National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund

Submitted by StevenDavison on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 2:42pm

About the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund and our Representatives

Contact Information

2121 Decatur Pl. NW,
Washington DC 20008
www.peacetaxfund.org

The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF) is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to pass legislation that would establish a way for conscientious objectors to channel their taxes into nonmilitary purposes.

Doctrine of Discovery

Submitted by StevenDavison on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 2:06pm

Introduction

In 2012, New York Yearly meeting's Indian Affairs Committee brought to the Yearly Meeting a minute of conscience for the body's approval that repudiated the so-called Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a principle of international law that orginiated with papal bulls issued in the late 15th and early 16th centuries that granted "Christian princes" sovereignty over the lands being "discovered" in the New World and over its indigenous peoples.