by Young Grguras | Dec 14, 2022 | Blog, STOP Recaps
“One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone”― bell hooks At the end of last year’s Students Taking on Oil & Petrochemicals (STOP) fellowship, our team went through a...
by Post-Landfill Action Network | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog, STOP Recaps
Another Students Taking on Oil & Petrochemicals (STOP) update incoming from our STOP Coordinator, Rachael! We’re quickly approaching the end of our STOP cohort this year, and I feel so lucky to have been able to work with this awesome group of students. Over the...
by Post-Landfill Action Network | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog, STOP Recaps
Hi, this is Rachael Hood. You might recognize me from last year’s STOP fellows! This year, due to the success of the program, we were able to expand and hire a coordinator to help run the program (that’s me). I grew up in Virginia and first got involved organizing...
by Post-Landfill Action Network | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog, STOP Recaps
For the last seven months, PLAN has been mentoring 6 students in the Ohio River Valley to support them in campaigns to eliminate plastic through our STOP: Students Taking On Petrochemicals & Plastic program. This work focused on the production stage of the Linear...
by Post-Landfill Action Network | Dec 2, 2020 | Blog, STOP Recaps
In September 2020, we had the great privilege of hiring six students at six different universities in the Ohio River Valley to challenge the oil and gas industry’s plans to turn this region into the next petrochemical corridor. This was made possible by the Funders...