? In real life, 1984 was a year during Reagan’s presidency, and a lot of us thought we might be headed into the book’s vision of dystopia at that time. Or… Continue reading