After five years of worshiping in bank lobbies and singing in the streets, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT – “equate”) has pushed the seventh largest bank in the U.S. into issuing a policy that effectively ends its investment in mountaintop removal coal mining.

Through personal stories from the design and execution of the EQAT campaign, author and activist Eileen Flanagan shares her own story of feeling led to engage in nonviolent direct action and how it has moved her from despair about the climate crisis to greater faith, hope, and involvement.