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Tikkun Magazine aka Tikkun Community aka Network of Spiritual Progressives
a project of the Institute
for Labor and Mental Health
Rabbi
Michael Lerner's Tikkun.org, a well-known batch of DHIMMIs (Dupes,
Helpful Idiots, and Misguided Morons for Islamofascism) claims
to be tax-exempt but is not listed as such. It turns out, however, that
it is part of the tax-exempt Institute for Labor and Mental Health in
Berkeley (where else?) California. Tikkun has promoted civil
disobedience in contravention of IRS Rev Rule 75-384, "Activities that are illegal or contrary to public policy."
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:egXG24V4bUEJ:tikkun.org/Tikkunmail/index.cfm/action/Tikkunmail/issue/17.html+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- Join
TIKKUN COMMUNITY co-chairs Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cornel West in a
demonstration at the State Department in D.C. at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 11,
or in similar demonstrations in NYC and S.F. that same day. Sorry to
inconvenience you during the work week, but the slaughter is happening right
now. Some of us may engage in
non-violent civil disobedience (depending on whether it makes sense given
developments till that moment), others will be there to publicly support our
call for an international force to intervene immediately to separate and
protect both sides.
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Mp5HFR_5yT4J:tikkun.org/community/index.cfm/action/current_projects/article/2.html+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- One
step we need to consider to get the U.S. government to change its
policies and
support this more balanced perspective for peace and justice is to
engage in civil disobedience. Would you join us in doing so were we to
call for such a day of civil disobedience, either in your own town or
in D.C. If you
would, let us know immediately--email RabbiLerner@tikkun.org and let us
know if
you'd come to DC for such or whether you'd organize a group of people
in
your own community to participate at a local public place.
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:M5vGkU2HtzoJ:www.tikkun.org/community/spiritual_activism_conference/document.2005-04-27.5780162886+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- We must nonviolently resist attacks upon our
freedoms and what we deem to be excesses of our foreign and domestic policies.
Such nonviolent resistance would include, at the appropriate time and place, civil disobedience for which
we would accept fair legal penalties as an integral part… [Does this include revocation of your 501(c)(3) tax exemption?]
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:WI_3gljaIdcJ:tikkun.org/Tikkunmail/index.cfm/action/Tikkunmail/issue/21.html+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- We
will sponsor an annual demonstration in Washington, D.C. to demand changes in
U.S. policy in accord with the perspective outlined above. The demonstrations
we do will be totally committed to non-violence. They may contain elements of
surprise, including non-violent civil
disobedience in institutions that directly or indirectly support the
Occupation. If it becomes necessary, we will develop massive non-violent civil disobedience to
underscore our moral outrage at the Occupation and the U.S. complicity in it.
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:EfD_1PqTPiEJ:tikkun.org/Tikkunmail/index.cfm/action/Tikkunmail/issue/16.html+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- Join
us in non-violent civil
disobedience around the demand for US participation in an
international force that would separate the two sides, and restart the process
to End the Occupation. Would you
be willing to come to Washington, D.C. on a few days notice to participate?
There will be two groups: the support teams and the people submitting to arrest
in a nonviolent way. Which of the two groups would you be part of?
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:GXCL07WebOAJ:tikkun.org/Tikkunmail/index.cfm/action/Tikkunmail/issue/18.html+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- If
you can't join us for civil
disobedience demanding UN intervention, perhaps you could help us by
supporting and signing the ad below.
- http://www.tikkun.org/campus_network/ideas_for_action/view?searchterm=Politics%20of%20Meaning
- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:fvZInJeWMBYJ:tikkun.org/community/campusnet/action/index.cfm/action/action_before.html+site:tikkun.org+%22civil+disobedience%22&hl=en
- If the action involves civil disobedience—like a lockdown, or a
sit-in—you
should only notify the media on the day of the action, once all the
components
are in place. (You should also be careful to only tell people you
trust about the action details) Otherwise, word may leak out, and
security or police will be in place before you can lockdown/sit in. h
- http://triangletikkun.tikkun.org/spiritual_activism_conference/document.2005-04-27.5780162886
- "We
must nonviolently resist attacks upon our freedoms and what we deem to be
excesses of our foreign and domestic policies. Such nonviolent resistance would
include, at the appropriate time and place, civil disobedience for which we would accept fair legal penalties
as an integral part, and many other nonviolent mechanisms that have been used
with success, for example against corrupt and dictatorial regimes, in the
decades following the careers of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Some people in our Network of Spiritual
Progressives have begun to consider the possibility of Non-violent civil
disobedience in support of our spiritual politics agenda, including bringing
the troops home from Iraq, transforming American foreign policy from a
dominate-the-other to a generosity-for-the-other approach to security,
ecological sanity, support for a Global Marshall Plan, an end to US torture of
prisoners, single-payer health care, funding of programs for middle income and
the poor and rescinding of tax cuts for the rich, defense of an independent
judiciary, human rights, and separation of church & state. They are
discussing the possibility of calling for a major mobilization of spiritual
people around these themes in Washington D.C. sometime in the Spring of 2006.
The discussion is purely exploratory at this point, but there is general
agreement that sometime in the next year and a half there should be some
national activity challenging the drift of American politics by presenting an
alternative, focused through a public action of a non-violent nature,
specifically led by and framed by and for spiritual and religious people (plus
any secular friends who are open to a spiritual and non-violent focus,
non-violent both in substance and in the discourse)."
IRS REV RULE 75-384, J. ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ILLEGAL OR
CONTRARY TO PUBLIC POLICY 1985 EO CPE Text
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicj85.pdf
(1) Substantiality Test
Violation of constitutionally valid laws is inconsistent with
exemption under IRC 501(c)(3).As a matter of trust law, one of the main sources
of the general law
of charity, planned activities that
violate laws are not in furtherance of a charitable purpose." A trust
cannot be created for a purpose which is illegal. The purpose is illegal ...if
the trust tends to induce the commission of crime or if the accomplishment of
the purpose is otherwise against public policy....
(4) Planning Illegal Acts
Not only is the actual conduct of
illegal activities inconsistent with exemption, but the planning and sponsoring
of such activities are also incompatible with charity and social welfare. Rev.Rul.75-384 holds that an organization
formed to promote world peace that planned and sponsored protest demonstrations
at which members were urged to commit acts of civil disobedience did not
qualify for IRC 501(c)(3) or (4)
exemption. G.C.M.36153, dated January 31,1975, states that because planning
and sponsoring illegal acts are in themselves inconsistent with charity and
social welfare it is not necessary to determine whether illegal acts were, in
fact, committed in connection with the resulting demonstrations or whether such
a determination can be made prior to conviction of an accused. However, it is
necessary to establish that the planning and sponsorship are attributable to
the organization, if exemption is to be denied or revoked on this ground.
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