Death and Taxes vs. Life and War Tax Resistance

A recent study shows that more than 40 percent of every income tax dollar in 2007 went towards military spending. We speak with Pat and John Schwiebert, a Portland couple who have refused to pay their taxes for the past thirty years to protest military spending.





Meet 28 people who offer their motivations for and methods of resisting the war machine.




She sat 2 years in an ancient redwood and now fights taxation that funds war. Julia Butterfly HIll is a heroine for all times. War Resistors League event. Camera: Paula Gloria.




National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is an activist group that promotes tax resistance as a way to protest against and/or disassociate from war and militarism. http://www.nwtrcc.org/ (Christopher Dimitrov, Jared Ingster, Antonella Lentini)