National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC — usually pronounced "new-trick") is an American activist coalition that promotes tax resistance as a way to protest against and/or disassociate from war and militarism.
In 1982, the
Members of that group, of Conscience and Military Tax Campaign, and of Center on Law and Pacifism, among others, recognized a need to coordinate war tax resistance activities undertaken by a variety of groups in the United States. They published a legal and practical guide for war tax resistance counselors, created a list of nationwide counselors, and organized national gatherings of a diverse variety of war tax resisters.[3]
By 1985, NWTRCC had more than 60 local or regional chapters and claimed that 20,000 Americans were engaged in some form of war tax resistance.[4]
As the war tax resistance movement in the United States, which had been growing from the 1960s through the 1980s, shrank in the following decades, NWTRCC became less-focused on assisting local, regional, and sectarian war tax resistance groups, and more oriented to being a de facto national war tax resistance organization. The "coordinating committee" part of its name is something of a relic of its inception, as today there are few additional groups to coordinate.[5]
See also
References
- ISBN 9781534500655.
- ^ "War Tax Resistance Speakers' Bureau". 8 July 2015.
- ^ Vass, Kathy "NWTRCC's Previous Coordinators Share Stories" (interview)
- ISBN 9780123739858.
- ^ Bassett, Larry "NWTRCC's Previous Coordinators Share Stories" (interview)
External links
- NWTRCC — organization home page
- Death and Taxes — 30-minute film about War Tax Resisters and their motivations