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Tax Season Is Here!
If you are somewhere between outraged and sick about all the U.S. tax money that goes to the military and to war, consider joining our public list of war tax resisters and refusers. NWTRCC has updated the War Tax Boycott website for 2012. If you are wondering how to do war tax resistance, some groups offer workshops between now and tax day, April 17, 2012. See the events list or use our contacts list to find someone in your area. If your group is doing an action about military spending and war tax resistance between now and tax day, please email the information to us and we’ll post on this website.
Peace Tax Fund Bill
“We must protect conscience from war,” writes Duane Shank on the Sojourners blog. The article includes links to the H.R. 1191, introduced into Congress by Rep. John Lewis (Ga.).
Being Public
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan continues her public response to the IRS demands for her taxes. After her son was killed in Iraq in 2004 she announced that she could no longer pay taxes to the U.S. government. She has found the need to respond to allies as well as the IRS. Read her blog…
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War Tax Resistance Speakers Bureau
Bill Ramsey
Bill Ramsey is the founder and sole operator of the Human Rights Action Service (HRAS) based in St. Louis. As an independent researcher/writer he provides a monthly Buyer’s Guide to Human Rights and a Media Watch on human rights and sends letters responding to specific human rights violations for over 300 HRAS subscribers.
Bill is a founder and coordinator of St. Louis Justice and Peace Shares, a collaborative effort among seven small St. Louis organizations working for nonviolent social change. Bill is a member of the Core Group of the Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America, a participant in the St. Louis Instead of War Coalition, a member of the St. Louis Covenant Community of War Tax Resistance, and a founding member of the Catholic Action Network for Social Justice. He is a member of St. Cronan Catholic Church in St. Louis.
The movements that Bill has participated in and helped to organize over the past 30 years include movements to: end the Vietnam War, foster conscience objection to war, secure rights for farm workers, abolish nuclear weapons, end Apartheid in South Africa, provide sanctuary for Central American refugees, halt U.S. military intervention in Central America, abolish the death penalty, prevent and halt the Gulf War (1991) and the Iraq War (2003), attain political asylum for Haitian refugees, create peace in Bosnia, resolve the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, lift economic sanctions on Iraq and halt sweatshops and child labor practices by U.S. corporations.
Bill has a long history with war tax resistance, which he began during the Vietnam War. After an arrest for leafleting at the IRS in 1992, he was given an unusual probation requirement to pay all his taxes. This led to many creative actions, a 30-day jail sentence for violating his probation, and his continued conscientious refusal to pay for war to this day. Over the years Bill’s articles on war tax refusal and redirection have appeared in a number of journals.
He worked for the American Friends Service Committee from 1975-80 in High Point, NC and Atlanta, GA and from 1981-97 in St. Louis. In 1980-81 he worked on a St. Louis Economic Conversion Project research project funded by the Ford Foundation. His commentaries and analysis of U.S. foreign policy, human rights issues, news coverage have been published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis Journalism Review. He is married and the father of five children. He is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and High Point College in North Carolina.