[Imc-radio] TAX DAY PICKET: WHERE IS OUR $$$ GOING?

[Clint Popetz]

This would be a great on-the-street interview oppurtunity, hapenning
tonight from 5-7 at the Mattis Post Office.  See below for more
information.  If anyone wants to record this, needs an MD recorder,
and the IMC isn't open, you can stop by the Common Ground Food Coop
(610 E Springfield) anytime today and borrow mine...

				-Clint

> A reminder that this picket will be taking place this evening..please come
> out and join us! A few details:
> 
> **If you need a ride from campus, please meet in the parking lot of
>   the Illinois Disciples Foundation (NW corner of Springfield and Wright)
>   at 4:40pm.
> **If you plan to meet us at the post office, please be aware that the
>   only close parking is across the street in the residential
>   neighborhood. (Try "Anita Ave.") Please be sure to obey parking signs!
> **If you cannot make the picket this evening, but would like more
>   information on your tax money and war, please visit the following url:
>   http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm.
> 
>    -----------------------------
>    DO NOT USE OUR MONEY FOR WAR!
>    _____________________________
>    Tax Day Picket
>    Tuesday, April 15
>    5-7pm
>    Mattis Post Office
>    2001 N Mattis Ave, Champaign
>    _____________________________
> 
> WHERE DOES OUR TAX MONEY GO?
> 
> The invasion stage of the Iraq war may be coming to a close, but now we
> face the expense of occupying and rebuilding a country we have torn
> apart, and our administration is even now planning on taking our war
> machine on an extended tour of the Middle East. Our administration not
> only refuses to listen to our opinions on their "foreign policy;" they
> expect us to pay for it.
> 
> As we approach the annual tax-payment deadline, do you know where your
> tax dollars are going? Do you know that exorbitant amounts of our taxes
> are being funneled to aid the intensifying militarism of our country and
> to the finance of foreign invasions...while at the same time, we face
> health care and public service crises in our own country?
> 
> *WE* pay the bills of this country with our money, work, and sweat, and
> we have the right and obligation to speak out against the crimes
> committed in our names, with our money, and aided by our passive acceptance.
> 
> Join members of the Champaign-Urbana peace movement at the Mattis Post
> Office at 5pm on Tax Day to educate last-minute tax-payers (and
> yourselves!) on where our money is going, and how to effectively resist
> taxes.
> 
> Organized by the Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE) and the
> Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC).
> 
> If you have any questions, please call 352-8721 or email prc at prairienet.org.