Mark Rylance Photo: Courtesy of Conscience
Oscar winner boosts Conscience campaign
Conscience taxes for campaign booted
by Tara Craig
12th August 2016
The campaign for the right to allocate taxes to nonviolent peacebuilding rather than to military spend received a big boost last week when Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance pledged his support.
Rylance, one of the leading Shakespearean actors of the age, has given his backing to the campaign run by the campaigning organisation Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War.
On Tuesday 19 July Quaker Ruth Cadbury, the MP for Brentford and Isleworth, tabled a ten-minute Rule Motion in Parliament proposing the extension of the right of conscientious objection to military spending into the taxation system.
The Bill was read without objection and is scheduled for a second reading on 2 December.
