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April 5 @ 12:30 PM – Bklyn Ethical “War Tax Resistance”
Dear Friends:
Is there a better time to consider the history of War Tax Resistance? Come and hear about a direct way to say “NO!” to military programs which cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion dollars annually.
Sunday Platform at Brooklyn Ethical
April 5 @ 12:30 PM ET
265 4th Avenue @ Garfield Place
War Tax Resistance
Speaker: Ruth Benn, War Tax Resistor
Musician: Ruben Gonzalez
About the Speaker and Musician
Ruth Benn is the co-author of War Tax Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Support from the Military, published by War Resisters League (WRL). She was on the WRL staff from 1987-2000 and served as Coordinator of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee from 2003-2018. She works part time for a nonprofit in Brooklyn and is active with NYC War Resisters League.
Rubén González writes songs about people and things and things that happen to people mixing the sounds of his native Argentina with the sounds and stories of the big city inviting audiences to listen, to move, to sing along, and to think. Rubén González was invited by notorious trailblazer composer Phillip Glass to perform in his 75th birthday celebration at the Tune-In Music Festival due to its “musical ingenuity” and as “an example of new directions in music.”
To join via zoom, please register at:
https://bsec.org/events/the-april-15-dilemma-war-tax-resistance/
For more information about where your income tax money is going, visit:
https://www.warresisters.org/store/where-your-income-tax-money-is-going-fy-2027/
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