Earth Quaker Action Team
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EQAT is Quaker Friends and friends of friends, working today to build a just and sustainable economy through nonviolent direct action. www.eqat.org
📣 Our new report finds that the Trump admin’s energy + AI “dominance” policies + hostility to renewables will make it even harder for working families to afford their energy bills. Thanks to Trump, the wholesale price of fossil gas could DOUBLE over the next decade, outpacing inflation every year.
Check out this video of our action at Vanguard along with @risestjames.bsky.social, @afsc-org.bsky.social, and a letter signed by 30,188 of you. If you couldn't join us that day, you can feel as if you were there with us! 📹 by @ctcsky.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fhp...
Petition to Vanguard - Stop Bankrolling Polluters
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Why is Michael excited about where EQAT's going? It's our focus on training in these times. Hear about how we build people, leaders, and community for the long haul, and then help us offer much-needed and free trainings by donating at secure.everyaction.com/ff3fcrWPHUmX...
In heat emergencies, we know what we gotta do! 👀 July 15: collective action -- demand change for a better future 👀
Greenpeace USA@greenpeaceusa.bsky.social · last mo.Climate disasters are here. We can decide how prepared we are. Join Greenpeace USA for a FREE, three-part virtual webinar series focused on giving you tools and strategies to help you prepare for extreme weather. 🗓️ Wednesdays in July @ 5 – 6 pm PST 📣 RSVP: www.mobilize.us/greenpeace/e...
That time when we tried to deliver a letter signed by 30,188 people, organized by @foeus.bsky.social, only for a Vanguard rep to say they couldn't take it... So then we mailed it to CEO Salim Ramji and CIO Greg Davis! 📹 by @ctcsky.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/vLUj2...
Vanguard - We'd Love To Meet With You
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Together, we're fighting for equality, air quality, and quality living, as Nolan from CRCQL talked about when we went to Vanguard. Hear what he has to say about "confidants, constituents, and comrades" at www.youtube.com/shorts/liFOE... 📹 by @ctcsky.bsky.social
Vanguard - We Are All Fighting For Quality of Living
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For Dwight, former board member and friend of EQAT, participating in EQAT has been about getting to the root of our collective purpose and vision. Listen to what Dwight has to say and then please donate any amount to support EQAT's work into the future! secure.everyaction.com/ff3fcrWPHUmX...
We went to Vanguard headquarters during its annual employee celebration to make some noise! We wanted to make sure employees hear that now's the time for Vanguard to invest in a future we can all celebrate. Read all about it: www.mychesco.com/a/news/socia... (1/3)
We greeted Vanguard employees arriving to their annual “Partnership Day” celebration. With our voices and our instruments, we expressed: Vanguard’s investments are actively harming communities and ecosystems. (1/3) 📷 by Rachael Warriner
Anna, co-clerk of EQAT's board, has really been on her learning edge, as we call it! Listen to her share about how EQAT supported her to push herself, and then, if you can, please support EQAT's work of developing volunteers' skills at secure.everyaction.com/ff3fcrWPHUmX...
Outside of petrochem investor, Vanguard, Jack from @risestjames.bsky.social painted a picture of what it's like living close to petrochem plants -- like, polluting flares and pressurized pipelines dangerously close to elementary schools. 📹 by @ctcsky.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JulW...
Vanguard - Let's Talk Investment
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We went to Vanguard with @afsc-org.bsky.social, @risestjames.bsky.social, and more friends to call on the asset manager to turn its ship around from toxic investor to truly responsible steward of its customers’ futures. 📹 by @ctcsky.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYq...
Vanguard - We'd Like to Talk
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On Thurs 6/11, 12 - 2pm, we're going to Vanguard HQ to make some noise. We want to make sure employees hear that now's the time for Vanguard to invest in a future we can all celebrate.
🪧 Happy Earth Week! 🪧 Enjoy the Trees 🪧 Meanwhile... 🪧 Vanguard Fuels Climate Crises! 🪧 eqat.org/never-vanguard This is what drivers saw on a series of signs as they passed through the neighborhood of Vanguard President and CIO, Greg Davis, and approached beautiful Chanticleer Garden.
If you've been thinking of applying but haven't gotten around to it yet, now's a great time! Applications submitted through this Sunday will receive full consideration. See original post for more information and the link to apply.
Earth Quaker Action Team@eqat.bsky.social · 4mo agoEQAT is hiring! We’re looking for a Campaign Director to lead our volunteer teams to be as powerful as possible in our spirit-led campaigning. Full-time, Philly region, base salary of $72,000 per year + benefits. Applications submitted by April 12th will receive full consideration.
Vanguard is the #1 toxic investor, investing $182 billion in 34 major petrochemical expansion projects in the U.S. 💸 As this research was being released nationally and shared in a press conference in TX, we went to Vanguard’s HQ in PA to bring the research and our demands to its front door.
@breakfreefromplastic.org, @ciel.org, @foeus.bsky.social, and @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social released new research that Vanguard invests $182 billion in 34 major petrochemical expansion projects, which are expected to emit 98,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually! 🤢
EQAT is hiring! We’re looking for a Campaign Director to lead our volunteer teams to be as powerful as possible in our spirit-led campaigning. Full-time, Philly region, base salary of $72,000 per year + benefits. Applications submitted by April 12th will receive full consideration.
This action comes right after people proteste #CERAWeek conference in Houston, saying enough to fossil fuels corporations and their financial enablers, like Vanguard. A report released by @foeus.bsky.social shows that Vanguard is #1 investor in 34 key petrochemical expansion projects in the US.
Earth Quaker Action Team@eqat.bsky.social · 4mo agoYesterday we delivered a letter, with 30,188 signatures, calling on Vanguard to start investing responsibly. We were joined by @afsc-org.bsky.social, LA’s @risestjames.bsky.social and PA’s CRCQL, who shared how Vanguard’s investments are poisoning their air and making their communities sick
Yesterday we delivered a letter, with 30,188 signatures, calling on Vanguard to start investing responsibly. We were joined by @afsc-org.bsky.social, LA’s @risestjames.bsky.social and PA’s CRCQL, who shared how Vanguard’s investments are poisoning their air and making their communities sick
Check this out! From STMP and @eqat.bsky.social: Vanguard continues to cave to conservative pressure and refuses to acknowledge that climate change is a profound and systemic economic risk. #VanguardSOS buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/opin...
OPINION: Vanguard Caves to GOP Attorneys General, Sacrifices Our Climate Future in Legal Settlement - Bucks County Beacon
Vanguard has essentially agreed to abandon any future measures to fight climate change.
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New op-ed from EQAT's Communications and Research Manager, Eve, and @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social's Campaign Manager, Nancy, in the @buckscountybeacon.com!
Bucks County Beacon@buckscountybeacon.com · 5mo agoOPINION: Vanguard Caves to GOP Attorneys General, Sacrifices Our Climate Future in Legal Settlement | Vanguard has essentially agreed to abandon any future measures to fight climate change.
🚨 Fiona Greig, global head of investor research and policy at Vanguard‘s Investment Strategy Group, was presenting at the US Monetary Policy Forum this morning in NYC. So, we greeted attendees as they arrived for Greig’s panel. #VanguardSOS
The recent settlement in the case between Vanguard & a group of state attorneys general just underscores the chasm between Vanguard's values & action. Claiming passivity while financing fossil fuel expansion puts its customers’ futures at risk -- period. Read all about it: eqat.org/press-releas...
Recent Vanguard Settlement Underscores Chasm Between Asset Manager’s Values and Actions
Claiming passivity while financing fossil fuel expansion puts its customers’ futures at risk February 27, 2026 In response to yesterday’s settlement in the case between Vanguard and a group of Republi...
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EQAT Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Lina, recently led a nonviolent direct action tactics and strategy training in CT for over 80 open, curious, and experimental people. It was a pleasure – thank you to Don’t Destroy Our Future and Wilton Friends Meeting for cosponsoring the training!
Workshop TODAY: Immigrant communities are facing detention + ICE raids + militarized policing. Authoritarians wants us isolated. We are stronger together. Join us + @npnewamericans.bsky.social @ndlon.bsky.social @afsc-org.bsky.social: 🗓 TODAY ⏰ 6 PM ET / 3 PM PT 🔗 stmp.link/jediworkshop3
Did you know that over 1,700 institutions around the world have committed to divest over $40 trillion dollars from fossil fuels? That's close to half of global GDP!
We’ve moved over $57 million out of Vanguard because of its inaction on climate change – and that number will keep growing until Vanguard makes serious changes. 📈 And now we've got stickers that we want to share with you! Here’s how you get one:
EQAT is 15 years old! 🎂🎈🎉 Couldn't make it to our anniversary party in Philly? Here are some highlight moments from our panel of EQATers through the ages: youtu.be/8830WKAbm_g 📹 Filmed by Anthony, edited by Ray, background music is "Partly Sage" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
15 Years of Strategy, Spirit, and Song: A Celebration and Fundraiser for EQAT (*Highlights*)
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