EQAT in the News

Spotlight Action: Spring Hat Luncheon. Saturday May 4, 2013

Strip-Mining Protest Planned at Spring Hat Luncheon. Pittsburgh City Paper. Friday May 3, 2013
 
 

Spotlighting Kick-off Action at PNC's Shareholder Meeting. Tuesday April 23, 2013

Confronting the 1 percent directly. WagingNonviolence.org. May 7, 2013.
 
PNC Shareholders' Meeting Slammed With Environmental Protests. Allegheny Front. Friday April 26, 2013
 
PNC defends coal business loans, says they help economy. Triblive.com. Thursday April 25, 2013.
Protest shuts down PNC shareholder meeting. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Tuesday April 23, 2013
 
Protesters ready for PNC annual meeting. Pittsburgh Business Times. Tuesday April 23, 2013
 
Hecklers interrupt PNC annual meeting. TribLive.com. April 23, 2013.
 
5 Things to know for Tuesday in Pa. York-Daily Record. Tuesday April 23, 2013
 
Quaker protesters 'shut down' PNC annual meeting. Philly.com April 23, 2013
 
Quaker Group to Protest PNC Mining Investments. WESA.FM. Monday April 22, 2013
 
Earth Quaker Action Takes Direct Action Against PNC. WESA.FM. Saturday April 20, 2013
 
Environmental Protests for Earth Day. Pittsburgh City Paper. Friday April 19, 2013
 
 

Bill Mills Spotlight Action, Friday April 19, 2013

Quakers: Chamber of Commerce William Penn award to PNC exec smears our good name. City Paper. Thursday April 18, 2013.
 

Huffington Post

Eileen Flanagan, "The Few and the Many: Linking a Campaign to a Movement"

Boston.com The Big Picture
Coal: EQAT member, Gail Newbold, being arrested in slide # 46

Chestnut Hill Local
CH Friends to withdraw funds from PNC Bank. March 7, 2012

Daily Pennsylvanian
Penn group urges students to withdraw from PNC accounts. February 14, 2012
PNC talks policy with student protesters. January 24, 2012

EchoWatch.org
Quakers Fire PNC -- "The Green Bank." February 29, 2012

Friends Journal
Remember that You are Dust and to Dust You Shall Return by Dan Coppock. September 2011

Grid Philadelphia
Save the Mountains: Penn, Temple students meet with PNC over mountaintop removal. January 25, 2012

Huffington Post Blog, By Eileen Flanagan.
Green Your Money: Earth-Conscious Quakers Against Mountaintop Removal. February 28, 2012
Quakers Advocate Living in 'Right Relationship' with Creation.    October 8, 2010

It’s Getting Hot in Here
Quakers Hold Trial Inside PNC Bank Over Investments in MTR Coal Mining.  September 23rd, 2011
Quakers Take Action Against Mountaintop Removal Financing.  March 10th, 2011

New York Yearly Meeting Spark
Come Back to the Body by Walter Hjelt Sullivan, May 2011

Newsworks.org
Protest over mining blooms amid flower show. March 9, 2011
PNC meets with students over mountaintop removal lending. January 23, 2012
Three Temple students arrested during PNC Bank sit-in. December 1, 2011

Philadelphia City Paper
Man of Action  March 8, 2012
Quakers target PNC for funding mountaintop removal mining. September 22, 2011

Philadelphia Inquirer
Earth Quakers call for PNC withdrawals February 29, 2012 
19 Occupy Philadelphia members seek trial on charges of failure to disperse. December 07, 2011
Environmental protests on the rise. October 11, 2011
Protesters target PNC at Philly Flower Show. March 10, 2011

Temple News
Activists sit-in at Board of Trustees session. March 13, 2012 
Current, former protestors discuss campus causes.  February 20, 2012
Bridging mountains. January 17, 2012
Editorial: MTR mining. January 16, 2012
Activists meet with administrators to discuss cause, leave skeptical. December 13, 2011
Protest at campus PNC branch ends in three student arrests. November 30, 2011
Environmental activists continue campaign.  November 8, 2011
Activists rally at Board of Trustees meeting, speak with O’Connor, Hart. October 12, 2011
Group to rally BOT meeting. October 10, 2011

Waging Non-Violence
Reverend Billy preaches against MTR in PNC Bank occupation. April 4, 2011

Washington Post Online's On Faith Column By Eileen Flanagan.
A report on the session at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting that planted the seed that grew into EQAT.
A Religious Society of Friends of the Earth.    September 17, 2009