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DESCRIPTION:The People’s Life Fund, a group of Northern California war tax resisters, 
 will grant $60,000 of re-directed tax money on Thursday, April 15, 2021, to 
 24 community based groups focused on providing essential day-to-day human 
 services, which the government does not adequately furnish, and to 
 educational or other work that identifies and seeks to change the root 
 causes of the problem.\n \nThe Fund will make these grants from 6-7:30 p.m. 
 PDT in a public online granting session that will include representatives 
 from the groups and members of the People’s Life Fund. (see list below 
 for list of recipients)\n\n"Those of us who want peace must fight on three 
 fronts: persuade our young people to refuse to enlist and fight wars, 
 refuse to pay taxes for war, protest in the streets against war and 
 militarism,” said Kathy Labriola, a war tax resister since 1978. “We 
 must also vote out of office any legislator that votes for wars."\n\nThis 
 event will complement war tax resistance protest campaigns organized across 
 the United States—from San Diego to Manhattan—on or near the 
 traditional Tax Day Thursday, April 15 and the current Extended Tax Filing 
 Day on Monday, May 17. All protests will: promote war tax resistance; call 
 for an end to the endless war on people and the environment and highlight 
 the deep flaws of the $1.5 trillion proposed Federal Fiscal Year 2022 
 budget. This budget includes funding to militarize our immigration 
 enforcement and terrorize our immigrant communities; and military spending 
 at 48% of the current federal spending with $1.7 billion dedicated to past 
 and present military expenses.\n \nIn 1971, war tax resisters in the San 
 Francisco Bay Area formed the People’s Life Fund (PLF). Since its 
 formation, PLF has made grants totaling $342,000 to community organizations 
 working for peace, social justice and a sustainable environment. In 2020, 
 PLF members redirected $32,000 in resisted war taxes to 22 social justice 
 organizations that address human service needs unmet by government agencies 
 and programs.\n[LIST OF ORGS]\nArab Film and Media Institute\nCanticle 
 Farm\nEast Bay Cohousing\nEast Bay Solidarity School\nFoodz Mutual 
 Aid\nFrailty Myths\nGill Tract Farm Coalition\nGreen Life project of Earth 
 Island Institute\nHand to Hand Self Defense Center\nKXSF.FM / San Francisco 
 Community Radio\nMovement Rights\nNorth Oakland Mutual Aid Network\nOakland 
 Print Shop\nOmni Commons Collectives\nPLACE (People Linking Art, Community, 
 Ecology)\nPrevention at the Intersections\nRestoring Justice for Indigenous 
 Peoples\nRogers & Rosewater Soup Company\nSOS -Village in Oakland\nThe 
 Berkeley Friends Church Food Pantry\nThe Refuge\nThrive Street Choir\nWe 
 Are Their Voices\nWeekend-Adventures\nYouth vs Apocalypse\nas well as the 
 National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/13/18841571.php
SUMMARY:Northern California War Tax Resisters Redirect $60,000 of Tax Money on April 15 to Groups
LOCATION:ZOOM Meeting ID: 848 6187 3552 Passcode: 739561\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/13/18841571.php
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