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
The headlines seem hard to navigate these days; change not just day to day but within the day. It has been difficult to keep track of all the different agencies getting cut, Health and Human Services this week, Education last week and FEMA while witnessing a new catastrophe weekly as a result of the climate… 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
By Karl Meyer I see two alternative visions that I call War Tax Protest and Resistance and War Tax Refusal. I distinguish these two basic approaches by an analogy with the behavior of electrical energy. Copper is a material that allows, but resists, the passage of electric currents. The process of resistance generates heat and… Continue reading
By Fay Salichou [Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published on the website of Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War in the United Kingdom. A recording of the session can be found below.] On 3rd May 2025, we took part in a powerful global conversation hosted by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee… Continue reading