National Gatherings
International Conferences
Regional and Local Events — Workshops, meetings, conferences
Webinars – WTR 101 and more
National Gatherings and Coordinating Committee Meetings
NWTRCC sponsors two gatherings each year, usually over the first full weekends in November and May. Each national gathering (normally) starts with dinner on Friday and includes a mini-conference format on Friday evening and all day Saturday with panel discussions, action reports and analysis, how-to workshops, and strategy discussions. NWTRCC’s business meeting is held on Sunday morning. The gathering is open to everyone with an interest in war tax resistance. The location shifts regionally in the U.S. depending on invitations from local host groups.
National War Tax Resistance Gathering & Coordinating Committee Meeting
in Las Vegas
Join us at the Las Vegas Catholic Worker for our fall conference. The program is still being determined, but the conference will begin on Friday evening and include panels and workshops on Saturday morning and afternoon. As usual, we will have our business meeting on Sunday. Some of the sessions will also be streamed online.
Program & Schedule (Coming Soon!)
Register here (Coming Soon!)
*** Reports and Photo Links from Previous National Gatherings ***
May 1-3, 2026 • Zoom
Minutes from business meeting • NWTRCC Conference Report by Lincoln Rice
November 7-9, 2025 • Worcester, Massachusetts
Minutes from business meeting • NWTRCC Conference Report by Lincoln Rice
May 2-4, 2025 • Online Conference
Minutes from business meeting • Resisting Taxes in the Trump Era session
Regional and Local Events • War Tax Resistance Workshops and More
Watch this space for workshops and events in your area, or if you are planning a workshop or action in your area email the information, and we’ll list it here. If you would like to schedule a workshop or presentation for a group, please use the linked form.
- War Tax Resistance 101 on Zoom (Thursday July 23 at 8p Eastern). Register here.
- War Tax Resistance Films – Showing in Portland, Oregon (Tue. June 23 @ 5p) at Albina Library, 255 NE Russell St: Free showings of 2 documentaries: “Death and Taxes” and “An Act of Conscience”; Discussion will follow each film. For more information, contact https://www.instagram.com/ocpeacefund/
- War Tax Resistance Session at Agape Community’s Francis Day celebration (Sat. October 3) in Hardwick, Massachusetts. For more information, https://agapecommunity.org/events/
Always available on YouTube — view yourself or with a group!
War Tax Resistance 101 with Lincoln Rice – August 2025
W-4 Resistance with Lincoln Rice – Spring 2025
Redirecting Taxes to Black, Brown, and Indigenous Resistance with Sam Koplinka-Loehr (Feb. 25, 2017)
Please be in touch with the NWTRCC office if you are willing to table or hand out some war tax resistance materials at an event near you or a conference that you are attending. We will ship you literature for the table and may be able to help pay the conference fees. Just ask!
International Conferences
18th International Conference of War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns
Organized by Conscience and Peace Tax International, this conference will take in Brussels, Belgium the weekend of September 4-6, 2026. This conference will include talks, discussions, and a recreational period on the Sunday afternoon. If they can organize it, they will also offer a meeting with MEPs at the European Parliament on the Monday. There is also a Zoom registration option. For more information, go to https://www.peacetaxinternational.org/node/1484.
The first International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns was held in Tübingen, Germany, in 1986. Conferences were held every-other-year, most often in Europe with a few exceptions: India in 1998; U.S. in 2000; and Colombia in 2013. While the conferences are organized by the local groups, Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI) was founded at the conference in Hondarribia, Spain, in 1994, to connect the groups working on legislative campaigns and to track legal issues internationally. The CPTI website includes reports from earlier conferences, links to groups, court documents, and more. After the 2013 conference, CPTI moved from Belgium to England, and the reorganization put conference organizing on hold until this year.
Cathy Deppe (right) holds a Ban Uranium Weapons banner in front of the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, September 2016.
In 2016 representatives from many of the groups that attended the international conferences met at the World Congress on Military and Social Spending in Berlin, Germany, which was sponsored by the International Peace Bureau. NWTRCC’s representative Cathy Deppe participated in the conference and public demonstrations, tabled for NWTRCC, and joined members of Conscience and Peace Tax International for a workshop about military spending and peace tax campaigns. served as to the congress. Read her report.
NWTRCC has sent a representative to each meeting, and reports appear in our newsletter.