Earth Quaker Action Team, or EQAT (pronounced “equate”), is a grassroots, nonviolent action group, including Quakers and people of diverse beliefs, who join with millions of people around the world fighting for a just and sustainable economy.
EQAT’s actions nonviolently confront the people who benefit from the current energy system, boldly challenging them to turn away from fossil fuels. EQAT uses nonviolent direct action because it works. Direct action has been crucial to the success of every major social movement over the last century. Direct action allows us to boldly challenge power and highlight injustice. As Dr. Martin Luther King elaborates in Letter From a Birmingham Jail, “nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”