Comments on: Keep it Simple – Stop Killing https://nwtrcc.org/2022/03/04/keep-it-simple-stop-killing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keep-it-simple-stop-killing Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:27:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Judy Collins https://nwtrcc.org/2022/03/04/keep-it-simple-stop-killing/#comment-2484 Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:27:46 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=13326#comment-2484 Thank you, Chrissy; this is powerful. I enclosed a copy with payment of our local telephone/DSL bill (I exclude payment of the monthly federal tax initiated decades ago to pay for militarism). Your words travel in what may be to you surprising directions.

For the almost monthly Free Fredonia Times which my husband Jim Allen publishes and distributes to about 160 by email + about 30 snail mail in this rural Alabama area, he included your holiday posting of Stevie Wonder’s “Someday at Christmas. For any who may have missed your post he noted “the original included very sexist language, with the word “men” used frequently. You have to realize the song was written in 1966. Stevie meant well. But anyway, we have removed all the men–except the very first one, which seems somewhat appropriate, after all. You can listen to the original at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHnLBBGqZXc. We learned of this different ‘Christmas Carol’ in a newsletter from the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. If you, like us, are sick and tired of over half of your taxes being spent on the military, you might want to take a look at their website: https://nwtrcc.org.” He then added info re McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches. . . .” To and through each of you, “Peace and All Goodness” during all seasons, amidst all the furies.

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