Category Archives: war tax resistance

We Can’t Forget

Posted on August 23, 2021 by soitgoes1984

We are believers we’ve placed full faith in a magic that uses words to transform chaos into the norm human beings into disposable things buildings into rubble life into death (by drone) bodies into ash (and bone) cultures into terror … Continue reading →

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Medicine Not Bombs

Posted on March 25, 2020 by soitgoes1984

They say we are at war but if this were a war we have left our soldiers without bullets and combat boots if this were a war we have left our airmen without bombs and jet fuel if this were … Continue reading →

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Connected

Posted on September 11, 2019 by soitgoes1984

I wish I saw the Wallflowers at the Hartford Meadows on the twelfth of September eighteen years ago. I used to love The Wallflowers and my mom bought tickets for my 17th birthday and I waited all summer long and … Continue reading →

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Manifesto, A Poem

Posted on August 10, 2019 by soitgoes1984

Some people believe so strongly in the ideologies they were either raised with, or found in some other way but they believe so strongly that they’re willing to lay down their life for their ideology even if they can start to … Continue reading →

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The Ignorant American: Professional Courtesy to the GEO Group

Posted on July 14, 2019 by soitgoes1984

(Music by Toby Keith) American girls and American guys will always look the other way when black and brown folks die or when they see a baby crying in the hands of the feds left to sleep on the cold … Continue reading →

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I Drove A Car Last Night

Posted on June 11, 2019 by soitgoes1984

*WARNING*GRAPHIC CONTENT* (This poem is about cruelty to animals. This is sadly a true story. The police are not providing animal control services, though they get county funding to do so. There is a small understaffed & underfunded nonprofit clinic … Continue reading →

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Nonviolent Resistance

Posted on June 9, 2019 by soitgoes1984

They taught us that the only way  to nonviolently resist  is to compliantly persist , to exist in silence and burn candles  while they burn villages, to wave banners  while they waive human rights. DO NOT BOYCOTT  DO NOT DIVEST  … Continue reading →

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Same Parade

Posted on May 26, 2019 by soitgoes1984

The best way you can  honor our departed sons, daughters, brothers, and  sisters is to become a  war-tax resister, don’t pay to send any more  of our loved ones off to war don’t buy the bullets, the bombs, and the … Continue reading →

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Haiku For Mossadegh

Posted on May 18, 2019 by soitgoes1984

Get your hand out of  your piggy bank or we’ll crush  you with your own tank

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Protecting Mosques

Posted on May 17, 2019 by soitgoes1984

Using American tax dollars  to provide security  to protect mosques in America  will not be  nearly as effective  at protecting mosques  as not using American tax dollars  to provide bombs  to blow up mosques around the world  would be.

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