http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog IF YOU WORK FOR PEACE, STOP PAYING FOR WAR Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:30:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Posted on Salon.com, January 26, 2010. By Glenn Greenwald Administration officials announced last night that the President, in tomorrow's State of the Union address, will propose a multi-year freeze on certain domestic discretionary spending programs. This is an "initiative intended to signal his seriousness about cutting the budget deficit," officials ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2010/01/27/obama-and-the-sanctity-of-military-spending/ Posted on TomDispatch.com, October 20, 2009. Cashing in the War Dividend By Jo Comerford So you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade? . . . The tired peace dividend ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/10/21/the-joys-of-perpetual-war/ War is Not a Video Game by David Sirota I'm a video game geek, so as I sat through movie previews a few weeks ago, I was sure I was watching Nintendo ads. There on the cinema's screen was a super-sleek plane flying over a moonscape while communicating with an orbiting satellite. In ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/08/29/your-tax-dollars-at-work-war-as-a-video-game/ Posted on Google News Sheehan returns to rebuke Obama OAK BLUFFS, Massachusetts — After spending weeks dogging George W. Bush's presidential vacations, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is now trying to make life uncomfortable for President Barack Obama. Sheehan used to pitch a peace camp near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, becoming a symbol ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/08/28/cindy-sheehan-at-obamas-vacation-spot-on-marthas-vinyard/ Editorial Published in The New York Times, July 15, 2009 An unlikely alliance of senators — led by Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and including Edward Kennedy and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut — is backing an indefensible defense budget boondoggle: the wasting of $1.75 billion on ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/07/16/f-22-175-billion-boondoggle/ by Howard Zinn Published in Progressive Magazine, July 3 2009. There are things that happen in the world that are bad, and you want to do something about them. You have a just cause. But our culture is so war prone that we immediately jump from, “This is a good cause” to ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/07/11/untold-truths-about-the-american-revolution/ by Bryan Farrell Published in WIN, The Magazine of the War Resisters League, Spring 2009. As the single largest consumer of energy in the world, the U.S. military is poised at the center of two of the most life-altering issues of our time: climate change and the height of oil production ("peak ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/06/27/green-camo-seeing-through-the-militarys-new-environmentalism/ Posted on Truthdig, June 18, 2009 After the president signs a $106 billion emergency supplemental, the U.S. will have shelled out about $1 trillion in “emergency” funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—not including the Pentagon’s obscene annual budget, exponentially expanding health care costs for wounded troops, and the interest ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/06/19/congress-funds-wars-with-billions-to-spare/ Southern California War Tax Resistance 2436 Armstrong Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90039 E-Mail: scwtr@yahoo.com Joe Maizlish, (323) 252-4845, goodwork@igc.org http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/04/15/contacts/ Tweaking the notion that death and taxes are inevitable, a local group of peaceniks are withholding their tax dollars so they won’t be used for war-making, then redirecting them to groups that work for justice and peace. War tax resisters in Southern California have awarded $3100 to eleven organizations. Money ... http://so-cal-war-tax-resist.com/blog/2009/04/15/2009-grants/