What are you looking forward to for the new year? At EQAT, we are thrilled that we will welcome Tabitha Skervin to EQAT as our new Campaign Director! Tabitha is a Jamaican-born organizer living on occupied Lenape territory, so-called West Philadelphia. They have eight years of experience organizing for social justice movements including climate justice,…
Dirty electricity is an assault on our communities and climate. Our region suffers from high rates of asthma, smog days, and increasingly hot and wet weather. These human-made crises steal our health, security, and economic opportunity, but they hit communities of color and economically vulnerable communities the hardest. PECO built this system and profits over…
At this week’s General Meeting, we announced that Kim has decided it is time for her to move on to new things and step down as EQAT’s Campaign Director. We are all extremely grateful for her leadership and the incredible work and vision she has brought to EQAT and to the Power Local Green Jobs…
We began the summer showing up at six rate-hike hearings to oppose PECO’s efforts to increase its enormous profits despite the ongoing crisis in energy shut offs, poverty, and dirty air that sickens our region. While that process continues, this week we are reaching out in different public settings to connect that story back into…
PECO has a problem. In March, severe storms fueled by the warming arctic caused as many outages as Hurricane Sandy. And chronic smog is getting worse in every county in our metro region and South Jersey. The culprit? Climate change and dirty power, with emissions from fossil fuels trapped in ever hotter air. Yet instead…
On Tuesday, May 1, a gorgeous spring day, a code orange ozone alert was issued in the Philadelphia region to warn children, the elderly, and people with respiratory illnesses to limit their outdoor activity. Ozone pollution from dirty energy suffocates our neighborhoods more than one out of every four days. That same day, Philadelphia ratepayers…
Each and every day, more than a million dollars flows out of our region as profit to the mega-utility Exelon, the corporation that owns PECO. Week after week, Exelon relies on millions of low-income ratepayers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Chicago and many other places to line its pockets while fighting against the green jobs and…
Two back-to-back storms just caused over a million power outages across our region. But many families face losing their power, or using less than they need, every month from poverty and unemployment. We won’t wait any longer. PECO has avoided meaningful action and passed off any responsibility. The company has put itself against the timeline…
One by one each volunteer stepped up to the shallow pans of water. Against a backdrop of security personnel, each one carefully leaned on two supporters and allowed a third to remove their shoes and socks and gently wash their feet. Eighteen times, Rev. Holston of POWER lay his hands on their backs and offered a…
“Lent is short and resurrection is coming soon.” You are part of a diverse campaign including folks who are religious and those who are not. But one thing that unites us is that we know we can act most powerfully when grounded in a vision of justice and transformation. At strategic times, a small group simply…
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