Reaching 1 million listeners
We’re excited to share that EQAT has been featured in an episode of the national radio show, Reveal, produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting and aired on NPR stations. The episode is a deep dive into Vanguard’s choices to invest the savings of its tens of millions of customers in destructive fossil fuel projects. The show airs on over 500 radio stations across the country and reaches more than one million weekly listeners.
Maybe you’ve already heard it while listening to the radio. If not, you’re in luck because you can listen to the episode (or read the transcript) at any time from Reveal’s website.We hope you do! It’s a powerful piece that clearly lays out the connection between Vanguard’s investment decisions and the real harms that fossil fuel projects are causing people in frontline communities.
Please share the episode with someone you know who’d be interested in learning about the role of big investors like Vanguard in fueling the climate crisis and what the Vanguard S.O.S. campaign is doing to create change.
And once you’re feeling fired up, check out if you’re near any of the locations across the U.S. with Vanguard S.O.S. protests on Wednesday, October 9th and then RSVP to take action together! If there’s not an action near you, you can join from wherever you are for a virtual meeting for worship, also on October 9th, with attention to the day’s action-takers. And either way, make sure to sign the Never Vanguard pledge, if you haven’t already.
Vanguard leadership has been making active choices to buy fossil fuel expansion bonds, vote against sustainable action at its portfolio companies, and continue to invest in climate destruction – and that has real consequences in all of our lives.
This campaign is growing, and we can feel it. More and more people see that Vanguard, as the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels, has a responsibility to take action – so that we can all have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a safe climate in which to thrive, no matter where we live or how much money we make.
Photo above by Ray Bailey
