Earth Month protest

Sisters call U.S. representatives to demand attention to climate crisis

Sisters unable to visit the offices of of U.S. representatives Mike Kelly, major supporter of HB 1, which includes removing restrictions on fossil fuel industry and stopping states and towns from banning fracking, and Senators Casey and Fetterman, to express their concerns about the climate crisis, made phone calls to their offices from the monastery. Pictured are Sisters Carolyn Gorny-Kopkowski, Colleen Leathley, Margaret Zeller, Phyllis Schleicher, and Marlene Bertke.

Local news coverage of the protest on April 21 at the Federal Building itself is here