I’m not a Christian. I gave up celebrating Christmas for myself a number of years ago. However, I do have friends and family members who continue to celebrate Christmas. I’m also a war tax resister and around this time of year I start thinking about redistributing whatever’s left of my resisted tax […]
From WarTaxBoycott.org:
Over the past year, peace activists have voted, lobbied, marched, and taken direct action to end the war in Iraq. Courageous soldiers have refused to fight the war. But Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to continue the war and appears ready to authorize a future military attack on Iran. It’s time for […]
Read Riverbend at Baghdad Burning on the cover-up of the rape of Sabrine al Janabi. I followed a link from Heart at Women’s Space and found this:
”She might just be the bravest Iraqi woman ever. Everyone knows American forces and Iraqi security forces are raping women (and men), but this is possibly the first […]
As it has for so many of my radical feminist blogging colleagues, time has suddenly become quite scarce. What with classes intensifying, prepping my new apartment for habitation, trying to earn a living and maintain relationships with the people I love, I haven’t been able to justify setting aside the time to write anything […]
It’s official; over $9000 of my money has NOT gone to pay for war. I’ve done my part to reduce military spending; no missiles will be purchased, no airplanes developed, no bombs produced, no women and children raped or terrorized or burned out of their homes or burned out of their bodies or dismembered […]
Here are some excerpts from an interview with Julia Butterfly Hill by Daniel Woodham, appearing in the February 2006 issue of More than a paycheck, the newsletter of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. Speaking about her experiences with war tax resistance:
I started out cautious. I was not so much concerned for […]
“The analysis of feminist tax resistance recognizes that violence exists in many forms besides war and in many spheres beyond the military. Our experiences as women oppressed by a (hetero)sexist society ha[ve] taught us a great deal about the many forms of violence. ‘We know more about violence,’ Andrea Dworkin writes, ‘than any […]
It’s tax frenzy week, and since I haven’t blogged in a while, I thought I’d post my letter from 2003, when I originally decided to engage in war tax resistance. I’m writing a new letter for this year, so I’ll put that up on Friday to celebrate the day itself. Oh, and BTW, […]
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