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Vanguard, Defund Climate Chaos!
Last Friday, as people in 26 countries across the globe took action targeting banks, insurers, and investors, we showed up at Vanguard’s headquarters to tell the company, “Defund climate chaos!” It’s clear that Vanguard heard our message loud and clear. Singing “Lead With Love,” we marched up to Vanguard’s entrance, where we rallied, heard from…
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Vanguard has a BIG Climate Problem
Last month, we announced that EQAT will be joining the Vanguard’s Very Big Problem Campaign – an international effort led by various activists and organizers around the world, all demanding that Vanguard divests from climate chaos. Who is Vanguard? Based in Philadelphia suburb Malvern, PA – Vanguard is the second-largest asset manager in the world,…
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Vanguard Investors, Don’t Move Your Money…Yet!
We recently announced that EQAT’s new focus is the Vanguard’s Very Big Problem campaign. We’ve been excited by the enthusiastic response, including from Vanguard customers eager to move their money to funds that are not financing climate catastrophe. That’s great! And the impact of that action will be much greater if we lay some groundwork…
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Climate Crisis Is Here – It’s Time to Transition
As rebels and campaigners for climate justice, EQAT set out to call PECO into action on the climate crisis. For the past six years, we’ve been pushing PECO to invest in our communities through local solar and green jobs. Because of our bold vision and actions, PECO has taken significant steps that have boosted the…
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Bearing Witness is Not Enough
Last month, EQATers came together to organize our neighbors in Norristown, PA to speak truth to power. This was our second action around PECO’s proposal to increase rates by 10% for our region – a decision that would overwhelm our low-income neighbors who have been hit with economic hardship from the pandemic and who feel…
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Stop the PECO Rate Hike Action — Norristown
By Amy Covill On July 20 I was eager to join EQAT members in another “Stop the PECO rate hike!” action. This one was in Norristown—not on the sidewalk outside PECO headquarters—and the goal was to inform folks about the 10% increase in rates PECO was requesting. The action was at 5:30 p.m., so I…