National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

Mainstream Media Articles on WTR

2011

Forbes online — “From The Halls of Montezuma to The Jail of Concord,” by Peter Reilly (8/7/11)

Forbes online — “IRS Feels Peace Activist’s Stubborn Ounces,” by Peter Reilly (7/30/11)

Engaging Peace — Morality and taxes (read through comments also), by Kathie Malley-Morrison (3/28/11)

Huffington Post — “Give to Uncle Sam What is Uncle Sam’s: Tax Season War Resistance” by Shane Claiborne (3/23/11)

Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Mass.) — “Sunday concert honors activist Juanita Nelson, who perseveres for long haul,” by Richie Davis (1/22/11)

2010

Seacoastonline (Portsmouth, N.H.) — “Health care, environment again top War Tax Education Penny Poll,” by Joshua Clark (4/16/10)

Daily Kos — “If you work for peace, stop payring for war,” by RandomNonviolence (4/15/10)

Religion Dispatches Magazine (San Francisco, Calif.) — “Taxes, War, and Religion: Queering the 1040,” by Susan Henking (4/14/10)

2009

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) — “Panel examines ‘war tax resistance’” by Ryan Poe (10/25/09)

Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.) — “Centenary celebration to recall peace activist [Wally Nelson]” (3/24/09)

Denver Post (Denver, Col.) — “Quaker physician spent time in jail for tax protest [Arthur Evans]” (3/24/09)

Mennonite Weekly Review (Newton, Kan.) — “War-tax resisters seek to owe nothing but love” by Susan Miller Balzer (2/16/09)

Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.) — “Tempered reaction: Tax-resister Juanita Nelson skeptical” by Richie Davis (1/21/09)

2008

Berkeley Daily Planet (Berkeley, Calif.) — “The Noble American Tradition of Tax Resistance,” by Gar Smith (4/11/08)

Utne Reader (Minneapolis, Minn.) — “Heartland: I Won’t Pay My Taxes If You Won’t Pay Yours,” by Nina Rothschild Utne (Jan/Feb 2008)

2007

Associated Press (via Common Dreams) — “Fed Up with War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes,” by John Christoffersen (7/4/07)

Brooklyn Eagle (Brooklyn, N.Y.) — “Brooklyn Tax Protester Owes Gov’t $70,000 — And He’s Proud of It” (4/23/07)

The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) — “Increasingly, war tax resisters defy IRS in protest over Iraq” by Wayne Woolley (4/16/07) [via Common Dreams]

Home News Tribune (Middlesex, N.J.) — “War foe says his piece with tax boycott” by Rebecca Lerner (4/8/07)

San Francisco Chronicle  (San Francisco, Calif.) —  “The tax bucks stop here: Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq” by Pia Sarkar (4/3/07)

SmartMoney — “Skipping Tax Bill Is One Way Some Are Protesting Iraq War” by Aleksandra Todorova (3/21/07)

Columbia News Service (New York, N.Y.) — “Conscientious tax resisters say they won’t fund war” by Deena Guzder (2/27/07)

2005

The NewStandard (Syracuse, N.Y.) — “Anti-War Activists Promote ‘Tax Resistance’ as Direct Protest” by Martha Baskin (4/12/05) [The NewStandard ceased publishing in 2007, but as of 2010 articles continue to be available online]

2004

The American Sentimentalist (Chicago, IL) — “War tax resisters balk at paying for American militarism” by Mark W. Anderson (4/4/04) [and May 2004 Z magazine]

Brattleboro Reformer (Brattleboro, Vt.) — “Local War Tax Resister Follows His Conscience” by Carolyn Lorie (4/12/04) [via Common Dreams]

St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Fl.) — “Protesting war, a few dollars at a time” by Aaron Sharockman (4/15/04)

Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) — “War protesters close federal building” by Heather MacDonald (4/16/04)

AFP (New York, N.Y.) — “Activists Urge Tax Payers to Withhold Money to Protest Iraq” (4/16/04)

2003

Brattleboro Reformer (Brattleboro, Vt.) — “Area demonstrators urge tax resistance” by Eesha Williams (3/25/03)

Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.) — “Protests target Uncle Sam’s wallet” by Will Evans (4/2/03)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder (Milwaukee, Wis.) — “Tax Protesters Report More Interest since War Began” by Scott Williams (4/7/03)

Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.) — “Tax Statement: Some War Protesters Withhold Payments to IRS” by Roselyn Tantraphol (4/13/03)

Gannett New Service (Washington, D.C.) — “War-tax resisters refuse to pony up for bullets, bombs, guns” by Greg Barrett (4/14/03)

Associated Press (via Truth-Out.org) — “Some Peace Activists Won’t Pay Fed Taxes” by Krista Larson (4/16/03)

New York Times (New York, N.Y.) — “U.S. Sues Quaker Group Over Taxes” (7/27/03) [and Philadelphia Inquirer — “‘War-tax’ protest prompts U.S. suit” by Joseph A. Slobodzian (7/23/03)]

2002

New York Times (New York, N.Y.) — “War Resisters: ‘We Won’t Go’ to ‘We Won’t Pay’ ” by Feclicia R. Lee (8/3/03)

1972

Time Magazine (New York, N.Y.) — “The Law: The War Tax Protesters” (6/19/72)