Building a just & sustainable economy through nonviolent direct action

ANNUAL REPORT 2013

Dear Friends of Earth Quaker Action Team,

The last 18 months have been an exciting time of connection and escalation for EQAT. As we acknowledge the people who made our work possible in 2013, we can’t help but give you a glimpse of how that work is continuing. We have expanded our connections with the broader climate-change movement, strengthened our ties with Appalachian activists, honored our elders, and supported youth leaders. We have escalated the number of same-day actions, the number of participants, our geographic range, as well as the degree of sacrifice we are willing to undertake as we keep pushing PNC to end its financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. Some highlights from these months include:

February: EQAT coordinated 6 buses—almost 300 people—from Philadelphia to Washing-ton, D.C. for the Forward on Climate Rally.

March-April: During a 40 day period, more than 50 people from around the country joined EQAT for one or more days of fasting, in solidarity with Appalachians resisting mountaintop removal coal mining, and in preparation for our action at the PNC shareholder meeting.

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GIFTS IN HONOR& MEMORY

Gifts given in honor or in memory of loved ones are deeply appreciated.

Gifts were made in memory of:Kristen AviziusAllen BaconRichard Ingalls BlountJoe KarpovMargaret S. McCoyEdward Webster

Gifts were made in honor of:Allen BaconEileen FlanaganRobin HarperWalter Hjelt SullivanPatricia D. HuntGeorge LakeyIngrid LakeyKaren LeitnerCarolyn McCoySam SnipesDick Taylor Kaz Uyehara

June: EQAT went international! British Quakers surprised PNC board member Jane Pepper while she was in England to lead a garden tour. They gave her chocolates, a book on gardening and a request that she use her influence to get PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining.

July: To deepen our understanding of the realities lived by those living in mountaintop removal areas, EQAT staff and members visited our allies in Appalachia.

August: EQAT led the first of 6 nonviolent direct action trainings for our Keystone XL Pipeline Action. This was a chance for EQAT to add our strength to the national fight to stop the Tar Sands Pipeline, while building relationships with new people in Philadelphia.

April: PNC Shareholder Meeting in Pitts-burgh: EQAT members asked each board member to end his/her support for mountain-top removal coal mining. Instead of standing up for human health and environmental pro-tection, PNC executives rushed through their agenda and ended the meeting in less than 20 minutes to avoid answering our questions.

October: Over 5,000 students from around the country converged on Pittsburgh for “Power Shift.” EQAT led nonviolent direct action trainings and the biggest bank branch action in U.S. history. We stopped “business as usual” at 16 different PNC branches. At one branch, the bank had seven of EQAT’s truth tellers arrested. The story was picked up by over 70 news outlets.

2013 PNC Sharehholder Meeting

7 Friends arrested at Power Shift

Power Shift Training

January: We celebrated and honored 5 EQAT elders, who modeled long-term activism and integrity.

March: Sweeping Out Corruption Keystone XL Pipeline Action: After a request from the national movement against KXL, EQAT led an action with our allies at the Philadelphia Federal Building. Close to 200 people participated. Twenty-nine were arrested for civil disobedience and more courageous people were prepared to do so.

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2013GIFTS IN-KIND

EQAT gratefully received generous in-kind support of professional services, housing, and accompaniment to traveling volunteers.

Howard Aikens & Christine Wolfe

Lucyna de BarbaroBarry BealSusan ChristianRosemary CoffeyClaudia DetwilerDannie DurandDawn LehmanNick Coles & Jennifer Matesa

Eliot Grace John Haer & Joni Rabinowitz

Rachel HarveyMike Healey, Healey & Hornack, P.C.

Elise KeatonMary King & Jim Morgan

Katey LauerLaura RigellEric & Summersgil Kurt Summersgil

Val VogelScilla WahrhaftigJunior WalkKay WetzelDustin WhiteIrma & Larry WolfsonPatrick Young

July: Over 200 people from across the United States came to PNC’s corporate headquar-ters in Pittsburgh, five busloads of them from the Friends General Conference Gathering in nearby California, PA. This worshipful action featured youth leaders, participants from ages 5 to 85—many of whom were taking their first nonviolent direct action—and several Friends who left ready to bring EQAT’s campaign back to their home communities.

Thank you for your support in 2013. Your financial contribution enables us to put our attention on developing effective and strategic actions to end mountaintop removal coal mining, a major contributor to climate change. We deeply appreciate gifts of all sizes. If you have not made a contribution yet in 2014, now is a good time to do so, as we gear up for our largest day of action yet on December 6. You should expect to hear about 20 or more actions from Indiana to New York to Florida!

With joy and gratitude,

EileenEileen Flanagan,Clerk of the Board

April: PNC moved their shareholder meeting from Pittsburgh, PA to Tampa, FL, where there happened to be young Friends already excit-ed about working with EQAT. The result was an intergenerational training collaboration at Southeastern Yearly Meeting’s annual sessions and a powerful action at the shareholder meet-ing that included 22 Floridians from 7 month-ly meetings. PNC executives rushed through their agenda even faster than the previous year.

Forward On Climate Rally in DC

PNC Shareholder Meeting in Tampa, FL

Ali AghbarHarry AlperNico AmadorAlison AndersonElizabeth Anderson and David Stahl

Anonymous (6)Jorge ArauzDora and Thomas ArmstrongRudy AviziusElizabeth AyscoughJesse BaconChris and Samantha Baker EvensGreg BarnesBrenda BeadenkopfManya BeanLela Betts and Rob CopeBruce Birchard and Demie KurzRichard BlandLina BlountJens Braun and Spee BraunJohn Braxton and Marcy MorganAllan BrickRobert Briggs and Virginia LohrRhoda BrooksRobert and Susan CampbellJeff CarpenterElizabeth Castiglione and Tom Hoopes

Lily CavanaghLorraine ClaggettJacqueline and Walt CleaverJessie CocksRosemary CoffeyDan CoppockElizabeth CroftsEllen DeaconAmanda DealVint DemingKate DeRielAnn DixonFrances DreisbachChristie Duncan-TessmerGeorge and Sue EdwardsMartha EdwardsMary Kay EdwardsClare EggersSteve ElkintonMark Eschbacher and Tish Molloy

Anna EverettsThe Evergreen FoundationMarjorie EwbankCarol FamarissPatricia FinleyAli and Karie FiroozmandEli Fishpaw and Kathy FoxDorothy Flanagan

Eileen Flanagan and Tom VolkertGail and John FletcherDiane and Joseph FosterPhil FurnasGeoffrey GardnerLola GeorgEsther GilbertAdam GoldmanMary GoldmanCharlotte and Chuck GosselinkRachel and Rick Grier-ReynoldsAnnabel and Harald GroteBarbara and David GroverJoe and Wanda GuthrieMarta GuttenbergJohn Haer and Joni RabinowitzJoel and Kerry HammonRobin HarperDavid and Jan HartsoughDavid and Harriet HeathJohn HeldingEmily HillHeather HillGayle HinebaughBobbie Hineline and Thomas Ljungman

Chris and Jack HjeltWalter and Traci Hjelt SullivanClaire HoferMary Ann HuberMary Anne HunterBonnie and David InouyeDonny IrvandyDeborah Jensen and Steven Malloch

Craig JohnsonGil JohnstonSara JohnstonStephanie Judson and Sandy ReaLee and Tony JunkerJanna KaneClaire KarpovJennifer Karsten and Michael Gagné

Frances and Howard KelloggGwendolyn KerberAmy KietzmanMeryl KliegerDick Kline and Molly Jones KlinePaula KlineHollister KnowltonSteven KretzmannBrad LairdBerit LakeyGeorge LakeyIngrid LakeyElizabeth and Taylor LambornJon Landau

John LaphamArthur LarrabeeMartha LatshawErika LaufferKaren LautzenheiserWill LawrenceMandy LeithPhilip LeitnerRyan LeitnerDavid LeonardAdam LevineEliza LewisSusanna LewisMordechai Liebling and Lynn IserIlona LindKandy LippincottZan LombardoAlice LongPat LongSteve LoughinJack MalinowskiBunty MarshallLou MartinJames and Jean MatlackAntje Mattheus and David KairysHannah MayerJohn McKinstry and Nancy Crickman

Patricia McBee and Brad SheeksLee McClenonCarolyn McCoy and Bill Sanderson

Sylvia MetzlerAnne MooreRobert MorrowErika MuhlenbergSharon MullallyDelores NelsonMarjorie NelsonDenis and Gail NewboldChris and Helen NicholsonJudith NortonIsabel OlmstedSally PalmerCraig and Deborra Sines PancoeJane PerlsteinKay PickeringPeggy PillardZandra PriceJennifer QuinnGreta RechDorothy ReichardtLee and Richard ReinertScott and Susan RhodewaltSally RickermanChris RobertsGwyn RobertsLiz Robinson

Mary Ellen RuggBen SafranMatt SandersonHollis ScarboroughMary SchellentragerJo SchlesingerTerry SchultzMarcy SchwartzM SchlotterbeckJoAnn Seaver and William Van Stone

Maynard Seider and Sheila Weinberg

Judith SheaCecilia B. SibingaPegi SiegelTim SiftarKathy SingerMarion Smith Snipes and Sam Snipes

Jonathon Snipes and Melanie Douty-Snipes

Niyonu SpannJonathan SproutLea StabinskiBill and Nancy StrongSharon SundialRobert SuttonMargo TassiDick and Phyllis TaylorConrad Trumbore and Virginia Ahrens

Ruth VaurioRuth WalmsleyCarol WalzRobert WardAmy Ward Brimmer and David Brimmer

Colleen WarminghamDonald WeightmanDebra WeinerMarianne WhitlockJudith WiegandSally WilloughbyJudy WintersNan Louise Wolfe and Stephen Zunes

Irma and Lawrence WolfsonJan WrightMary Yee and Paul Uyehara

Quaker InstitutionsChestnut Hill Friends Meeting Green Street Monthly MeetingHarrisburg Monthly MeetingMiddle School Friends, PYM

Generous Gifts in 2013

2013EQAT Board of Directors

Lina BlountEileen Flanagan, Incoming ClerkLola GeorgWalter Hjelt SullivanGeorge LakeyIngrid LakeyCarolyn McCoy, Outgoing ClerkLee ReinertM SchlotterbeckJonathan SnipesKaz Uyehara

StaffChris Baker Evens, Campaign Organizer (01/2013-present)Matthew Armstead, Staff Coordinator (04/2013-present)Amy Ward Brimmer, Executive Director (07/2012-06/2013)Daniel Hunter, Campaign Consultant (10/2012-04/2013)

I donate to Earth Quaker Action Team because I know that it is the best invest-ment I can make in a sustainable future for me and future generations. I know that we will not solve our climate crisis without faith communities, and EQAT is an incredible example of how faith can help us all be brave as we fight for a just and sustainable world. Donating to EQAT is an important way for me to sup-port the work that brings me hope.

2013 Annual Report Expenses & Donations

2012 2013Program Expenses (incl. salaries) $56,906 $75,513Fundraising Expenses $5,316 $7,328 Legal Fees $2,000 $396 Administrative Expenses $1,735 $7,585 TOTAL $65,957 $90,822

Donations $82,890 $86,973

Surplus/Deficit $16,933 -$3,849

I give to EQAT with gratitude. Not only because EQAT is trying to end an egre-gious practice that destroys our environ-ment and harms people and other living creatures, but because I have confidence in the people who are committed to this initiative. They bring integrity, passion, commitment and careful discernment to all their actions. In a very deep sense, I believe they are witnessing God’s love at work in the world.

*2013 included building administrative infrastructure. We shifted paid staff from consultants to employees, which added taxes and worker’s compensation to salary costs. We worked with an accoun-tant to begin using software that enables us to operate within a more complicated financial picture.

**In 2013, no arrestees went to trial and we received legal counsel at a significantly reduced rate.

Ryan Leitner

Lee Junker

GIVING STORIES

Program  Expenses  83%  

Fundaising  Expenses  

8%  

Legal  Fees  1%**  

Administra;ve  Expenses  

8%*  

2013  Expenses