Activists in dozens of cities worldwide will protest military spending this week, including at U.S. post offices, army bases and the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service. An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 U.S. citizens will also refuse to pay all or certain parts of their federal taxes to protest military spending

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Ruth Benn of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee told teleSUR she‘s seeing increased interest in antiwar organizing in the United States, despite the distraction of a presidential election. Military spending hovers at about 45 percent of federal income tax, she noted, rising sharply under President Barack Obama’s watch in 2010 and 2011 and falling slightly since.