About Us

The "Our Taxes, Our Lives" campaign has been sent up by ministry for peace * whose aim is to set up structures in government, e.g. a Ministry for Peace, that would work to reduce violence.   Violence takes many forms – from the physical damage of bombs and beatings to the blood and guts of video games.  The campaign identifies three related aspects of violence.  Direct violence is physical or verbal violence, of a type most people recognise.  Structural violence refers to political, social and economic structures that repress, harm or kill, examples include dictatorship, gender, racial, disability and other forms of discrimination and global poverty.  Cultural violence is the name given to those aspects of a culture that normalise violence – religions and ideologies that condone direct violence, for example, or films that show the use of extreme violence to ‘resolve’ conflicts.  The challenge for government is to tackle all three aspects of violence together.

Massive public expenditure cuts constitute structural violence hence this initiative to explore with the wider public whether, following the General Election, our taxes will be spent in ways that will benefit our lives or damage them.   

 
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