Pastors for Peace Close to Losing Tax Exempt Status Courtesy of IRS Assault

[Judi Lynn]

Pastors for Peace Close to Losing Tax Exempt Status Courtesy of IRS Assault
September 2, 2016
by W. T. Whitney

Gail Walker is the executive director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace with offices in New York City. In an interview she gave which appeared August 29 as the lead posting on the prominent Cuban website Cubadebate.cu, Walker described apparent U. S. government persecution of the human- rights organization founded and headed by Rev. Lucius Walker, Gail Walker’s father, who died in 2010. In fact, the U.S. government over the course of five years has moved toward removing the tax-exempt and non-profit status Pastors for Peace and its parent organization IFCO have enjoyed since IFCO’s founding in 1967.

Introducing Walker, journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde noted that, “In spite of the many times attempts were made at the Mexican border to block its humanitarian cargo on the way to Cuba, Pastors for Peace has maintained its caravans to Cuba uninterruptedly since 1992, including during the darkest years of the Bush administration.”

She reported that Pastors for Peace “yellow buses” still travel the streets of Cuban cities and that “hospitals and schools [in Cuba] have benefited for years” from aid brought on those buses to Cuba. Pastors of Peace volunteers traveling on the buses through the United States have informed “people about the consequences of sanctions directed at making the Cuban people surrender through a lack of food and medicines.”

Bringing their humanitarian aid material to Cuba, riders on the buses violated U.S. rules governing the blockade. They did so purposefully as a matter of civil disobedience.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/pastors-for-peace-close-to-losing-tax-exempt-status-courtesy-of-irs-assault/

[Igel]

1. They should publish the letters the IRS has sent them.

Full disclosure, and all that.

If they have, PM me. Otherwise, it's all "they don't have any reason to, unless it's because we're so good and the US government is so bad."

Or perhaps breaking US law is enough, but then that's what the IRS would say. Either way, when somebody tells me what their enemy has against them I seldom expect them to be fair to their bitter enemy and honest with regard to themselves.

[roody]

3. Here is their website.

https://ifconews.org

[Judi Lynn]

5. "Bitter enemy." Apparently you should know more about this organization.

I don't think they should fit into your category of "bitter enemy" commie-loving leftists.

Take time to find out what you are reviling first.

[LakeArenal]

2. All Churches should lose tax exempt status

[roody]

4. It's not a church.

https://ifconews.org
This is their website.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Thank you, roody, for posting the link. I thought of it earlier, then got distracted.

It's downright odd that even with the crap the Bush regime threw at them, nothing like this happened until President Obama's close to moving on from his current job.

Really very disappointing to see this low blow dealt to some real peacemakers.