There are many ways you can get involved in the campaign. Whether you have 5 minutes or 5 hours to spare we could use your help. Here's how you can get involved...
Use our brand new display materials to help raise awareness of peace tax and the taxes spent on the military. Use the display at events or conferences you attend so others can learn about the issue. The display consists of three sections - peace tax, human rights and non-military security - consisting of five pages each.
Simply download and print the sections (A4 colour but can be printed black and white and/or enlarged to A3) or send them to a friend to use.
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One of the easiest ways you can spread the word is by arranging for our leaflet to be included in the mailing or newsletter of a local group with which you are involved. Likely groups include overseas development, fair trade, environmental, human rights and LETS (local exchange and trading schemes) groups. Local libraries, community centres, places of worship and health food shops may also allow you to leave some leaflets but please ask before you do so. You can also give leaflets to your family, friends and colleagues of course.
Talking to people about the issue of paying tax for war is one of the easiest and most effective ways of helping . Perhaps you are involved in a local group which would be interested in discussing the Peace Tax issue. There are clear points of contact with those concerned about ethical investment, human rights and peace. The issue is also relevant to a wide variety of religious and political groups.
If military spending or activity crops up in the news, you can write to the local or national press connecting it to the peace tax issue. Newspapers are unlikely to print a lengthy explanation of the campaign, but it is worth signing yourself as a member of . Remember to be brief, refer to a particular news event and, if possible, say something witty or original. Please send us a copy of any letters that get printed.
We can provide campaign materials for you to use on a stall at a fair, festival, community event etc.
Make yourselves visible and attract attention: get a local celebrity or MP to sign a petition, display a banner, invite the press, wave your £10 note leaflets and get Peace Tax Returns signed.
We can supply you with all the campaign materials you need: £10 note leaflets, enlarged A3 size £10 notes, stickers, Peace Tax Returns, and paper banners. Just get in touch with the office.
Why not get a few friends together or join with a local peace, human rights or faith group and stage your own local demonstration? There does not need to be many of you - the important thing is to be seen, be heard and be peaceful. Outside your local tax office may be a good location or outside court if someone in your area is in court for war tax resistance.
We can supply the materials you are likely to need.
is controlled by its members. The Executive Committee, our policy-making and governing body, meets four times a year and is appointed annually by the membership. If you would like to find out more about getting involved in the Executive, please contact us.
We need volunteers in the office on a regular basis, and occasional help to organise our annual event. If you live in London and can get to Archway, North London to offer us your help for a few hours with mailings or other office tasks please contact us.
Travel costs within London may be available for reimbursement - please talk to us about this.
If you have any professional expertise you can offer on an ad hoc and pro bono basis please contact us. We would particularly like to hear from people with a legal background, people with database expertise and anyone with experience of working with the press.
Perhaps you have professional contacts that could be particularly useful outlets for our ideas and materials - senior union officials or journalists, for example, if sympathetic to our message could help us tremendously.
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