Unite against both evils: End U.S. support for apartheid & genocide
Stand in solidarity with this action with the power of your vote & take direct action to hold your reps accountable.
Stand against apartheid, genocide, mass death & displacement
The Bucks Stop Here!
It’s time to lock in. Let’s live our values so we can break the chains of corporate control and undo the damage it’s done.
We will reclaim our power as people.
This month’s action is just one more suggested avenue to bring us closer our shared goals. We hope it empowers our readers to walk softly and make an impact every day. We feel strongly against waiting for some future generation to solve the big problems with our systems. This is a problem we didn’t create, but we clearly see its devastating impacts and cannot continue to perpetuate it. We’re taking this direct action because for us the buck stops here, and to that end we’re doing all we can to stop the flow of money to the big businesses and oligarchs that usurp the people’s power.
Get in on the action:
- We’re prioritizing needs-based spending and reducing our consumerism.
- We will each pick our own 3 days each month to break our needs-based spending only fast but still minimize our spending in general.
- We will always shop as consciously as possible.
- We will purchase new goods primarily from small businesses and buy locally.
- We will favor credit unions over big banks and be conscientious in our banking choices.
We are ramping up our resistance as we engage more intentionally as consumers, and encouragingly, there is a lot of this in progress already. Information is readily available on who’s got billions while millions starve, and who gleefully announces they don’t want diverse and equitable systems with their company policies and monochromatic leadership teams. We will continue choosing carefully which corporations we give our dollars to, and we’ll favor supporting small businesses and credit unions instead. Focusing on needs-based spending will help redirect our dollars, and ultimately our industries, towards community care.
Forming these new habits around our consumerism and convenience levels will be hard, and we’ll all take things at our own pace. We recommend partnering with a buddy as you carefully examine and realign your spending in service of the future we’re building together. It will not be easy to consistently resist the instant gratification offered by faster shipping or access to the widest variety of options. Some of us will not have the capacity or the fortitude to participate, but many of us will. We’re hopeful that, through all our collective efforts, sacrificing luxuries in favor of retaking our government from corporate and moneyed interests will soon be seen a mark of nobility in these trying times. We must all set our sights higher and redefine our visions of success.
The everyday changes we make together will force a change in our country’s course.
Anti-Racism & Punching Nazis
As Black History month draws to a close here in the U.S. and we look back and reflect on all that we’ve learned, let’s recommit to continuous sustained direct action to bring about the changes we want to see in the world. Let's unite to resist and dethrone the neo-nazi corporate oligarchs who have taken power and force an end to our government's support of apartheid and genocide.
We mustn’t forget that according to the final numbers nearly 90 million eligible voters abstained from participating in the 2024 election, and over 3 million voters withheld their votes from apartheid-supportive presidential candidates. All told, over 168 million Americans did not vote for this current administration. We must ground ourselves in that reality and remember our collective power as a people. The power we wield when united in shared purpose is why the current power structure works so hard to keep us distracted, exhausted, and divided.
Key Takeaways
- It takes an extensive pyramid of white supremacist ideology driven violence to arrive at its peak, evidenced by genocide and ethnic cleansing.
- We must take an active anti-racism stance against every level and manifestation of this ideology in order to stop this violence. Every act of anti-racism big and small will work towards dismantling this regime.
- There are many lessons from African American history that can inform our actions as we craft our continued resistance efforts.
- There are also many anti-racist actions we can take, and among the most essential are standing against neo-nazi propaganda that promotes a monochromatic lie about America’s diverse population and standing against zionist propaganda that dehumanizes Palestinians and advocates for stealing their land.
- Another effective way to punch nazis is by hitting white supremacist oligarchs where it hurts, their wallets. We’re accomplishing this by continuing to boycott and escalating to sustained economic actions that amount to long term lifestyle changes starting in March.
- *We’re against physically punching nazis, unless one punches you first. Pacifism, except in immediate de-escalating self-defense, is at the core of our movement.
- We use the terms white supremacist, nazi, zionist, and bigot interchangeably to refer to anyone who believes they have the right to claim superiority and control over others on the basis of race, creed, color, sexuality, or gender identity. The fact that regardless of name these all manifest in the violences of discrimination, deportation, enslavement, violations of inalienable human rights, apartheid, mass incarceration, and genocide evidences the corrosive core of any such ideology.
What we’re embarking upon this year will not be easy. It will not be comfortable or convenient. But ultimately we believe it will be worth it. As many of us stand in solidarity with the National Economic Blackout on February 28th by withholding our dollars in protest of the roll-back of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, we are preparing for the continuous struggle that will lead to real change.
We will hold our leaders accountable to the people for their death-making decisions, and stand against apartheid and genocide. To our foundational war tax resistance, we’re adding the intentional practice of anti-racism this month, and ramping up for sustained economic action starting next month. Together we can build a brighter future for our country than what's in our past, and avoid repeating our history by learning from it.
Tax Strike 2025
This is direct action in service of building a better world. We must find new ways to use our power. We can redirect our funds away from apartheid and genocide and send a clear mandate to our government. Until our federal spending prioritizes funding our communities over mass death, we will exercise our rights, and resist in every way we can.
We hope you’ll join us in an act of resistance that seeks to build upon the 2024 National Tax Blackout as we advocate for our first direct act of resistance this year, a tax strike. We have the power to redirect our funds. War tax resistance is about funding the world we want to see just as much as it about defunding what we don’t want.
Proven techniques for War Tax Resistance
- Living simply to avoid federal taxes.
- Ending Interest free loans to the government by adjusting your federal tax withholding to avoid refunds.
- Self-identifying as a war tax resister to make your voice heard.
- Redirecting a portion of withheld federal taxes to direct payment programs that provide community care.
None of these are without risks. So, you should tailor this direct action for your personal situation and risk tolerance.
War Tax Resistance has been in practice for over a hundred years, but the urgency we feel today as a ceasefire fails to stop the killing in occupied Palestine is unprecedented.
The U.S. must change course and not only join the international arms embargo, but also stop shielding Israel from the consequences of its many crimes. We must hold our representatives accountable for their death-making decisions, and force our government to take a stand against apartheid and genocide.