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Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Records

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
DG.239
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)
Language:
English, French, German, and Italian
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Records (DG 239), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1981-2008 (bulk)
Creator:
Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia, Pearson, Ed, Stevens, Carolyn, and Conscience & Military Tax Campaign-U.S
Abstract:
This collection includes correspondence (1981-1985), administrative files, financial records, minutes of Board of Directors' meetings (1990-2008), and publicity materials. Much of the correspondence is to, or from, Ed Pearson, a founder and National Coordinator of CMTC. The collection includes information about international war tax resistance efforts, nonviolent direct action campaigns, and grants made from interest on the escrow account.

The Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia (NACC) began in 1979 in Bellport, New York under the name Conscience and Military Tax Campaign-U.S., (with the "s" in "Conscience" sometimes replace with a dollar sign). CMTC worked to assert U.S. taxpayers' rights of conscience, "to support those who refuse to pay for war and preparations for war, and who wish for their taxes to be used only for peaceful, life-affirming purposes." CMTC provided legal support to war tax resisters, and established an escrow account for the resisters to deposit funds, in the event that the Internal Revenue Service would garnish their wages or levy their bank accounts. Interest on the escrow account was used to make grants to support war tax resistance and to promote projects working for peace and social justice. CMTC published the Conscience & Military Tax Campaign Newsletter from ca. 1980 through 1995. The organization moved from Bellport, New York to Seattle, Washington in Spring, 1986. In 1995, CMTC changed its name to the Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia, and though war tax resistance remained its primary focus, it broadened its agenda to use "nonviolent action to create political and social change...and to build a society based upon community, economic justice, environmental awareness, personal empowerment, and feminist, queer-positive, and anti-racist principles." Its newsletter was renamed Nonviolent Action in 1995. NACC is affiliated with the War Resisters League and the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.

This collection contains various records from the Conscience & Military Tax Campaign-U.S and the later Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia.

This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which it was donated.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.

Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia.

This collection remains unprocessed and in the order in which it was processed. This finding aid was created by Declan White in May 2011.

Items removed: posters, newsletters, and a sticker.

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright to the Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia records created by the organization has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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None.

Collection Inventory

Correspondence, 1981-1983.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, A, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, B, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, C, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, D, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, E-F, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, G, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, H, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, I-J, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, K, 1984.
Box DG 239: 1
Correspondence, L, 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, M [folder 1], 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, M [folder 2], 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, N-P, 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, Q-R, 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, S [folder 1], 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, S [folder 2], 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, T-Z [folder 1], 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, T-Z [folder 2], 1984.
Box DG 239: 2
Correspondence, A, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, B, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, C, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, D, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, E-F, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, G, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, H, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, I-K, 1985.
Box DG 239: 3
Correspondence, L, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, M-N, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, 0-Q, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, R, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, S, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, T, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, Wa-Wh, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Correspondence, Wi-Z, 1985.
Box DG 239: 4
Australia.
Box DG 239: 5
Belgium.
Box DG 239: 5
Canada.
Box DG 239: 5
England.
Box DG 239: 5
Egypt.
Box DG 239: 5
France.
Box DG 239: 5
Federal Republic of Germany.
Box DG 239: 5
Bombay Friendship Center, Bombay, India.
Box DG 239: 5
Japan.
Box DG 239: 5
New Zealand.
Box DG 239: 5
Italy.
Box DG 239: 5
Spain.
Box DG 239: 5
Sri Lanka.
Box DG 239: 5
Switzerland.
Box DG 239: 5
USSR.
Box DG 239: 5
West Germany.
Box DG 239: 5
International Translators.
Box DG 239: 5
Foreign Embassies in the US.
Box DG 239: 5
Pour une Politique de Paix Active, Switzerland.
Box DG 239: 5
Translators.
Box DG 239: 5
International.
Box DG 239: 5
Resources/Information [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 6
Resources/Information [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 6
Conscience and Military Taxation Campaign Board Guidelines and Job Descriptions.
Box DG 239: 6
Tax Day Actions (Press, Flyers, etc.) [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 6
Tax Day Actions (Press, Flyers, etc.) [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 6
Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Grants.
Box DG 239: 6
Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia-Current.
Box DG 239: 6
World Trade Organization.
Box DG 239: 6
War Resister League/ War Tax Resister's Task Force.
Box DG 239: 6
War Resister League/Draft Task Force.
Box DG 239: 6
Nonviolent Action Cascadia Community Events [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 6
Nonviolent Action Cascadia Community Events [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 6
War Tax Resister Correspondence.
Box DG 239: 6
Conscience and Military Taxation Campaign Background.
Box DG 239: 6
Military Conscientious Objector Fundraising Project.
Box DG 239: 6
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee-Current.
Box DG 239: 6
Conscience and Military Taxation Campaign Resources [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 6
Conscience and Military Taxation Campaign Resources [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 6
Board Minutes, 1990.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1991.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1992.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1993.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1994.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1995.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1996.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1997.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1998.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 1999.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2000.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2001.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2002.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2003.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2004.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2005.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2006.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2007.
Box DG 239: 7
Board Minutes, 2008.
Box DG 239: 7
Listening Project [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 8
Listening Project [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 8
Youth Peace.
Box DG 239: 8
Tax Season, 1994.
Box DG 239: 8
Tax Season, 1990-1993.
Box DG 239: 8
Resist Grant.
Box DG 239: 8
Local War Tax Resisters, 1982-1989.
Box DG 239: 8
I.R.S. Forms and Publications.
Box DG 239: 8
The Draft [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 8
The Draft [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 8
Minutes/Miscellaneous [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 8
Minutes/Miscellaneous [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 8
Minutes/Miscellaneous [folder 3].
Box DG 239: 8
Minutes/Miscellaneous.
Box DG 239: 9
War Tax Resisters Resources [folder 1].
Box DG 239: 9
War Tax Resisters Resources [folder 2].
Box DG 239: 9
War Tax Resisters Resources [folder 3].
Box DG 239: 9
War Tax Resisters Resources [folder 4].
Box DG 239: 9
War Tax Resisters Protests/Workshops.
Box DG 239: 9
World Peace Tax Fund.
Box DG 239: 9
War Tax Resister News Articles.
Box DG 239: 9
Press.
Box DG 239: 9
Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia (miscellaneous).
Box DG 239: 9
Con$cience and Military Tax Campaign Collected Records.
Box DG 239: 9
Con$cience and Military Tax Campaign, (1980-1994 (circa)).
Box DG 239: 9
Con$cience and Military Tax Campaign, Tax Packet, 1985-.
Box DG 239: 9

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