Articles on war tax resistance and the 2008 war tax boycott:
2008 War Tax Boycott Redirected over $325,000 from War to Peace
War tax resisters met in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend of May 2-4, 2008, and held a press conference at the Greater Birmingham Ministries in downtown Birmingham on May 3. Antor Ndep from the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans was on hand to accept checks and pledges for $50,329.61. Staff members of Direct Aid Iraq who provide health and support services to Iraq Refugees joined the press conference with a live internet hook up. DAI received $44,396.46 and expressed their gratitude for money that was taken from war to care for people. Over 500 people around the U.S. joined the war tax boycott and gave another $232,000 to humanitarian programs of their choice, including food banks, programs for the homeless, books for prisoners, environmental projects, peace groups, and hundreds of other nonprofit organizations.
News story on the War Tax Boycott press conference (May
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| The press conference with the Jordanian staff of DAI on screen with live internet communication. Photo by Ruth Benn. | Antor Ndep, Executive Director of Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans, is pleased to accept contributions for their health care to Katrina survivors. Photo by David Gross. |
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| Bill Ramsey, Boycott Organizer from St. Louis, speaks with a local TV station. Photo by David Gross. | Checks redirecting tax dollars from war to peace. |
Articles about war tax resisters and resistance
Why We Resist by
Chris Hedges
“The refusal to pay my taxes if we go to war with Iran, and
the portion of my taxes spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…”
- Why I’m a War Tax Resister by Eric Volpe
- “I am a war tax resister. I refuse to pay at least some of my federal taxes. Why? Because after years of examining the way things are…”
- Personally Defunding the War by Meteor Blades
- “We won’t wait anymore. Since Congress, particularly the congressional leadership, refuses to do so, my wife and I are personally defunding the war and occupation of Iraq…”
- How are we as Christians engaged in the world? by Abbie Coburn
- “I struggle with being an Episcopalian. I struggle with the priorities of what seems to me to too often be an antiquated, hierarchal structure…”
- Don’t Buy Bush’s War by Jodie Evans
- “How much of your tax payment this year would you like to allocate for waterboarding in Iraq or an invasion of Iran?…”
- No Taxes for War, The Nation Magazine blog
- “More and more Americans are fed up with watching their tax dollars support the greatest foreign policy disaster of our time…”
- Heartland: I Won’t Pay My Taxes If You Won’t Pay Yours by Nina Rothschild Utne
- “War tax resistance is far from a new idea. But there is a bold initiative brewing that has an elegantly simple new angle…”
- Hands Off Iran by Chris Hedges
- “I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture…”
